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Travel links round-up

I want to thank all of the blog carnivals that included my blog posts in the past few weeks — we’re all over the blogosphere.

This week’s Carnival of Cities on the IgoUgo travel blog featured Family Travel’s Get rubbed the right way in London, about the London Brass Rubbing Centre.  They also included a Perceptive Travel blog post about the amazing Renninger’s Flea Market down in Mount Dora, Florida (near Orlando; it would make a fun side trip from you-know-where.)

I enjoyed a quick “trip” to India from this carnival:

  • “India:  Alfa King writes from his home in Mauritius, but his mind is squarely in India as he demystifies Divali so we too can enjoy the Hindu holiday with a delicious gâteau batate.
  • Goa, India:  Blogger Sidhusaaheb, on the other hand, is actually in India, where he introduces us to Goa through the city’s often overlooked villas.”

The Principled Discovery blog hosted the 97th Carnival of Homeschooling; it featured the Family Travel post about 7 museums where history lives (a worldwide tour of living history museums.)

Principled Discovery did a great job of taking lots of submissions about all aspects of homeschooling and turning them into sort of a “curriculum.”  I liked the ones on art and music in education:

On November 1st we went Blogtipping, and I posted about three blogs that I’ve found and enjoy.  The Blogtipping Guru himself, Easton Ellsworth, was kind enough to mention it on his Business Blogwire blog.  Thanks also go out to November tippers  Sizlak, Sandy Renshaw, Drew McLellan, Melonie and Rob O.

The Carnival of Family Life – Bonfire Edition commemorated Guy Fawkes Night, and also featured the FT post Is there any doubt about car seats and air travel?

Finally, I’m a little late, but my “frustrated traveler” post entitled I’m paying HOW much to be unimpressed? over on the Perceptive Travel blog was featured in the Customer Service Carnivale “Gumbo Edition.”

For travelers who drink all of that bottled water, I was struck by a post on the Customer Service Carnivale that was written by Charles H. Green, Customers and Bottled Water: It’s the Coverup Not the Crime.  Charles says, “One of the trickiest problems for customer service is when marketing has sold a product as something it really isn’t.”

Thanks for all of the great links and carnival action.

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Drag racing and blog carnivals

I’m up near Dallas tonight, ready to hop out of my hotel bed tomorrow and start working the finishing touches on a Texas drag racing story that I’m writing for Texas Highways magazine. The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Fall Nationals will be held at the Texas Motorplex this weekend, and your trusty correspondent is also covering them for the Fast Machines motorsports blog.

Yes, you can take your kids to a drag race, and it’s a lot of fun!

There has also been some interesting writing this week in the diverse world of blog carnivals.

My post on a special event for homeschoolers in Colonial Williamsburg was featured in the homeschooling blog carnival.

If you’re curious about homeschooling, check out these posts and descriptions from the carnival:

** Summer M presents Homeschooling As a Class Issue posted at Mom Is Teaching. Choosing to live on one income isn’t just for the wealthy.

** Dana presents Revealing the secrets of homeschooling, how I get it all done posted at Principled Discovery.

** In Homeschool Record Keeping, Patti of All Info About Homeschooling looks at several ways to match your need for accurate documents with your level of organization and your family’s balance of chaos.

** Annette Berlin presents Don’t Neglect Art posted at Homeschooling Journey saying, “Most homeschooling parents consider art a “back burner” kind of subject. They get to it only when there’s nothing more important to do. And even then, they do just enough to satisfy their state’s regulations. Not me.”

** DeputyHeadmistress presents Out of Doors Play posted at The Common Room. “Children who aren’t handling wood and clay, sand and water, bricks and acorns, leaves and grass, and other such stuff because they are too busy inside in a sterilized, sanitized environment lit by artificial lights and enhanced by artificially created noises, the beeps, sings, and whistles of computers and cartoons- these kids are not figuring out what to do with the things they learn.”

** In Unsocialized or Socialized, Jocelyn of Lothlorien wonders why homeschoolers are often taken to be unsocialized. Well… after a trip to the grocery store and a run-in with a very unsocialized teenager, it made her wonder… Do people really know what they’re talking about?

** Lynn tackles The Socialization Red Herring posted at Homeschool2.0 Blog. After 17 years of homeschooling, she sees the socialization concerns and objections as being lamer than ever.

Additionally, my post on Hispanic Heritage Month travel options was featured on the Carnival of Family Life. For more family thoughts:

** I liked the Veteran Military Wife‘s thoughts on Tent Camping with the Scouts at Ft Desoto Beach (in Florida) since it’s “Camping tips for non-campers.”

** A road trip is one of my favorite activities; I checked out Jody DeVere’s Road Trip Survival Guide posted at Ask Patty – Automotive Advice for Women.

Finally, the Carnival of Cities had its debut in Dubai on the Sandier Pastures blog, and included my post about a Chicago River architecture cruise. I’ll highlight the carnival’s posts about Europe:

** Sognatrice takes us Into the heart of Calabria: benvenuti a badolato! in Bleeding Espresso.

** Liz Lewis presents the basics of Segway travel in Madrid on Two Wheels, The Segway Tour posted at My Year of Getting Published.

** Hairy Swede shares his Triumphant Return to Student Life in Uppsala posted at A Swedish American In Sweden.

If you want to see more, click on through and read each carnival’s full set of entries.

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