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Family
Adventures
When I was 14 my grandmother
took me out West, to see the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.
I celebrated my sixteenth birthday in England, exhilarated to discover
that the Beatles and I shared the same planet. Now I want to share special
places with my nieces and nephew, and have already used trout fishing to lure my
father into conversations we wouldn�t have on familiar terrain.
Travel
is a chance to escape - often back in time- to revive our childlike awe and
dreams.
 Having
young traveling companions allows us to see the world anew. It is also an
ice-breaker with people of other cultures, who may not speak your language but
will open up to you because they, too, have children.
Think
of Family Adventures as an investment, because this kind of travel is.
By encountering wildlife in its natural habitat, and mentors in the form
of conservationists and park wardens, you may inspire a career in science,
eco-journalism, wildlife veterinarian, photography, paleontology, botany,
zoology, or conservation. Special
Interest Tours can provide encounters with TIME magazine Heroes of the Planet,
such as Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, or author Cynthia Moss,
head of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project. See
Touch a Cheetah and my People & Places guide How
To Watch Elephants.
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