If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That’s normally what I believe, but I bought into the housesitting hype anyway. You get to stay somewhere for free in exchange for playing with puppies. That’s a dream come true for a travel (and dog) lover like me. Since perusing opportunity listings is […]
I didn’t plan to go to Chattanooga this year, but when a town is named “best town ever” by Outside Magazine, it catches my attention. Chattanooga earned that honor not once, but twice . And I still wasn’t planning on going to Chattanooga until I went to Knoxville and Nashville in June and remembered how much I love
Traveling is a giant obstacle course and making it easy is an art. You have to deal with jetlag, language barriers, new customs, and transportation delays. If you think that’s easy, good for you: you’re already an experienced traveler! And if that’s a challenge, I’m sharing my best travel tips so you can fake it
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Two things that consistently make me happy are travel and saving money. Put the two together, and I’m a happy camper, so I was thrilled to learn about TripBAM, a website that tracks hotel prices to notify you when rates drop. Essentially, you’ll enter your preferred hotel and dates — even if you’ve already booked — and
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More than a year after my first stay, I’m still using Airbnb. If I’m honest, I tried it the first time because I couldn’t afford anything else. The only options in my budget were Airbnb or camping, and even though I love to camp, it didn’t fit the mood of my Hawaii getaway. Are you new to
It still blows my mind that I spent five days in Colorado this summer without ever going into the mountains. In fact, I barely even saw them due to hazy conditions. That’s heresy considering that my heart lies on the top of a snow-capped peak. So why was I even in Colorado if I wasn’t
Perched on the top of a hill, the village of Motovun Croatia is a scene straight out of a storybook. It’s surrounded by medieval walls that overlook vineyards, each direction more beautiful than the last. While most tourists flock to the beach and seaside towns in Istria, Motovun is just far enough to remain an
Growing up, it was a joke in my family that every good vacation included a fort tour. Year after year, I rolled my eyes in boredom at battlefields and battleships, a sign that even then I preferred sightDOING to static walk-throughs. But now that I live in Richmond, revolutionary and civil war history is a big piece
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“But Mom, it’s so far away and we’re spending so much time in the car already,” I said, annoyed that she would even bring up the option of driving to Mount Rainier for a day. We were in the midst of planning a family get-together for after my Olympic Peninsula trip ended and before my parents’ trip to Vancouver
I’m not afraid to spend money on travel but wasting money is another story. Four nights at a hotel shouldn’t cost more than my monthly rent and four nights of a car rental should cost less than my monthly lease. Travel is a discretionary item and I’m not in a position to splurge on everything all the
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