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The 9-year-old Trip

My family has a tradition: when each child reaches the age of nine, they get to plan a trip to anywhere in the world! The trip is with parents, but no siblings allowed. Nine is a good age – you’re still young enough to want to hang out with parents (no teenage…

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Gift Ideas for your Travel Lover

The holidays are coming, so here are some gift ideas for your favorite traveler, at various price ranges: Bose Headphones  – $300-500 I can’t mention enough how awesome these noise-cancelling devices are for in-flight. Hands down, they are my favorite luxury travel item.   SD Cards – $10-20 A great…

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Travel Maps

For those of us that want to track our travels, there are quite a few options out there. I’ve compiled a bunch of the online sites that allow you to create your own custom travel map with info and photos for comparison: Traveller’s Point https://secure.travellerspoint.com/ Pros: You can change the…

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Pretending to be Canadian/Australian

It’s no secret that American tourists have a bad reputation abroad. We are seen in stereotypes of being loud, obnoxious, culturally insensitive, paranoid, overweight conservatives who expect everyone to speak English, etc. I’ve often to been tempted to claim another nationality while travelling, especially when you experience outright bias or…

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Seen from a Plane Window

Here are the craziest things seen from an airplane window:   Thunder/Lighting Storm in Southwest USA – We navigated around the storm, but still got quite the show for about 15 minutes. It was beautiful (and a little bumpy). Mt. Everest – My first view of the Himalaya mountain range was Mt.…

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Dirk

Dirk – ‘d&rk (noun) : a long straight-bladed dagger When I was a wee bonnie lassie, I met a Highlander on the Isle of Skye. He was dressed in full Scottish regalia. He caught me glancing at the handle of his dirk, so he brought it out to show me. He…

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