Where Did Our Love Go? The Five Hour Rule

Ddong Chim Mongolia

Traveling with someone you love is an experience like no other. It can bring you closer, but if you’re not careful, it can push you apart. This Valentine’s Day, traveling couples can keep the romance alive by taking a temporary break from each other. Don’t panic – sometimes five minutes apart is all it takes. [...]

Three Places Not to Miss in 2012

Panthenon

There’s a huge list of world activities coming our way in 2012. We don’t have the budget to go to most of them (read: 99% of them), but if we could here are the three we still wouldn’t miss. 1. London’s Olympics Ever since I was a little girl I’ve wanted to go to the [...]

Giveaway: Emergency Travel Assistance

Walk in the Woods

Just before taking our big trip we started to think long and hard about some of the aspects of travel most people don’t like to talk about…medical assistance while traveling.  As we looked and looked we found that most traditional plan descriptions wouldn’t cover us abroad and most travel assistance plans had so many restrictions [...]

Greatest travel gifts of 2011

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Well the season is upon us.  Last minute shopping has ALWAYS been a forte of mine – nothing like a limited time frame in which to make decisions.  Most blogs are going to tell you to get practical and useful gifts for the traveler in your life this season (and we normally would too), but [...]