Revisiting First Impressions
Rosalyn Collings Eves is our UP CLOSE Trips and Travels guest author today. She enjoys traveling, although she hasn’t been able to do nearly as much of this since becoming a mother to two young children: a four-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. When not trying to plan and execute child-friendly trips, she plays with [...]
Travels in the Islamic World
Today’s UP CLOSE trips and travels post comes from Melanie, who lives and works in the Washington, DC area. She loves planning trips almost as much as she loves taking them, and sometimes she has trouble remembering where she’s actually been and where she’s just dreamed of going. Most recently her travels took her to [...]
Peace, Love and Road Trips
“Punch buggy blue! No punchbacks, no bb shots.” “Punch buggy cerulean!” “Mom, he stole mine!” “Mom, she punched me!” “You didn’t say no punchbacks.” If you’ve been a passenger in my minivan sometime in the last six months, it probably comes as no surprise that I recently outlawed the punch buggy game. Last fall, on [...]








