Extreme travel in wintry America: How one family survived a Fomo-fuelled vacation

The Niagara Falls State Park was one of the stops on the Ang family's 12-day coast-to-coast trip in the United States. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO
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UNITED STATES – In a moment of madness, I decided to take the family on a coast-to-coast trip in the United States this December. 

What was I thinking? It did not occur to me, when I made the bookings, that I was sentencing myself to 12 consecutive days of extreme family travel in nasty winter conditions. 

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