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Do you ever find yourself walking through a museum chock full of priceless works of art or millennia of human history, only to find yourself sighing from boredom? Guess what? You’re not alone. There’s a century-old term for this feeling – Museum Fatigue – and I suffer from it, too. It took visiting a few …
What it’s like to win a grand prize trip, what to expect at tax time, and how to better your chances of winning a trip, too.
Back in August, Michael and I took our first flight since the start of the pandemic. We weren’t even planning to travel by air; we were set on doing a mini-road trip to Richmond, Virginia, to celebrate our dating anniversary (13 years – time flies!). But, as I often do when I’m bored, I found …
It’s no secret that our quality of sleep declines when we travel, and while we may not be able to rewire our brains to combat the “first-night effect” (let alone sleep well in an airplane’s ever-diminishing coach seat), there are a few products currently available on the market whose sole purpose is to help us …
Today’s post is in collaboration with Organic Basics and contains gifted product and affiliate links. As always, all opinions are my own. Keep reading ’til the end for a special discount for wayward readers! The key to a successful outfit lies in its foundation – as does the key to a successful packing list. Whether …
Let’s dive into a taboo topic today: money. And not only reading about money, or spending money – today we’ll be talking about money in a way that we hate: talking about it with other people. I briefly mentioned this topic in a previous post [20 questions you should ask a potential travel partner before …
Of the many, many TSA regulations, the 3-1-1 rule about liquids is one of the most unnecessary, arbitrary rules you’ll encounter while traveling. How much time has been lost while staring at bath and body products the night before a trip, debating if the item in front of us is liquid or a solid? And …
It’s Monday, the start of another grueling work week. And I would be willing to bet you airfare that someone will to me sometime during the week about how expensive travel is. They’re not wrong – travel is expensive. This is why we, at this point in our lives and careers, have to make sacrifices …
“it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”
In my last post, I shared what we did during our day in New Orleans, and since then I’ve received lots of questions about what it’s like to fly somewhere and back in one day. Even though Summer and its opportunities for extended vacations are approaching, so are the peak rates that many hotels and …