by Annie Thomas | May 12, 2022 | Family Travel, Midwest Travel, North America
If you are a resident of the Midwest and feel the pressure of limited time opportunities for family trips, the planned winter break most schools take over the new year seems like an obvious chance. A quick search turns up exorbitant prices and can dishearten those...
by Annie Thomas | Apr 19, 2022 | Family Travel, Itineraries, Midwest Travel, North America
The Midwest boasts many foods that are either uniquely found only in the Midwest or copied without success in other places. You can enjoy many of these food items year round, but summer through harvest season will yield the widest availability. Since the Midwest...
by Annie Thomas | Jun 29, 2021 | Family Travel, Itineraries, Midwest Travel, North America
Having grown up just ninety minutes from Iowa City, I had no idea what a special gem was in close proximity. It wasn’t until my teens that I visited for the first time and eventually led to spending my college years in this Eastern Iowa community. Every time...
by Annie Thomas | Mar 17, 2021 | Midwest Travel, North America
The state of Iowa is home to several luxurious, historic and distinctive hotels worthy of a weekend visit. Many of the featured hotels have taken an architecturally significant downtown building and given it new life. Others are luxury built specifically to serve...
by Annie Thomas | Feb 2, 2021 | Family Travel, Hiking, Midwest Travel, North America, RV Travel
Midwesterners are not known to boast and we even have the term “Iowa Nice” to describe how we treat others. Because of this humility, it’s easy to overlook our own beautiful public parks and their campgrounds when consider traveling. This list...
by Annie Thomas | Jan 5, 2021 | Family Travel, Midwest Travel, North America, Resources, RV Travel
With road trips as popular as ever, having a few games in your pocket can give parents more confidence for long days in the car. Especially as families transition from babies and toddlers to “big kids”, finding a way to keep everyone’s’...
