Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

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The Benefits of Hyper Local Travel

Since I am not allowed to fly, I feel like a beached whale, and I have to pee every 30 minutes, my husband and I have devoted our weekends and evenings to hyper local travel. (I might have just made up the phrase “hyper local travel”.) Basically, we’ve been exploring the world within a 10 [...]

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Coping When My Spouse is Away

My husband is on another one of his international work trips, and if you’re a long-time blog reader, you might recall a post from last year about how poorly I cope when he is away.  To summarize, I drown my loneliness in fast food and Glee re-runs. Things have changed though, and this year I [...]

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Fun for Pregnant Ladies in Durango, Colorado

I recently went to visit my mom in Durango, Colorado for a week.  Normally when I visit, we do tons of fun outdoorsy things like ride bikes, cross-country and downhill ski, ice skate, and snow shoe.  In fact, as a fairly lazy and warm-blooded creature, I get an entire year’s worth of outdoor activity during [...]

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Escaping to Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery

On our last day in Savannah, Georgia, we visited Bonaventure Cemetery.  The cemetery became famous after it was featured in the book and movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.  (The “Bird Girl” statue seen on the cover of Midnight is from Bonaventure Cemetery.  After the book and movie became [...]

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Three Things Every Bed and Breakfast Needs

My husband and I took our babymoon trip to Savannah, Georgia during a busy long weekend right after Valentine’s Day.  As a result, it was difficult for us to find a place to stay.  There was no room at the Inn, as they say. Finally, we found one bed and breakfast with one available room.  [...]