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What websites do you use in order to book your travel plans? Smart travelers will shop around online to try to get the best rates for their trips, of course. However, you usually end up finding one or two travel booking sites that you like best. You then use those sites as your go-to sites [...]
Some of you follow this blog and read it regularly. (Thanks!) A few of you have asked me what’s going on with my travel plans for Houston. You see, awhile back I made an online friend from Houston through this blog. I didn’t make any specific travel plans to go to Houston but I did [...]
It’s time to get ready for summer travel. The following checklist is something that I keep on hand to make sure that I pack all of the summer extras that we need when we are traveling as a family at this time of year. At this time each year, I head out to the store [...]
One of my kids has gotten really interested in ghost towns lately. I’m not sure where the fascination has come from but I think it would be a fun thing to encourage. I’m not quite sure where we will travel to so that we can visit a ghost town. I do think it’s going to [...]
President Obama has recently done something groundbreaking for tourism in America. He has signed the Travel Promotion Act. This is a new law that will charge foreigners a fee to come into the United States. The fee that is collected will be used to promote tourism to America, growing the number of people who come [...]
I just recently came across a really interesting article about how much different travel is now that we have smartphones. Some of the points made in the article about what people do differently now that they have these gadgets include:
No more paper tickets. These days, people get their flight confirmation emailed to them. They can [...]
I would love to say that I’m going on a great vacation right now. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. I have some neat family trips planned for later in the year but this is one of those lulls during which I’m not getting the opportunity to travel much. Even when you are great at traveling [...]
I love the Etsy site. I love to browse through the vintage and handmade items that are there. I love to see what creative people are doing. And I love the fact that if I do decide to buy something from here I’m supporting independent artists. Usually I wait to find a good deal on [...]
One of the New Years goals I have for 2010 is to try to take my family out of the country this year. I would really love to go to Buenos Aires but I just don’t know if it’s going to be financially feasible. Right now what I’m working on doing is learning everything that [...]
One of the things that I always do at the end of the year is to figure out what I didn’t get done that year. I decide if I still want to get it done in the year to come or if I am ready to let it go. This is a month-long process that [...]