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Are you a souvenir buyer?
No matter where you travel, there are usually a variety of shops that provide different types of souvenirs that you can take home with you. Do you buy? And if so – do you go for the kitsch or the specialty items? Over the years, I have purchased a lot of what I later deemed junk. Keychains, hologram pictures, pins, fridge magnets, postcard books; things that I would put into my memento box and not see again until I decided to pull it out and take a walk down memory lane. About 20 years ago, I finally had the idea that I should be buying something that WON’T be put…
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What do you always carry with you when you travel and why?
Traveling was put on hold during 2020 for a lot of us.So, looking back pre-pandemic or forward to post-vaccine,we are asking the question today — describe one thing that you always carry with you when you travel. I thought about this for a bit but the one thing I keep coming back to is a charger for the electronic devices that I inevitably bring. I usually leave my iPad in my room while on vacation, but at night, I power it on to catch up on email, play a game of solitaire or watch my favorite Instagram follows before I switch the light off to close my eyes for the…
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Do you have any favorite family vacation stories?
Vacations – Planning is great fun and then you get get to go and experience all you’ve created. Do you have any favorites you’d like to tell us about? Click the folders below to see what Pam and Ellen picked. I have been blessed to have been on a lot of vacations over the years; some short, some long, some excellent, some not so. Reminiscing about them to find one for this post was a lot of fun but I found I had a hard time picking a favorite. One kept popping up in my mind though and I ended up settling on a camping trip back in the early…