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  • Tips to Packing Light [Tips and Tricks]

    Tips to Packing Light [Tips and Tricks]

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    Last week I talked about the gear and tools that help in packing light. This week, I am going to talk about some specific packing light tips for women. These are the tips and tricks I actually use while on vacation. There is a lot of advice out there and I feel like I am…

  • How to stay safe while traveling

    How to stay safe while traveling

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    Traveling can be a scary concept, but that doesn’t mean you should do it. This post highlights tips to help you stay safe while traveling. But first: Know that things can go wrong anywhere The world can be a scary place. And with the bombings in London, Paris, Rome (the list goes on and on),…

  • Tips to Packing Light [Tools and Gear]

    Tips to Packing Light [Tools and Gear]

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    Packing Light Tools and Gear Packing light is an art. It takes years of practice and just when you think you’ve got it nailed, you’ll learn some new trick or find a new piece of gear that shows just how wrong you’ve been packing all of these years. There is a lot of trial and…

  • Destination Australia: Planning and Saving for a Trip Down Under (in 2016)

    Destination Australia: Planning and Saving for a Trip Down Under (in 2016)

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    Do you know how to plan and save for a trip? Travel funds and budgets are not something I am terribly good at. However, I have recently been working on them in an effort to prepare myself for a trip to Australia. As a child, I was obsessed with The Man from Snowy River. My…

  • 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…

  • Top 10 Tips for First-Timers Travelers

    Top 10 Tips for First-Timers Travelers

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    My coworker’s husband has just left on his first international trip to London. And other than a couple of trips to Mexico, this is his first international voyage. His wife has not done a lot of traveling herself so she has been asking me a lot of questions. Based on that, I figured I would…

  • North Dakota Via Train

    North Dakota Via Train

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    One year ago today, I rolled through North Dakota. It was very exciting. Now normally, a trip to North Dakota is not necessarily worthy of any sort of celebration (no offense to the 750,000 people who live there). But this was no ordinary trip for me. You see, North Dakota was my last state. Once…

  • Choosing your next travel destination…part 2

    Choosing your next travel destination…part 2

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    At my day job, we talk a lot about travel and the comparison of different locations. It comes up naturally due to the nature of our business. I work for an engineering consulting firm and we design projects all over the world (not me personally, I am not an engineer). Our engineers are on the…

  • 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…