We recently enjoyed a holiday weekend in Santa Fe, New Mexico as it’s such a cool travel destination and it’s only a six-hour drive from home for us — making it a great choice for a quick weekend getaway. We opted to stay at the Eldorado hotel for our weekend as it was a nice
I’ve talked before how Rick and I love going on food tours when we travel. And while we didn’t have time to sneak in a food tour in Lisbon, we did go on a different type of foodie adventure: Dinner with a local. Withlocals is a tourism company that connects travelers with local hosts for
In April, Rick and I went to Lisbon with my family for our first big family European getaway in years! Lisbon has been on my parents’ travel bucket list for a long time and when they asked if we wanted to come along to we were not going to say no. My mom found a
Back in February, I had the chance for a quick weekend getaway in San Francisco and thanks to my credit card points I scored our hotel for free. I booked two nights at the Galleria Park, just on the edge of the Financial District. My sister had actually stayed at the hotel on a previous
I recently had the opportunity for a quick weekend getaway with my sister to San Francisco and I immediately went online and looked up ghost tours. My sister, like me, loves haunted history and we make a point to book ghost tours when we travel as a family so she was more than down to
February is here so many of us are starting to think of romantic things to do this month – and while I didn’t do this particular activity with Rick I definitely would be interested in doing it next time we find ourselves in Seattle! Today I’m talking about my experience reserving a hot tub boat
Back in early August, I went on a girls’ trip with my friends from high school to Seattle. We made sure we did the best sightseeing and sampled all the fresh fish we could get our hands on – as well as some superb Washington wine to wash it all down! I’d been to Seattle
We recently wrote about our time on Maui, a combination of working remote and a vacation, thanks to both of our jobs being flexible this year and we did end up taking two days off for full-time exploration of the island. Though we were done with work by 1 p.m. each day, local time on
Back in June of 2020 we had to cancel our big Europe trip that we had been planning since 2019 and it wasn’t fun saying goodbye to all those travel plans but there was no way around it with COVID-19 raging the way it was and we had to pull our weight to stop the
I’ve already done a post on why I love my Ipsy subscription as a traveler and how I can better pack for vacations with travel-sized makeup, moisturizer, and primers that I get each month. Another thing I love about Ipsy is that it introduced me to Wander Beauty products, a makeup line that’s designed for