Catherine Parker has a passion for travel that’s driven her across North America, visiting all 50 U.S. states, seven Canadian provinces, six Mexican states, along with top destinations in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. As a former flight attendant with one of the largest airlines, she’s landed in nearly every North American airport at least once.
As an awarding-winning journalist, she contributes toUSAToday10Best, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report,Lonely Planet, and a host of regional magazines. Catherine publishes a travel website, CarfulOfKids.com, that syndicates to MSN. She lives outside of Austin in a 100-year-old house with her family and a menagerie of animals.
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