Travel Guides

Find travel guides, planning tips, advice, and resources for where you want to go for all the destinations I’ve visited! Everything is sorted by country and/or state for easy searching. Great for dreaming, planning, and making your trip a reality!

A Quick Roadtrip Through Pennsylvania and West Virginia

I’m always looking for great weekend getaways, and I’ve got a stockpile of bookmarked websites for inspiration.  Often, these bookmarks get buried under more recent findings, but I brushed off my plans for Fallingwater after I saw Travel Bug Diary mention it in her 2012 travel highlights.  The trip started to piece itself together further […]

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Add the Williamsburg Grand Illumination to Your Bucket List

I tend to fall victim to the mindset that travel has to be far away to “count”, forgetting that sometimes there are wonderful attractions right in my own backyard.  However, when life got in the way of my existing travel plans for last weekend, a “near-cation” became an incredible back-up plan. For this particular experience,

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North to Alaska: Driving the Haul Road to Prudhoe Bay

dalton highway overview

This guest post is courtesy of my husband (Mike) and summarizes his first trip up the Haul Road. As of 2019, he’s now driven it 3 times! For me, a roadtrip starts over 300 miles; otherwise it’s a weekend getaway.  I’m a self-proclaimed driver and my standard may be off from the general public as a guy who once put 50K on a Dodge Charger in a

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