Single Parent Travel

Dear SPT Readers, At last a long overdue travel blurb is ready for your read.  My travels this past year have taken me mostly throughout the USA so I have some great family travel tips for you for some fly/drive or driving vacations. My daughter Monique was married this past May in a gloriously beautiful [...]

We are chugging along on our redesign.  Part of me wanted to wait until all ideas and features could be implemented, but being the impatient (or is that in-patient) sort, we rolled out what we had and will be adding new features as they are tested.  But I wanted to give you an update and [...]

Allow me to think and type for a moment… This past year, we have done more and more individual trips than in years past. We understand that our group trips do not always coincide with your school, camps, work schedule, combative ex spouse, etc. So, we want to try and do something about it and [...]

Greetings!  Hopefully this weekend will show a new face for our website!  So, if you check in and it looks a little different or funky–that’s OK. If all goes well, all the content will still be there–you may need to look for it a little differently, but we are excited about the new look. The [...]

Here is a taste of what lies in wait for you on our 2011 Harry Potter journey. This is not a video of our last SPT trip (we did not have the technology back then) but one supplied to us by HP Fan Trips.

I discovered this this morning and it was very funny–and quite true. But you know what, I would not give it up for a million bucks!

* Except the deadbeat ones!

The 110-year-old, family-owned Bayview Wildwood Resort is one of the closest lakeside getaways to Toronto.  Situated in the historic lakefront village of Port Stanton on the shores of Sparrow Lake, the resort is just minutes away from the port city of Orillia. Modern conveniences and comfortably appointed lake view accommodations ranging from suites to four [...]

I will gladly admit my photography and video skills leave a lot to be desired as was evidenced in the last video I took at the Rocking Horse Ranch.  But thanks to the wonders of YouTube and some unknown strangers, I found this well put together clip of the ranch and they explored it a [...]

One of my favorite sayings is that whenever you are feeling down and things can’t get much worse, just turn on Jerry Springer and all of a sudden life will be grand!  I may be broke, out of a job, and have a car that needs to be replaced, but at least I am not [...]