Other parents can't deal with the exhaustion of driving through the night and staying up the next day with energetic children, and would rather plan a kid-paced daytime drive to their destination, even if it means more days on the road. Know yourself and what kind of schedule will best suit you, and your family. If you're into tangible memories, bring along a small photo album that you or your kids can slip postcards into as you travel. Another idea is to bring a three-ring binder that you can fill with reclosable plastic bags for collecting little items like admission tickets and other mementos. Also, you can get blank postcards from the post office and have kids draw their impressions of a place on them.
Parents share strategies that help make trips with teens enjoyable.
Here's a list of suggestions gleaned from several sources. Not if you're vacationing with kids. With dozens of new hotels, restaurants swathed in their best linen and museums, there isn't a better place to visit on the Mediterranean. If you want to spend part of your vacation a step back in time, try Charleston, S.C., with its Southern gentility, antebellum homes and a very walkable historic district and fort. When you tire of the bright lights and big city, there's a place, just two hours by car from Las Vegas, where eons light the way and silence is the only music.