Candyce H. Stapen is an award-winning travel journalist and author. As travel editor/producer at USA TODAY, Stapen launched the company’s digital travel sites. Her work appears in many outlets, including the Washington Post and Frommers.com. Candyce has written thousands of articles and 29 books about family travel, including two for National Geographic. She founded non-profit Henny’s Kids to bring solar-powered laptops and computer training to rural elementary schools in Africa.
Candyce raised her family in Washington, D.C., and currently resides there with her husband and Lily, a Newfoundland.
With a new regime in charge following Robert Mugabe’s demise, Zimbabweans, as well as many visitors, remain guardedly hopeful. For too many years, tourists substituted Zambia for Zimbabwe on their southern African itineraries, but once an expansion of Victoria Falls International Airport enabled more flights and wide-body aircraft to land, arrivals surged 25% in the… Read More
Cities are exciting family destinations. On an urban vacation, you and your children can choose from such adventures as building a robot, touching a moon rock, listening to nose flutes, and meeting walruses. At urban parks, you can do most of the same things you can do in the wilderness: walk, hike, bike, snowshoe, cross-country… Read More
Multigenerational trips are a rising travel trend, and that makes sense. A vacation between grandparents, kids, and grandkids gives extended families time together without the expectations of holiday gatherings, and with so many vacation schedules to juggle with quality time, families are finding it easier to simply see each other while they relax. To help… Read More
No matter how many photographs you’ve seen, the Grand Canyon will surprise you with its dramatic beauty, awesome vistas, and fascinating natural and cultural history. Start with its size: the canyon stretches for 277 miles with an average width of 10 miles and a depth of one mile. But it’s not just the size that… Read More
When our culinary tour guide for Berlin shows up wearing a T-shirt emblazoned “Nobody reads your blog,” we know this isn’t going to be another boring foodie tour. The goal of the insider Gastro-Rallye tour, says leader Henrik Tidefjard, “is to showcase Berlin as an international creative city. It’s not about kebabs, sauerkraut or pigs’… Read More
Street art, a visual marker of Berlin’s iconoclastic spirit, dominates Kreuzberg and other neighborhoods. The stylized tags (signatures), cartoonish characters, vibrant colors, and mega-size murals that erupt on walls and doorways enliven the facades — or defile them — depending on your point of view. Berlin has long been known for this stealth art, one… Read More
Carnival Cruise Line’s second Vista-class vessel Horizon debuted in April 2018. With this ship Carnival tweaks its successful Vista formula by adding new restaurants and musical revues, plus a Dr. Seuss-themed splash park. Although smaller than Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas— a 5,500 passenger behemoth that launched the same month– Horizon offers13 entertainment venues,… Read More
Think differently about family getaways this autumn. Instead of looking at leaves through a car window, find new ways to surround yourself with the brilliant colors of September, October, and November, whether it’s by gliding through treetops on a zip line, pedaling along country paths, or paddling canoes on mellow rivers. These favorite getaway ideas,… Read More
The Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Cruise Line’s largest Breakaway Plus-class vessel, debuted in spring of 2018. The ship adds a new set of active pursuits to NCL’s formula of multiple dining venues with eat-when-you-want seatings.
We drove in search of storybook villages, historic palaces, vineyards and Franconian wine. Wurzburg and Nuremberg, the big cities in Germany’s Franconia, a region in the state of Bavaria, are well worth exploring, but don’t miss less-visited Volkach and Bayreuth. Volkach put us in the heart of a major winegrowing district and Bayreuth delivered gilded… Read More
The Bayreuth Synagogue looks little like a Jewish house of prayer. “The president of the Opera House in 1965 didn’t want the Shul. He was president of the Opera House in the Nazi time,” said Felix Gothart, chairman of Bayreuth’s Jewish community. “He forced us to change the facade, saying ‘One should not recognize there… Read More
On a peninsula in southern Maryland, jutting out into the Patuxent River on one side and the Chesapeake Bay on the other, this community is for those who relish being near the water’s edge. Rows of boats gently bobbing in the water, their white hulls gleaming in the sun, dot the Solomons Island harbor. Pleasure… Read More
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