Family Travel

Streams in the Willow is an allegorical rendering of the inexorable link between this world and the next, between this generation and those who have gone before. Dramatized by an actual diamond ring that has been passed down five generations in the author's family, the stains of Original Sin are presented as obstacles each of us faces alongside those who came before us. The path to overcoming the Original Sin in each of our individual families is first to acknowledge it.

KJ is a small town boy who moves from Greenville, Mississippi, to Chicago. He is mesmerized by the big city, bright lights, skyscrapers, and basketball. He finds interest in Paulina, a pretty brown skin girl in his fifth grade class. Hanging out with the older boys in the neighborhood leads KJ on the path to dropping out of school. He quickly forgets the promise he made to his grandmother to stay on track and make her proud.

Every weekend, KJ wanted to spend the weekend at his granny's house. But granny had specific house rules: 9:00, the kitchen is closed, and 9:30, lights are out and KJ is to be in bed. When KJ disobeys his granny's house rules, he finds himself trapped in the belly of the Milk Monster.

Discover how to travel full-time as a single mom! How can you afford it? How will your child get an education? Do you know how unsafe it is to travel with just your children? The pushback single moms get when the topic of traveling comes up can be overwhelming! And it’s not just your well-meaning friends and family. Sometimes, it’s your own self-doubt that prevents you from pursuing your dreams of being a leaf in the wind and traveling the world to your heart’s content.

The Baltimore Clipper ship Frolic was bound from Canton, China, to San Francisco with household goods for gold miners. The shipwreck of the Frolic lead to the founding of the town of Mendocino, California, and the discovery of redwood trees. We speak with archeologists who are studying this important early California event. The Frolic Shipwreck is now a California Underwater State Park.

Fort Ross State Park California. Fort Ross, was a Russian Fur Trading Outpost between 1812 and 1841, never a military fort. Original builds and replicas tell of a short lived Russian history in California. Fort Ross is one of the oldest parks in the California State Park System.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

The National Capital Commission of Canada has the mission and the mandate to build the Capital Region around Ottawa as a source of pride and unity for Canadians. One place the NCC accomplishes its goals is at Gatineau Park in Chelsea Quebec, across the Ottawa River from Ottawa, Canada's capital city. It's February when we explore Gatineau Park, across the Ottawa River from Ottawa.

In the Southern Highlands of El Salvador, 2,600 years ago, a clay terrace was built on the side of a mountain. Today, the fan shaped terrace is covered with a thick layer of earth and artifacts belonging to the people who built and used this important ceremonial site. The site is also covered with hundreds of coffee trees, belonging to the Santa Leticia Gourmet Coffee Farm.

Lake Itasca is the undisputed headwaters of the Mississippi River Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Native Americans living in the pine forests, led white explores to the source of the mighty Mississippi River. It was a European explorer that named the source or headwaters of the Mississippi in Latin, it was the Native Americans who named the Mississippi River in their own language. Find out how, at the Grand Opening of the Jacob Brower Visitor Center celebration in Itasca State Park.

Audio Journeys is in Holbrook, Arizona, exploring a private collection of pictographs and a museum of artifacts available only through private tours. The pictographs in the steep red rock canyons tell stories of an ancient way of life. We are with our Payson Adventures Guide.

Audio Journeys explores the Maya Music Museum in La Antigua, Guatemala, with the museum founder and director. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys are exploring the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennesse. Forty-one years ago on April 4 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee to join the city's sanitation workers' striking for better working conditions and pay.

Audio Journeys are exploring Quebec City, Quebec in early February during their Annual Winter Carnival, the largest winter carnival in the world.

Underground Railroad Circle of Hope. Our exploration of the Undergound Railroad continues in Auburn, and includes Harriet Tubman's Home, now a museum. In Auburn New York’s capital, Harriet Tubman lived her older less dangerous years. During the dangerous years, Harriet Tubman was a major part of the Underground Railroad; she helped at last one thousand enslaved people escape to freedom.