How to Prepare for a Hurricane in New Orleans
Whether you stay or go, you need to be prepared during Hurricane Season on the Gulf Coast. Here is some information to get you more prepared.
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Why, when and how to buy trip insurance post Covid
Look, I am a travel cheapskate. I’m not forking over extra cash for another quarter inch of legroom. My garden view is just fine, thanks. But recently, I’ve started insuring my international trips. Why? For one, my city is impacted by increasingly horrific hurricane seasons. But mostly it’s because Covid adds too many uncertainties to …
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Nine reasons you should book a group travel trip
<UPDATE Oct 2021 We are hosting a group trip to Cost Rica and we want you to join!> I took my first group travel trip almost by accident — and I’m so lucky I did. Here’s nine reasons you should book a group travel trip. Picture this: Nepal, 2017. I was still a newbie world …
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Planning a Road Trip During COVID
It’s fair to say that not a single life has gone untouched by COVID-19. But for the avid traveler, this new way of life presents some specific challenges. If, like me, you’re not ready to take on the risks of air travel, you’ll have to prepare to road trip during COVID. I am by nature …
Notes From The Road
Well, well, well. Here we are. All limbs accounted for. Zero nights spent in jail. Passports still in hand (knock on wood). We’re about to head from jaw-dropping, put-it-on-your-list-now Prague to Provence in — le sigh — the South of France. All said, this makes four countries in a little more than two weeks. And …
How To Take a Vacation this Holiday Season (Without Breaking the Bank or Making Your Family Grumpy)
As featured on Apartment Therapy There’s something to be said for going home for the holidays. You’ve got family traditions, big meals — it makes mom happy. But for many people with 9-to-5s, that trip back to Denver or Dubuque every year eats up precious, precious vacation days. Days that could be spent waist-deep in …
Neverending vacation: How to travel without a return ticket
Well, well, well. Here we are. All limbs accounted for. Zero nights spent in jail. Passports still in hand (knock on wood). We’re about to head from jaw-dropping, put-it-on-your-list-now Prague to Provence in — le sigh — the South of France. All said, this makes four countries in a little more than two weeks. …
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Frenemies at the Gate: Traveler Broads Go Global in One Month!
You could literally be 15 feet away, buying Maloney a bottle of water — and if the airport gate attendant says line up, Maloney lines up. Your bags are abandoned where you left them, and she is NOT going to let you cut in line. She knows it’s weird, but THERE ARE RULES! The gate …
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Start Applying for Your Brazil Tourist Visa ASAP — Trust Us
Exactly one month from now, the Traveler Broads touch down in Salvador, Brazil for an epic New Year’s party in beachy Bahia, where we’ll be drinking it up in our white linens and working on our tans — that is, if all goes to plan. Despite having had our flights and hotel booked for more …
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