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On Monday I shared my final looks for the 10 x 10 Challenge, and now that I’ve returned to my full wardrobe and had a few days to reflect on the challenge, I wanted to share my final thoughts. See all the Winter 10 x 10 Posts here: Preview | Days 1 – 3 | …
I mentioned in Monday’s post that Michael and I took a trip to NYC last year in lieu of our typical gift exchange. It wasn’t that we grew tired of finding special gifts for the other person; we both love it when we find that perfect item we think the other will enjoy. Instead, we …
In Monday’s post, I shared that we were beginning a three-day detox to help get our bodies back on track after traveling. Well, here we are on the other side – we made it! This post contains affiliate links and I may receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking one of …
Because of the serious calorie deficits, I’ve never thought that a juice cleanse or soup cleanse was a good idea (plus it doesn’t really sound like fun) – but sometimes after a trip, I find it hard to settle back into healthy ways after returning home. Although we eat with abandon while traveling, we typically …
As I’ve mentioned before, I get asked a lot about how Michael and I fund our travels, although rarely directly. Most of the time the question asked is, “How do you get to do all that?” rather than, “How can you afford it?” But I think we all know what they really mean. Neither of …
Michael and I have been taking a trip to Europe every summer over the last four years, and each time we’ve brought along a journal each time to capture both the important and mundane parts of every day. It takes patience and diligence to keep a journal on the road; there has to be a …
Sharing some of my best tips for avoiding tourist trap restaurants
“If you don’t know it already, your flight has been canceled,” she said over the intercom, almost mockingly. We’d been at the Milan airport for almost nine hours when we heard this announcement. We’d shopped all there was to shop, eaten all we could manage to eat, and surfed the internet as much as the …
Michael and I held off on applying for the US Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry Program in part because of cost ($100? We can get a plane ticket for that amount!) and also because none of the nearby enrollment centers had hours that would fit in with our work schedules. But finally, toward the …