In our first site interview with a seasoned geocacher, Road Trips for Families interviews Dominique King (GroverZ) about her caching experiences, her travel bugs, and some of her most interesting finds.

Columbia, Missouri, fondly known as the Athens of the Midwest, is a cultural mecca of art, education, and fine dining with friendly, small-town flair. Bring the kids, come hungry, and visit some of these popular dining spots the next time you’re passing through the area.

Keeping the summer going all winter long, the Wisconsin Dells is the Midwest’s #1 tourist destination, and TripAdvisor recently ranked it America’s top family destination, and third in the world. Road Trips for Families visited the Wilderness resort and got a lot wet and a little wild!

This week, there’s snow in Dillon, Colorado. Enough of it (man-made and otherwise) that Keystone Resort opened its gates earlier this month, and skiers took to the slopes. Three weekends back, however, the sun was shining, and it was a toss up whether or not to wear a jacket. . . . For us, it was the perfect time to try geocaching.

Recently presented with the opportunity to review the Kodak Play Sport camera, we tossed it in our suitcase for a wild and wet weekend in The Wisconsin Dells. From underwater stills to footage down the water slide, a waterproof camera is a fun way to capture new family memories, water and all!

Moving through a forest canopy like Tarzan was something I associated with television until recently when I found myself on a 35-foot-tall tree platform with a rope in my hand ready to jump off and swing more than a bowling alley length to a large net. Could I do this?

Southern dining means different things for different families. For some, it’s a multi-generational Sunday tradition and for others it’s all about the food. In Corinth, Mississippi, family dining is varied, plentiful, and worth checking out with your own kids in tow.

Are your holiday cards addressed and ready to mail? Consider taking a road trip to Santa Claus, Indiana to send them. This small-town post office is the only one in the world with the Santa Claus name and receives over 400,000 pieces of mail in December. The Santa Claus Post Office has offered a special “picture postmark” every holiday season since 1983.

Most travelers think of heading to a vacation rental with the family for a summer beach vacation. However, the winter can be a great time to stay in a vacation rental, too.

This week’s guest post is by Vera Marie Badertscher, a freelance travel writer. When she isn’t traveling, she reads about travel, and she shares her reading at her blog A Traveler’s …