NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations: Stories that Take You Away

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 to the people who inhabit them-and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you've come to expect from NPR.

We all have memories of family vacations-some successful, some less so, and some gone terribly awry. When it comes to report...