Catherine Parker has a passion for travel that\u2019s 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. Logging close to 100,000 miles behind the wheel, Catherine has explored 43 of the 63 U.S. national parks, 10 Canadian national parks in addition to national parks across the world. She is always willing to stop the vehicle for a great hike and has even been chased by a protective mamma bear. <\/p>\n
As an awarding-winning journalist, she contributes to U.S. News and World Report, Trip Advisor, Popular Science, C<\/a>hron.com<\/a> and Meredith Media\u2019s Family Fun and Chicago\u2019s Suburban Family. Her writing was featured in the onboard Alaskan travel guides: Compass\u2014The Onboard Magazine of Holland America Line and Disney Cruise Line Wonder Onboard Guide. Catherine also contributes to several Texas magazines as a monthly contributor well as online travel publications. Catherine publishes a family travel website, CarfulOfKids.com<\/a>. She lives in Central Texas in a 100-year-old house with a menagerie of animals and adult-sized kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Parker has a passion for travel that\u2019s driven her across North America, visiting all 50 U.S. states,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9747,3498,153,155,154,4172,76757,38656,76756,22564,76753,3745,70951,915,1828,7603,76754,18173,76755,28,59805,8345,52100,2599,76752,76758],"class_list":{"0":"post-171118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-best-main-street","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-emporia","15":"tag-grapevine","16":"tag-howell","17":"tag-kansas","18":"tag-mcminnville","19":"tag-michigan","20":"tag-nevada","21":"tag-new-jersey","22":"tag-north-carolina","23":"tag-ocean-city","24":"tag-ogden","25":"tag-oregon","26":"tag-paso-robles","27":"tag-pennsylvania","28":"tag-public-spaces","29":"tag-texas","30":"tag-usa-today-10best-readers-choice-awards","31":"tag-utah","32":"tag-virginia-city","33":"tag-waynesville"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}