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By Clint Parker This past week my family and


I took our first vacation since last fall. It got me to think- ing that maybe I should write a series on vacations that might help someone else with what I learned. This will be my first in a series of seven articles about everything from planning vaca- tions to booking hotels to travel arrangement to food and enter- tainment. To be fair, I acknowledge I am


not a great planner or an expert on travel. But this vacation did help me


learn what to and what not to do when planning and enjoying a vacation. Usually, most of our trips are to the beach or Disney- World in Florida, but this trip was different in that we stayed in two different places and vis- ited three cities: Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City. During this series, I plan to


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write about planning and mak- ing arrangements, expenses, food, sightseeing and other les- sons learned. I hope that this series will be


helpful to you or, at least, enter- taining to hear what happened to me as one ordinary person planning and executing a family


vacation. Editor’s note: This is the first


article in a series of seven.


Vacation Tips


Taking a vacation: What I learned


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