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5 Best Tips To Make Your Solo Trip Successful

Tips on Making Your Solo Trip Successful Traveling alone is exciting, and sows many rich qualities into your life that will last you a lifetime. But traveling solo is also hard work and takes a lot of good foresight. By planning well, you will make it more likely that your solo trip will be full of great memories instead of avoidable disasters. Here are several tips...

Lexington, Kentucky The Land Of Horses And Bourbon

Welcome to the land of horses and bourbon – Lexington! Having only driven through Kentucky on my way to Florida, I was excited to be able to spend a week exploring the Lexington area. I ditched my regular habit of intensely researching a destination before I travel there in favor of “winging it” this time around. Actually my long time friend and...

How To Travel For Free Or Almost Free

Yes, you can travel for free! How you ask can I travel for free or almost free? If you have limited funds or no funds to go to your favorite destination I have a suggestion that I use when I am not able to travel to my favorite place, Paris. Now I am not talking physically traveling to that destination, I’m suggesting you take a mental vacation through books...

4 Reasons Why You Should Try Solo Travel In Midlife

Are you dying to try solo travel? Midlife is a great time to realize your dream of solo travel. I think that when women hear the term “solo travel” they think of travel to far away places. While that can be the ultimate goal, it’s not necessarily the best way to start out for most women. If that is what you want to do (after all my first...

A Visit To The Nutella Cafe In Chicago

Confession:  I LOVE Nutella! Ever since I had Nutella for the first time in my first crepe in Paris, I was hooked.  So when I heard there was going to be a whole Nutella Cafe opening in Chicago, I new I had to visit it. This past weekend was my chance!  Having a Saturday off of work, I decided to jump on a Travelzoo email offering stays at Chicago’s Allegro...