The best reasons to travel in the off season   We are like most families in the United States, our vacations revolve around when the kids have time off from school. Like most of you, our kids go to regular school and my husband and I work fairly normal jobs. (My husband is self employed and I am a teacher.) For the last 12 years we have tried to travel 6 weeks out of every year. That number may seem enormous to the average American, but when you take into account 10 federal holidays, weekend trips, spring break/Easter break,...