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She said…
“i’d love the georgia book…we’ve moved 12 times in 10 years and we are NOT military 
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Congrats Elizabeth, look for an email coming soon!
One of the great things about being a military family is that you move, a lot. One of the bad things about being a military family is that you move, a lot. Actually, I like moving because it gives me a chance to clean out and de-clutter my house every two or three years. It has also allowed my family to live in a variety of places and visit many parks, museums, and attractions.
The hard thing about moving all the time is that you are always new to the area. We try to ask around for the best places to eat, shop, visit, and take a field trip or a day trip. Sometimes we stumble upon really great places and other times we wish we would have known more about the place before we arrived. We just never know. I also have a habit of spending hours (literally) on the internet researching places I have heard about to make sure it is something our family would enjoy.
Last week I got my hands on the book Kids Love Maryland. As I read through the book I kept thinking to myself, I wish these travel guides existed when I started my journey as a Navy wife 16 years ago. This book is a complete travel guide for the state of Maryland. The state is divided into geographical sections, and activities, as well as dining and lodging are highlighted for each area.
For each attraction, museum, or park there is a review given (with kids in mind) as well as information regarding hours, location, admission, phone number and web address. Many of the places listed have free admission which is great when families are trying to save money this summer. What I like best about this book (other than the web addresses) is that the authors George & Michele Zavatsky, have actually visited these places with their children. These are first hand reviews by parents!
My plan is to mark the pages of places I want to visit with post-it notes. Then I am going to hand the book over to my children and have them find some places they would like to visit. This book is going to become my handbook for the rest of the time I live in Maryland. I am already amazed at how many wonderful, educational, and free places there are to visit in this state. If my husband would let me I would have every weekend booked until the end of the year!
Not only have George and Michele traveled extensively throughout Maryland, they have visited many other states as well and have written twelve other travel guides. They have offered to giveaway one Kids Love Travel book (of your choice) to one of my readers! I was so excited when Michele offered to give one of her books away because I know you will absolutely love it!
Even if you are not a military family these books are great for anyone wanting to explore their state or planning a summer vacation. You will save time by using the Kids Love Travel book as your guide. I know many families cannot afford a summer vacation this year, but you can take fun day trips to places that are free and these books can help you locate the best places to visit for your family! These books are also excellent resources for home schooling families looking for fun, educational field trips to incorporate into their school year.
Here is how you can enter. Head on over to the Kids Love Travel website and check out all their travel books. They also have activity books for kids to work on while traveling and other fun stuff on their site. Leave a comment and let me know which Kids Love Travel book you would like to win. For a second entry twitter about this contest. You can also follow Michele on twitter @familytravelmom. Each of those things earns you another entry, but you must leave a separate comment letting me know you did them. The contest will end on Sunday, Cora time.
This post is linking to Talk about Tuesday and Things I Love Thursday.
I would of course get be interested OHio book!! LOL
Count me in for Kids Love Michigan!
All tweeted:
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What are You Doing This Summer? Here’s a giveaway with some ideas! http://tinyurl.com/p8fgq6
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I tweeted it!
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Kids Love Indiana! I’m tired of doing the same five things every summer…
Following @familytravelmom.
would love kids love california!
i follow you
These are great! Tough choice for us btw Pennsy & FLA…um…FLA!!
i tweeted
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Kids Love KY
Would love Virginia and D.C. for trips to visit the inlaws and hopefully we’ll get to live there in the next few years.
Considering this is our first summer in our new home, I would definitely love to get my hands on that Maryland book!!
Since we recently moved from MI to NY I was hoping for a NY edition. But no luck. But I’m sure I could make use of the MI or PA.
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/imadramamama/status/1769363676
I love traveling and I love these books! I highly recommend the I-75 one! I think if i were to win one.. I would love the Florida one because we are heading down there for vacation in the Fall! Fun stuff!
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Kids love Michigan!
Hello! This is my first time commenting, but I actually live on Meade as well and would LOVE to have a copy of Kids Love Maryland! I have an 18 month old son and with my husband working nights this summer, we will have many hot summer days to fill and I need ideas! Thank you!
And following @familytravelmom!
Indiana!!
I’d have to choose Florida (http://www.kidslovetravel.com/kids_love_florida.htm). We live in FL, but can’t get around much or easily at this time, so it would be nice to have a guide!
Toni talked about using colored post-it notes to mark the pages. What you may not know is that the paper we use to print the books is purposely strong enough to weather a storm of highlighting! Have each family member pick a different color highlighter to check what they like best. Or, mark the FREE things in Yellow, the OUTDOOR things in Green, the favorite HISTORY things in Blue, maybe FACTORY TOURS in bright ORANGE (my favorite hidden gems are factory tours). Try it and let me know your favorite way to mark the book to make it your own easy planner…
I would love the Kids Love Georgia book! Thanks for the chance to win one!!
I would love to have the Indiana book. I have lived in several parts of Indiana over the past 11 years but only know of a few really great things to do with the kids. Now that we are homeschooling this book would be a great benefit to my family. Thanks for the chance to win one.
Kids love Illinois, please! We’re military too, and though we’ve been here for a year already, I know there is stuff we’re missing out on. Plus, I love a good day trip! Thanks!
Kids love Michigan! We are planning a “staycation” this year. Thanks for the chance!
I’d love the Maryland one. We’ve lived here 3 years and haven’t seen many of the attractions here yet.
Ooh, Kids Love Ohio please!!
twittered! jessicablizzard
MOving a lot is NOT always fun, but it does make you knowledgeable about a lot of different things.
Sounds like you’ll have a great summer
I would love the Florida one! Of course, I would really love a Texas one!
But, we are planning on visiting Florida next year and don’t know what we are going to do yet!
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When I read your first sentence I was already saying the 2nd one in my head before i saw that you had written it.
Kid’s love Maryland
thanks
I would like the Kids loves Georgia or the North Carolina one.
Also I am following On twitter!
I would love to have the Maryland book.
I’d love the NC book!
I would very much like to win the Virginia book. We are new to the area and want to learn great places to visit within our area. Thank you!
Illinois would be the book for us!
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Yep, we’re Kids Love Georgia. I found the book a few months ago, & I’ve been steadily making plans for what to do this summer.
These look like great books! I would like the Kids Love Virginia book. My parents live in VA and, since we visit several times a year, we are always looking for fun places to take the kids. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
I would love the TN book. I have lived here my entire life and been very few places. Can someone explain to me how to use Twitter. I set up an account like 2 weeks ago, and I just don’t get it lol
I would love the Indiana book!!
Yay, there’s one for North Carolina! I’d love to win that.
I have seen those books and they are really nice to have for travel. I didn’t get the Florida one, because we have lived here so long, we already know where to go.
We will be doing a lot of hiking (we use the book 50 Florida Hikes), seeing free movies at the theaters, going to the beach.
What an awesome book! We’ve lived in Maryland now for a total of 6 years and thanks to letterboxing, we’ve found a lot of great spots around the state.
I’d love a copy of the Virginia book since we’re moving down there at the end of the month (I loved your first two sentences, btw.).
I just twittered about the contest.
@carissanboys
i’d love the georgia book…we’ve moved 12 times in 10 years and we are NOT military
i tweeted!
Man I wish there was a kids love Missiouri one. However we live close to Illinois so that would also be a definite option and a new experience too! Thanks for the giveaway!
*Shay B*
i’m following familytravelmom on twitter now
Thanks so much for this post. I live in Walorf, MD and I’m always looking for something to do. I plsn to purchase the MD book.
Kids Love Pennsylvania would be great if we end up moving there this summer.
I would like the North Carolina book!
I was thinking along the same line I want to take my kids on a trip to springfield for some history about the state they live in
I would love to have a copy of Kids Love Georgia!
Michigan!
I would love the Florida one- we are headed there this summer for vacation!
I would choose the Indiana Book. What a great giveaway to give families ideas for cheap/free vacations.
Would love to get “Kids love North Carolina”! I was just talking to my friend about taking my kids on some day trips to visit famous sites in North Carolina, but that I didn’t know which ones we would enjoy the most. Just a couple hours later she forwarded this link! What a great way to make plans!
Virginia and DC!
I would love the Colorado book!
We have the Pennsylvania book and would love the Ohio book.
I was just wondering what I was going to do with the kids this summer. I would love the Georgia book! Thanks!
I’d love to have the Kids Love Florida (since we just moved here) or Georgia. Those are really cool books. Awesome Giveaway thanks!
I don’t have children so don’t need these books (yet) but I read your post and was thinking. I don’t know where in Maryland you are, but a friend of mine writes a fabulous blog called ‘A Parent in Silver Spring’ that is all about what to do with your kids, she trys them out, sends when they have specials etc. I desperately wish that we would live in the same town when I do have kids because I keep thinking how easy it would make my life. So if you are anywhere near there, here is the URL and I hope it helps!
http://www.aparentinsilverspring.com/
Meredith
I would love the Michigan book, then later I think I would want to buy the ohio book. Definitely a fun find.
I don’t have too many plans for the summer yet, but it looks like you have some fun stuff in mind.
I DO know that I will be diving in deep to figure out everything I can about homeschooling next year…that will probably be my main “project”!
I’d love the MI book, we live in MI and would love to learn about fun things to do that are relatively close to home. Thanks!
I’d love the Kids Love Virginia and DC book!
thanks!
Retired military wife here! (Love Maryland & DC) My kids are grown but I would give this book to our moms book at church.
Our military family moto was, “We don’t go vacation. We just move there!”
Following @familytravelmom
thanks!
I would like the Tennessee book. I wish they had more states!
I would love to get the Georgia one! Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
I’d LOVE to win the Kids Love Maryland book! We’re a military family living in MD as well!
These look like fun. And she spells Michele the right way! Thanks for the link. I’d love the Kids Love Florida one. Thanks!
I’d love the Maryland book!! Pick me Pick me!
We are a military family PCS’ing in 5 short weeks to Virginia, so we would like Kids Love Virginia! I checked out the video on the site everything sounds amazing!
Thanks!
My brother and his wife just had their first baby in August. They had only lived in Tennessee for a short time so I would like to get Kids Love Tennessee so they can explore with my nephew.
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We’d love the Illinois book. Thanks!
Florida!! Please coastie Family in dire need of some cheap entertainment!!
I would love to win the Kids Love Tennessee book. We recently moved to Northern Mississippi, about 5 miles outside of Memphis Tennessee. Since there is not a book about Mississippi, Tennessee is the next best thing. We would love to learn all about the area, We are having the same problem you have when you move a lot. Thanks
I love these books. I would love OHIO!!!! So exciting that they have it!
Kids Love Indiana!
They don’t have one for our state, Louisiana, or for any of the states that we visit regularly so I would like the “Kids Love Travel Memories” book.
I’ve lived in North Carolina for almost 7 years and I still have no clue what this state has to offer! I would love the Kids Love North Carolina travel book. Thanks for this great giveaway!
I could sure use the Kids Love Ga book!!
I would like the Ohio book!
I would like the Kids Love Florida book
Having fun around our town/Smoky Mtns….going to the zoo, playing outside and gearing up for our first year of homeschool!
Kids love Florida. Thanks!!
My state (OKLA) isn’t listed, but we visit IL frequently enough because my husband’s family lives there. So, if I were to win that’d be my first pick, second pick of first wasn’t available would be PA because that’s where I’m original from and where all my family lives. (We just don’t get to visit there as often.)
Now following @familytravelmom on Twitter via my @monkeygirlsmama account. Thanks!
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I would definately love the Michigan book! We travel to a couple of places regularly but it would be fun to take some time getting there and learn along the way! The big activity book would be great, too, for those long car trips to keep them from arguing! Thanks!
I would love to have the Kids Love Indiana book! Our family is getting ready to become a foster family so the more interesting and inexpensive things I can find for us in Indiana the better
We would love kids love Michigan! Thanks!
Kids love Illinois. Thanks for the giveaway!
Ohio please! We’re always struggling to come up with great day trip ideas. And, these books really do look great. Thanks for the tip!
I would choose Kids Love Michigan
My family is going TDY with my husband in just a few weeks to Florida! Wow, this will be a great resource for our family while we are there.
I would choose Kids Love Illinios
We are always looking for fun weekend trips. I do not see a NY book, so I would choose the Kids Love Pennsylvania book.
I would love the Kids Love Michigan!
We would love the kids love i-75 being from multiple states this would be great
Michigan for me!! These look great. We love road trips here.
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I like kids love Maryland & DC. We don’t live there but its close by.
my kids love oregon
I would love to own the Indiana book!!!
Thanks for info on this book series. I just bought the North Carolina one through Amazon – it’s free Prime shipping if you have that. They look great!