NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations: Stories that Take You Away Audiobook (Free)

With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but towards the individuals who inhabit them-and seek them out. Each tale focuses on real locations, true people, and true background in the thought-provoking, imaginative and amusing way you’ve arrive to expect from NPR.We all have memories of family members vacations-some successful, some less so, and some gone terribly awry. When it comes to reporting about NPR Street Trips: Family Vacations: Stories that Take You Away colorful, compelling tales of family vacations, no one will it better than Country wide General public Radio. Originally noticed on WITH THAT SAID and Morning Edition, the stories gathered here are interesting, provocative and moving. Like Laura Lorson’s “Hard-Earned Lessons from your Family Street Trip,” in which she recalls unlimited hours in a hot car, eating processed foods and hearing AM radio. And “Establishing Sail with Family, Defects in Tow,” Marion Winik’s account of a not-so-perfect family members reunion at ocean. And “Family Camping,” in which commentator Joel Achenbach points out that camping is definitely a significant sport. NPR knows that everyone has a fantasy vacation, but most of us are settling for economic-reality holidays. Therefore Tom Goldman asks, “Who Needs a Luxury Cruise If You’ve Got Inner Tubes?” And when Robert Smith discovers the price of Broadway seat tickets to The Little Mermaid ($121 each!), he requires a even more frugal path, piling the family members into his Honda Civic and heading to the drive-in. Warmly kept in mind, richly detailed, these stories invite you to share in the journey of others-and may inspire you to program your own.