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Travel

3 June 2010

Travel news

1.) I won a trip to Cancun on Twitter. (I’ve won a few things on Twitter now. Reason #8741 to love Twitter)
2.) As of next week, I will be a paid travel blogger on a big site. Perfect li’l side gig for a girl like me. More details to come.

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19 May 2010

What would you do if failure wasn’t an option?

That’s the question that was asked of me by my life coach that I’ve been working with. I had a very quick answer. “I’d create a site about travel and share info with other people and grow a community of other travel lovers around that.”
Then the follow-up questions: “what’s stopping you?”, “why are you insecure [...]

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8 February 2010

Mega post: How I plan trips with kids

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As many people know, I’m a travel freak and I happen to think the kids should come along most of the time. I’m also obsessed with the details and have often said that planning is half the fun.
Here’s how I do it.
1. Booking flights
It’s not a real trip to me unless flying is involved. There’s [...]

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22 September 2009

Blake and I had SO MUCH FUN

As I wrote previously, Blake and I headed to Disneyland for about 3 days. He’s been to Disney World twice so much of Disneyland was familiar but it’s just small enough to be able to do it all in a couple of days.
We flew out of Wichita which meant that Blake and I drove Tuesday [...]

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30 June 2009

For the love of travel

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Up until now, all or most of my posts have been “how to” type of information. This works well for most of what I want to share but there is one exception:
Travel.

I can’t just give travel tips here without also sharing my passion about it.

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8 June 2009

Jet lag is not necessary

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On our first overseas trip, I had a terrible time with jet lag and fell asleep during meals and shows and took a few days to adjust. On future trips, I wanted to eliminate this awful feeling and lost time. This is the combination that works for me. Experiment and see what works for you.
1.) [...]

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4 June 2009

12 tips before boarding your first cruise ship

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Last week I lost my Cruise Virginity. I’m used to researching and planning trips but this was our first cruise and we did some things right and some…not. Here are some tips based on what we learned.

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3 June 2009

Our First Cruise

I would typically break our trip reports out by day and have multiple posts for the trip report. This time I’m going to summarize in just one post because I don’t have the pictures I usually do and the days kind of ran together.
Getting ThereWe flew into Tampa the day before the cruise was scheduled [...]

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26 May 2009

10 fun things to do on a family road trip

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I didn’t grow up going on many road trips. Anything over an hour and we were staying the night. I did, however, marry somebody who grew up taking long road trips and as adults, we have lived eight hours away from family for nearly eight years. I was sort of forced to get used to [...]

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19 May 2009

This week

It’s a pretty busy one. Softball game, last days of school, dentist appointments, packing and then we drive to KC on Friday to begin our 9 days away from home. Oh, and I’m starting a blog as a side business but not really looking at making money yet. Just building content and getting setup right [...]

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