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Trying to Beat the Heat in Harper’s Ferry

Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

A couple of weekends ago my FAVORITE travel companion, Liz, came to visit. She’d never been to DC before so we spent a couple of days doing the typical sweaty sightseeing in the thick DC humidity. Seriously, DC becomes an asphalt sweatbox in the summer. Once we’d had enough of that we decided a daytrip [...]

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Your Travel Medicine Questions Answered!

Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

Getting sick abroad is not fun. Getting REALLY sick while traveling is the absolute worst (trust me, I’ve been there). Because I prefer to spend my time on the beach, not in the ER, I went in for a travel medicine consultation a couple weeks ago. I visited that Capitol Travel Medicine clinic in Arlington [...]

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Friday Postcard: San Francisco, California

Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

Fishermen’s Wharf in San Francisco, with it’s street performers and t-shirt kisoks, is about as touristy as you can get. So it was a pleasant surprise to stumble into the cool and dark Musee Mecanique. This museum of antique coin operated games, peep shows and animatronics is something out of an RL Stine novel, but [...]

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Apothecurious

Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Guest Poster.

I’m a big fan of today’s guest poster, Matt from LandLopers. His vibrant account of the medina in Marrakech has me dying to visit Morrocco. I can honestly say that I have never tried to find the closest apothecary. Drug stores, supermarkets, yes; apothecaries, not so much. Of course that was before my trip to [...]

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Learning from Our Travel Mistakes

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

(Over the next couple of weeks I’m recounting ways that travel has helped me to learn about myself. For reference check out my first article: How Travel makes us Smarter, Wiser and All-Around More Awesome and Learning to Love Being Alone) Once, I took a trip that wasn’t very fun. It was one of my [...]

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Adding to Your Pot of Gold

Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

Spending Diet update! You can track how my own savings are progressing here. Most of the tips I’ve been offering you guys up to now have been about how to make the most of the money you are already making (most likely from a traditional 9-5). I do recognize that there is only so much [...]

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Friday Postcard: Rio de Janeiro

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

Today’s images were contributed by Jason from Locationless Living. While in Rio De Janeiro he had a chance to visit some of the famous favelas, or slums. The picture above is some local kids playing the drums for extra money. The second is a view of the favelas, which are often built illegally on the [...]

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An Important Addition to your Travel To-Do List: Exercise

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Guest Poster.

Today’s guest post stresses a lesson I could stand to do better on myself: the importance of being physically fit while traveling. On Emei Shan last month, we reached roughly 1,200 meters’ altitude before I started to feel like I wanted to die. Which might sound like an achievement, except that we’d taken a cable [...]

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Winner of the Hotels Combined Contest!

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Steph.

Last week I gave you all the chance to win a $200 accomodations voucher from Hotels Combined by leaving a comment on this post. You guys left some really great comments, and I’m told selecting the best was very difficult. And the winner is… Anna, who said: I’d stay at the Serena Serengeti Lodge–After full [...]

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