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  • Top Websites (and Apps) for Better, Cheaper Travel
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  • Alternative Things to Do in Granada, Nicaragua
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  • How to Visit Uxmal from Merida
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  • What You Need to Know About Day of the Dead …
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  • 8 Biggest Surprises About Israeli Cuisine
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  • 11 Landfill-Bound Items to Nix While Traveling, and Easy Replacements
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  • How to Survive – and THRIVE – as a Vegetarian in Mexico
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  • Top 12 Things to Do in Puebla
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    • Extranjera Update

    Extranjera Update: April 2019 (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)

    Extranjera Update: April 2019 (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)

    What April 2019 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico looked like!

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    Travel tools

    Top Websites (and Apps) for Better, Cheaper Travel

    Top Websites (and Apps) for Better, Cheaper Travel

    The carefully curated list of travel tools that I use each and every time I plan and book a trip

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    Nicaragua

    Alternative Things to Do in Granada, Nicaragua

    Alternative Things to Do in Granada, Nicaragua

    Get off the beaten track (just a bit!) and try these 13 things that may have been under your radar on your trip to Granada, Nicaragua.

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    USA

    Planning My First International Trip of 2019: San Diego, California

    Planning My First International Trip of 2019: San Diego, California
    By the time my next trip comes around, I’ll have gone six months without any international travel (and to be honest, without much domestic travel, either). This is, by far, my longest stint of staying… View Post
    Expat Life

    Renewing Your Passport in Puerto Vallarta (or really, Nuevo Vallarta)

    Renewing Your Passport in Puerto Vallarta (or really, Nuevo Vallarta)

    Easy step-by-step instructions for renewing your passport if you’re around Puerto Vallarta.

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    Mexico

    How to Visit Uxmal from Merida

    How to Visit Uxmal from Merida

    Skip Chichen Itza and head straight for Uxmal!

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    Destinations

    Top 10 Travel Experiences I’m Hoping to Have in My 30s

    Top 10 Travel Experiences I’m Hoping to Have in My 30s

    All the top destinations I’m looking forward to (*hopefully*) seeing in this decade of life. Yay for 30!

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    Uncategorized

    5 Best Shoes for Trekking

    5 Best Shoes for Trekking
    Do you think you will be able to go on a long trekking tour with uncomfortable footwear? Surely not! Once you set out on a long journey on foot, you must wear something that makes… View Post
    Lifestyle

    7 Ways to Beautifully Decorate Your Home with Memories from Your Journeys

    7 Ways to Beautifully Decorate Your Home with Memories from Your Journeys

    Bring your travel memories to life

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    Personal

    30 Before 30: A Bucket List for That Looming Birthday

    30 Before 30: A Bucket List for That Looming Birthday

    Bucket lists don’t always have to be exciting, and this one certainly isn’t.

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