When people often think about traveling, they picture packing up the car for an epic road trip or jetting off to the airport. I’m here to tell you that traveling for hours on end is not a requirement to explore and have new adventures. Enter — the day trip. Not only are they budget friendly, but…
Now that the excitement of our Alaska vacation has settled, I thought about things that I did to help make planning this trip easier. Although I originally imagined we’d take a cruise, a simple comment from my husband got me to thinking that we should plan the trip ourselves, making it truly unique. Couple that…
It’s been a little over a month since we returned from our Alaska vacation and I finally sat down to reconcile my bank statement against my credit card bill. Not only is this for my records, but also to share with you fine folks. One of my main goals in starting this blog was to show…
Here it is, two weeks since we’ve returned from Alaska and I’m finally trying to put my thoughts down. Given all that we saw and did during our trip, I honestly didn’t know where to start. Do I talk about the food? Because I can easily say that the meals we had were above and…
Here it is, barely 24 hours after I left Quebec City from my first travel conference and I’m sitting down at the keyboard. While I wish I could’ve taken a full day to recover (i.e., sleep in, unpack and look over all the business cards and brochures I received), I was back to work at…
Starting 2018, I knew my travel calendar would be limited, given my current savings rate for my upcoming Alaskan trip, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t find budget-friendly adventures to embark on in the meantime. Enter the Philadelphia Travel & Adventure Show. There are 8 shows located across the country, but this was the only…
September is a special time of year for us. Not only does it mean that summer is over and fall is upon us, but that our wedding anniversary is here. We tend not to make a big deal out of it, typically choosing dinner at a local restaurant and maybe some small gifts for each…
Recently I got the hairbrained idea to take my parents along on a trip with me. Nothing says love like traveling, right? Since my bank account can only withstand so much abuse and my dad has done a fair bit of traveling, I decided to take my mom on a trip first. It didn’t take long…
