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Monthly Archives for March 2010.

Making Travel Better: Noise Canceling Headphones

a close-up of a headphones

One of the top things that can help your travel experience–noise canceling headphones. They can block out the poor screaming kid behind you, make your music or movie sound better, and make it feel (just a little bit) like you’re all alone and not on a plane with 150 other people.  Earlier this year when…

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Tomorrow is the LAST DAY for the Australia Trip Contest

Don’t forget to enter your comment below! Sunday is the last day to post a comment to try to win a trip to Australia’s Gold Coast. It would be so exciting for the winner to come from my blog. Don’t forget, full contest rules can be found here.

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Bizarre Travel Stories

Happy Friday, everyone!! For some reason my fabulous but very grounded step-mom sends me the craziest travel stories and products…..and today’s is no exception.  There is an article in Bing Travel about bizarre travel stories. An example: Don’t point that at me! After passing through security gates at the Baltimore-Washington airport, a man took off…

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Green Travel Tip: Take a Water Bottle (Revisited)

a blue water bottle with white text

The last time I posted about taking a water bottle with you when you travel, I got a few questions about the water bottles with filters. Can you take them overseas? How much “filtering” do they actually do? While I had seen filtering water bottles, I had never really looked into it or used one.…

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It’s here!! How to win the Free Trip to Australia’s Gold Coast!!!

a beach with a white sand and blue water

As some of you may have heard, Boarding Area is giving away a free trip to Australia’s Gold Coast. This trip includes airfare, hotel, excursions, meals, PLUS enough cash to cover the approximate taxes. What a great prize!! The official rules and information can be found here. So, your immediate questions must be: How to…

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Great Travel Tip: How to Know Where the Fuel Door Is

Fly Gracefully has another great post about business travel. How do you know where the fuel door is on your rental car? Look at the arrow! She even has photographs. Thanks Grace!!

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What To Wear To the Airport: AT Loft Edition

a woman in a black jacket

I am having a shopping freak out moment. Probably because I’m still not really allowing myself to spend any money since the credit card shop-a-thon time in February (thanks sister for getting married!! fun wedding, long time paying off card).  Because I am not spending any money, I see cute things EVERYWHERE. Today, specifically, at…

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Can Career Women Be Successful Mothers? A Great Article

I think the question has certainly been answered: YES. Career women can certainly be successful mothers. But I really like this article by Kristen van Ogtrop about her experiences as a career woman without, and then with, kids. It’s just a little more reassurance to those of us who work a lot, and travel a…

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Free trip to Australia??

Boarding Area will be giving away a free trip to Australia’s Gold Coast!! the trip will include airfare, hotel, and even enough cash to cover taxes!  I will have more details and how to enter later this week. Keep checking back!! You don’t want to miss this one, believe me.

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Quick Security Tip: What To Do With Those Coats

Now, I know that it is spring, and in most places heavy coats are going back into storage. However, I have a tip for getting through security with coats of any size. I have seen travelers fight their way through security with large overcoats, sweaters, and scarves, in addition to their suitcase and purse. If…

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