Travel Tips

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Think you’re a savvy traveler? Read a few of these posts and see if you don’t learn a little something new!

Budget Tips

Couple Travel

  • Where to Travel According to Your Love Language

    Where to Travel According to Your Love Language

    If you’re also a fan of any of the 5 Love Language books, I hope you’ll find some inspiration for future travels!

  • The World’s Best Hotels for Couples

    The World’s Best Hotels for Couples

    If you’re looking for a romantic place to go with your honey this year, here are the best ones.

  • How to Plan the Perfect Valentine’s Day Getaway

    How to Plan the Perfect Valentine’s Day Getaway

    Here’s your guide to exactly how make big plans for you and your honey!

  • The Secrets to Happy Couple Travel

    The Secrets to Happy Couple Travel

    Okay, no couples are perfect. But that’s okay! It is possible to travel with the person you love and still love them afterward.

  • 10 Most Romantic Travel Experiences

    10 Most Romantic Travel Experiences

    What’s romantic to you? Travel is how my sweet husband Steve and I show love for each other.

  • How to Choose the Ultimate Anniversary Getaway

    How to Choose the Ultimate Anniversary Getaway

    If you’re looking for a fantastic place to spend your anniversary in the coming years, this post has all the inspiration you’ll need!

  • Ultimate Travel Couple Bucket List

    Ultimate Travel Couple Bucket List

    Looking for some adventures to have with your loved one? There are definitely some bucket list items out there that are best experienced as a couple, and I hope you’ll find that this list is your ultimate guide!

  • Where to Get Engaged in Verona

    Where to Get Engaged in Verona

    Ah, love! It’s beautiful, it’s fun, and it’s, well, lovely! Our Valentine’s trip to Verona was an absolute dream, and I kept thinking, “Wow! What a great spot to get engaged!” and, “Wow! What a beautiful view for an engagement! So if you’re planning an engagement or a trip to Verona, here are a few…

  • The World’s Most Perfect Honeymoons

    The World’s Most Perfect Honeymoons

    I left the honeymoon planning up to my sweet, soon-to-be husband, and he did a fantastic job! So whether you or the love of your life will be the one planning your honeymoon, here are some suggestions to help you dream!

  • The Flight for True Love

    Originally published 5 February 2014. This is the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me! While I was sorry to leave Val, and I was so thankful for her and her Steve’s hospitality, I was looking forward to getting home to see my Steve when he picked me up at the airport in…

Destination Ideas

Essential Travel Skills

Passports and Visas

  • How to Get Your Passport Fast

    How to Get Your Passport Fast

    Need your passport in a hot minute? Here’s how to make it happen.

  • How to Apply for an Australian Tourist Visa

    How to Apply for an Australian Tourist Visa

    In case you haven’t heard yet… I’m headed to Australia and New Zealand this week! I have two long layovers in Sydney, Australia, on my way to and from Christchurch, New Zealand, and I may be making my way back Down Under in the next few months, so I needed to get a Tourist Visa.

  • How to Renew Global Entry

    How to Renew Global Entry

    My husband’s Global Entry was set to expire this year, so I decided to document his renewal process so you will know what to expect!

  • How to Apply for Global Entry

    How to Apply for Global Entry

    Are you ready to revolutionize (and speed up) your travels? Global Entry is just the thing for you!

  • What To Do When You Lose Your Passport

    What To Do When You Lose Your Passport

    This week it’s all about expecting the unexpected and preparing for the one of the worst possible travel scenarios: losing your passport.

  • How to Get an Impossible Visa

    How to Get an Impossible Visa

    Think you can’t visit the country you want because you’re not allowed to get the visa? Don’t give up hope!

  • The Traveler’s Ultimate Guide to Passports

    The Traveler’s Ultimate Guide to Passports

    I’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know so you can start traveling the world without limits!

  • How to Get a Tourist Visa

    How to Get a Tourist Visa

    So you’re wondering how to go about getting a tourist visa. Do I need one? How soon should I start the process? Do I seriously have to send my passport?

Personal Care

Top Travel Tips

  • The Best Tips for Taking Public Transportation Anywhere in the World

    The Best Tips for Taking Public Transportation Anywhere in the World

    Whether you’ve never used public transportation or you find yourself needing to learn a form of public transportation you’re not used to, it can be intimidating.

  • The Most Common Mistakes When Planning Travel (and how to avoid them!)

    The Most Common Mistakes When Planning Travel (and how to avoid them!)

    Here’s my list of common travel mistakes and how to avoid them in your future travel planning!

  • Top 10 Ultimate Road Trip Tips

    Top 10 Ultimate Road Trip Tips

    Whether you’re desperate to get out, afraid to fly at the moment, or you finally bought that RV you’ve always wanted, here are my best tips for taking to the open road!

  • Your Ultimate 2020 Travel Essentials

    Your Ultimate 2020 Travel Essentials

    While I’m not trying to promote unnecessary or unsafe travel, I do think that is you’re going to travel right now, it’s good to be prepared! So I decided to pull together a list of the most essential items to put on your COVID travel packing list. Here you go!

  • The Best Hotel Luxuries

    The Best Hotel Luxuries

    There’s nothing better than coming back after a long day to a freshly-made bed… that I didn’t have to make! That is luxury to me. What says luxury to you?

  • How to Savor Your Travels

    How to Savor Your Travels

    In an effort to truly savor our travels from here on out, and to help you do the same, here’s your list of ways to savor your travels—because we will never take travel for granted again, will we?

  • The Business of Traveling for Good

    The Business of Traveling for Good

    I recently had the pleasure of chatting with my dear friend and fellow entrepreneur Jillian Ryan, of Marie Mae Company, for her incredible Good Office Podcast! We talked about doing good in our travels, and I gave a few little-known tips for being a responsible traveler, wherever you find yourself.

  • What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Traveling

    What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Traveling

    I have recently passed my 14th blogging anniversary. I know, I can’t believe it either!

  • How to Make a Business Trip Fun

    How to Make a Business Trip Fun

    Maybe it seems impossible, maybe it seems like it’s against the rules (it’s not), but no excuse is a good one. Here is the short list of the best ways to make the most of your next business trip!

  • 5 Practical Ways to Travel Sustainably

    5 Practical Ways to Travel Sustainably

    I know, I know. You have a million people and companies and advocates basically yelling at you to save the planet, but very few of them are kindly explaining some practical ways to do that. So I decided to do that.

  • Tips for Flying with Gifts

    Tips for Flying with Gifts

    I don’t know about you, but I love finding that perfect gift for my friends and family, whether it’s for a birthday, Christmas, or just because.

  • Travel Mistakes (You May Be Making)

    Travel Mistakes (You May Be Making)

    No one likes to be corrected–perhaps especially not me! But no one also likes to do the wrong things–perhaps especially when traveling and being outside of what is familiar.

  • Why It’s Okay to Be a Tourist

    Why It’s Okay to Be a Tourist

    I’m about to make some “travelers” very mad. As a travel blogger, I try to read other travel blogs to keep up-to-date and perhaps find some travel tips or inspiration. But lately I’ve read more and more articles that attempt to “tourist shame.”

  • Surviving Rainy Day Travels

    Surviving Rainy Day Travels

    I have never found a way to truly appreciate cloudy or rainy days when I’m traveling, since I always want to get picture-perfect photos and I just love the sun! But sometimes you just have to roll with it.

  • Jet Lag: Your Secret Travel Weapon

    Jet Lag: Your Secret Travel Weapon

    Do you love jet lag? Neither do we! It seems like the older I get, the more jet lag effects me. But there are a few ways to use jet lag to our advantage. Nothing should stop you when you travel!

  • The Best Apps for Travelers

    The Best Apps for Travelers

    This week we are going hi-tech and letting you in on some awesome travel apps to help you be a savvy and efficient traveler!

  • The Beauty of a Weekender

    The Beauty of a Weekender

    Today I’m letting you in on some of the reasons why weekend trips are so awesome. Steve and I frequently take quick trips to places we’ve never been, and inevitably we get looks of shock and the exclamation, “But that’s not enough time to really know a city!” Or the ever-popular, “But why would you…

Travel Advice

Travel Lists

  • The Ultimate Traveler’s Bucket List

    The Ultimate Traveler’s Bucket List

    How many have you checked off so far, and how many do you have to go?

  • The Ultimate Foodie Destinations Around the World

    The Ultimate Foodie Destinations Around the World

    If you’re a foodie like me, it might be fun to pick your next trip based on a destination’s foodie-friendliness.

  • The Luckiest Things that Ever Happened to Us on Travel

    The Luckiest Things that Ever Happened to Us on Travel

    The short answer: YES! Here are some of the luckiest things that ever happened to us in all our travels, whether solo or together.

  • The Most Interesting Ways We Got Creative on Travel

    The Most Interesting Ways We Got Creative on Travel

    Truly, part of the fun of travel is the journey!

  • Steve’s Best Travel Moments

    Steve’s Best Travel Moments

    Tomorrow is Steve’s birthday! Woohoo! Fun fact: It’s also my mom’s birthday! Woohoo!

  • Quick Whit’s Best Travel Moments

    Quick Whit’s Best Travel Moments

    I’ve also found reminiscing about past trips to be fun and soothing, with the added bonus of appreciating all the amazing things I’ve been able to do over my last 14 years of travel. Check out my top 10 list of my favorite travel moments!

  • What I Love About Travel

    What I Love About Travel

    I am grateful for the travels and adventures I’ve had up to now. Travel has given me so much, and I love everything about it. Here’s the short list!

  • 5 Ways to Surprise Someone with Travel

    5 Ways to Surprise Someone with Travel

    I love to be surprised, and I love to surprise the people in my life, and it made me think about the best surprise anyone ever gave me, when Steve came to “pick me up” at the Burbank airport when we were newly engaged! He flew across the country just to surprise me, and that…

  • 10 Things Every Traveler Should Know

    10 Things Every Traveler Should Know

    Some travel by car, some prefer flying, still others take trains, sail, cruise, or even walk! But no matter how you travel, there are just some things that absolutely every traveler should know!

  • Some Things Travelers Know (That Other People Don’t)

    Some Things Travelers Know (That Other People Don’t)

    The more you do something, the better you get at it, right? In an industry as changeable and varied as travel, it seems like the rules change all the time; but despite all that, there are a few things travelers know for sure.

  • My Top 10 Best Travel Hacks

    My Top 10 Best Travel Hacks

    Are you ready for this? I love giving away my travel tips, but I was recently compelled to compile a list of my very top travel hacks–the lifesavers that work every time! Well, this is it. Get ready to travel like a pro!

  • The 6 Craziest Things that Happen to Travelers

    The 6 Craziest Things that Happen to Travelers

    Let’s be practical for a minute. We all know I LOVE to travel, but I’ll be completely honest, there are some uncomfortable and less than convenient parts to traveling.

Travel Tips by Season

Spring

Summer

Fall

  • The Ultimate List of Fall Destinations

    The Ultimate List of Fall Destinations

    Whatever you call it, if you’re traveling this season, you’re most likely looking for changing colors on the trees, chillier temperatures, and maybe some maple-flavored items along the way. Here are the best places to travel in the fall–and the autumn!

  • The Best Tips for Traveling in Fall

    The Best Tips for Traveling in Fall

    Fall is a beautiful time to travel! The leaves are all colors, the mornings are crisp, and the afternoons warm up nicely. But I have to admit, fall is probabaly the hardest season to pack for, and it has a few other challenges as well! But never fear. I have some tips for you to…

Winter

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