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A week ago I returned from my first journey to New Mexico (as opposed to many journeys to Old Mexico) and spent the last few days of it in Albuquerque. This is another one of those mid-sized cities that’s a great value and it does a pretty good job of appealing to all age…
No matter how much I travel, I still manage to get blown away by someplace new, especially when I get surprised by something I wasn’t expecting. That’s been the case this past few days for me in New Mexico. This is my first visit to Albuquerque and Santa Fe and I’ve spent a fair…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I just took a long weekend family trip to Huntsville Alabama. Down the road from Huntsville about 45 minutes (and about an hour from Chattanooga) is the Unclaimed Baggage Center. It’s been on my list of places I wanted to go for a long time. It started…
I piled the wife, kid, and luggage in the car for a four-day weekend to the unexplored lands of…Huntsville, Alabama? I get interviewed a lot in the media about how families can take a vacation without spending a fortune. It doesn’t matter for them how dirt cheap Guatemala or Thailand is right now because…
Most tourists that come to Peru go through a well-defined circuit. I was right with the herd the first time I visited, so this time I wanted to spend more time in the Sacred Valley, the beautiful region between Cusco and Machu Picchu that most people just breeze through on a one-day tour. (Or…
I got quoted in an article from Time magazine about the impact travel can have on a relationship: The True Couple’s Travel Test. It’s a great piece that runs down a lot of different couples’ experiences on how getting away together affected their relationship. I’ve been married 12 years now and our first round-the-world…
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