Category: BLOG

  • Exploring Your Own Backyard

    Exploring Your Own Backyard

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    How often do you go out exploring your own backyard? This past weekend, we headed to the mountains. Our goal: huckleberries. I am happy to report that we were successful and came home with a nice little haul. R had family visiting from another state. They opted to postpone their drive home in order to…

  • To cruise or not to cruise?

    To cruise or not to cruise?

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    Cruise ship travel is not for everyone. So “to cruise or not to cruise?” is the question I will try to answer today. Cruise ship travel may be perfect for you. Or it may be the worst idea ever for your travel style. Or maybe, like me, it is for you every once in a…

  • Tips for surviving those awful international flights

    Tips for surviving those awful international flights

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    Back in February, B and I headed off to Hawaii so I could join her in the Fifty States Club.  (Meaning  we had visited all 50 states.) We caught a quick hop to Seattle and then flew to Kona on the Big Island. I knew this was going to be a long flight, but I…

  • Global Entry vs. TSA PreCheck

    Global Entry vs. TSA PreCheck

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    Global Entry and TSA PreCheck have changed the way we travel. As Michael would say, “Do you remember a time”……when you didn’t have to bring a ziplock bag with you to the airport? Or when you didn’t have to unlace your boots to walk through the weird, scanny machine? Well, with TSA PreCheck you can…

  • About Jane

    About Jane

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    Hello! We are B and R. A couple of average Janes who love to travel. We are friends and roommates with normal, eight-to-five jobs that provide us with decent, but not extravagant, incomes and vacation time. During our time off, we enjoy exploring this great big world. And although we very much like a nice,…