In the 1930′s dog sledding was a popular family getaway. Today, your kids will be hard pressed to find many classmates who have jumped in the basket and mushed a team of dogs. But there are a handful of vacation destinations that are all about the dogs.

Anyone new to Organ Piper Pizza in Brookfield, Wisconsin (Western Milwaukee Suburb) will notice two things right away…a full house and a smile on every face. It’s fun to watch them take it all in. The lights, the games, the crowd. And, then, the giant Wurlitzer pipe organ on the far side of the room. And by giant, I mean all-encompassing in a non-invasive way.

The new Olympus FE-4020 ($149.99) and FE-47 ($119.99) models must have been designed with road trips in mind. They come with 14 megapixels and up to 5x optical zoom as well as a host of on-camera features to make taking pictures simple — no matter what.

When going fast on the snow using traditional things like skis, snowboards and snowmobiles gets old, apparently one takes water sports and applies them to frozen water. According to Randy Ericksen, one of the writers of the Black Hills Travel Blog, the latest trend is snow kayaking.

I lived in Wisconsin for five years. Until recently, I thought I knew cheese. Heck, my arteries are probably as hard as a cheese hat at a Packer’s game in late November. Then, one day last summer my neighbor Tracy, from St. Louis (as in Missouri!), introduced me to a little thing called provel cheese.

Winter driving usually means trying to avoid snow, but visitors to Togwotee Mountain Lodge, a mountain resort nestled high above Jackson Hole, WY in the mountains of the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Yellowstone National Park, come for the hundreds of inches of fresh powder each year.

This year’s extra-cold winter weather had us thinking about what road tripping families need to really enjoy some of the scenery that such weather creates. It’s also a lot more enjoyable to burn off some of that energy by hiking, and there are some spectacular winter hikes right now.