Vacation Ideas for Educators

NEA Today has found some fun and unusual vacation spots  to take you off the beaten path this summer.

Life Is a Buffet

• Great Chocolate Fest in New Brunswick, Canada
• "In Celebration of Chocolate" - The American Club, Wisconsin
• Chocolate cruises
• Hershey Park, Pennsylvania
• The Vegetarian Resource Group
• Spiritual Guides' Vegetarian-Restaurants-net
• VegDining.com
• Vegetarian travel guides
• Fresh Body Market
• Food of the Gods Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico
• To Grandmother's House We Go cooking tours, Mexico and Italy

Call of the Wild

• Alaska Dog Sledding
• Wintergreen Dog Sledding Vacations, Minnesota
• Camel safari in India's Thar Desert
• Hot air ballooning  
• Skydiving
• Ice Hotel, Sweden
• Alta Igloo, Norway

Go to the Head of the Class

• Educators Bed & Breakfast Travel Network
• Explorica educational tours
• John Pennekamp Coral State Park, Key Largo, Florida
• Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix is offering teachers a special discount during the month of July 2005
• 100 Paid Summer Adventures for Teachers  by NEA member Jill Frankfort

There's No Place Like Home

• The Armchair Travel Company
• A Travel Guide Through Children's Literature by NEA member Hope Blecher-Sass