Three Places Not to Miss in 2012

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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

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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 [...]

Inspiring yourself and others

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in·spi·ra·tion/ Noun: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative: “flashes of inspiration”. The quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something: “a moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display”. Who or what inspires you? In October we were honored to participate in [...]