Join the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) for a spe­cial Chicago archi­tec­ture river cruise on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 4pm to cel­e­brate North Michigan Avenue’s Festival of Lights.

St. Louis Author, Dean Klinkenberg, vir­tu­ally lived in the Quad Cities in the sum­mers of 2007 and 2008 explor­ing any place that might inter­est vis­i­tors. The John Deere fac­tory tour reduced him to a giddy 10-year old; and neigh­bor­hood bars intro­duced him to the daily lives of Quad Cities’ res­i­dents. Festivals, the arts, attrac­tions, and his­tor­i­cal research kept him busy fill­ing the pages of what would become a detailed and information-packed Quad Cities travel guide.

Time to plan that  next dream vaca­tion, and with Lonely Planet’s new Japan Travel Guide it is eas­ier than ever!
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As trav­el­ers with kids, we know that some­times see­ing a city we’re vis­it­ing through the eyes of our chil­dren gives trav­el­ing a whole new per­spec­tive. We see things in a dif­fer­ent light, expe­ri­ence the his­tory of places and things more inno­cently, and in gen­eral do things and visit places that we might have missed had we been on our own.