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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • June 7, 2024

How to Use Google Flights

Airplane wing flying over Greenland.

Are you planning a trip that requires a plane flight? If you’re like me, this may be the most stressful and frustrating part of the process of planning a travel adventure. There...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • May 31, 2024

Putting Pencil to Paper: How to Start Planning Your Trip

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‘Tis the Season For many people, the period from early spring through early summer is prime trip-planning season because they are planning trips for later in the summer. If your travel adventure...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • May 24, 2024

Adventuring Together: What If Your Partner Doesn’t Want to Travel?

Santa Fe, New Mexico, ristras.

What If Your Partner Doesn’t Want to Share Your Travel Adventure? Do you like to travel? Does your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend/partner? Uh oh! If you didn’t give the same answer to both questions, there...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • May 10, 2024

Can We Love a Place to Death? (Part 2)

Iceland

Overtourism Overtourism is too many visitors in an area at a given time. As the world’s population increases, so do the number of travelers. This can put a strain on historical cities,...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • April 19, 2024

Oh, Crap!

Instructions for how to use a toilet in Japan.

Travel and Bowel Problems Crap. Shit. Poop. Shite. Feces. Excrement. Number two. No matter what you call it, we all do it. But no one wants to talk about it. Luckily, I...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • March 29, 2024

How to Handle Flight Delays

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Travel delays have always been a part of travel. Whether you are flying, driving, or traveling by bicycle, problems like extreme weather can get in the way of even the best laid...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • March 8, 2024

Can You Repeat a Travel Experience?

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Do you like to return to your favorite vacation spots or do you prefer to explore new places? Some people like the comfort of returning to a familiar location over and over....

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • February 23, 2024

I Do Declare!

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What’s the Big Deal About Customs? Last week’s post was all about passports. For those of you who have traveled abroad, especially if you’ve done so multiple times and recently, you probably...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • February 16, 2024

Get That Passport!

Do you have any interest in traveling abroad? If you do, and you don’t have your passport yet, what are you waiting for? Are You a Brave Wise Traveler? I’m surprised at...

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  • By: Sandi McCoy Kramos
  • February 9, 2024

Do It Your Way

The Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Recently our friends, Danielle and Gibran, talked to me and my husband, Greg, about taking a trip to Greece. We showed them photos from our past trip and discussed where they might...

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