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Some of Cape Air's planes have Nantucket Airlines livery.  Samara is happy with either.

The Best Way to Get from New York to Provincetown

When I was growing up, there were two places we would go for summer vacation each year:  Montauk, at the end of Long Island, or Provincetown, at the end of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.  Montauk was always a good time, but Provincetown was really special.  Whereas Montauk was only about two hours from our home […]

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Canadian Via Rail Train compartment with Infant

Traveling by Train with an Infant

When our baby girl was just two months old, we decided we needed a little change in scenery. Make that a lot of scenery. With Dave’s abundant vacation time, and my maternity leave, it was the perfect time for our first transcontinental train journey! We would be taking The Canadian train across Canada with our infant. We […]

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Spices for Sale at Durban's Victoria Street Market

The Top 10 Street Markets, Bazaars and Souks in the World

Exploring street markets can be the highlight of any destination and I’ve been lucky enough to explore my fair share from around the world.  The following are my top ten favorites and they span the globe from South East Asia to Africa to the Middle East and Australia.  Have you been to a market that […]

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Great Ocean Road Australia - Driving on the Left

How to Drive on the Left Side of the Road

While most of the world drives on the right side of the road, there are many popular destinations that like to switch things up by driving on the left. But if you’re used to driving on the right, how do you drive on the left side of the road? My first encounter with this was […]

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American Passport with chip

How to Get a Visa for Traveling

I have to say that I’ve been spending way too much money on visas this year.  We first went to India in January on our honeymoon so we both had to get 6 month visas to enter the country ($76).  Now we will be returning to India again in February ($76).  We are also going […]

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Sea Plane over Maldives Atolls

How to Use Your Frequent Flier Miles to Fly for Free

A few weeks ago, I shared some tips for earning frequent flier miles.  Next up is how to use these frequent flier miles to actually fly for free (also known as “award travel”).  It is absolutely true that earning miles is only half the battle.  You can accumulate miles forever and ever, but actually using […]

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Stop sign in San Juan Puerto Rico

Getting by on High School Spanish

I’m pretty bad at learning languages.  I took Spanish for 5 years in high school and 1 year in college and I can carry on a conversation that a four year old would have.  I can cover the following: The weather, but only if its sunny or snowing.  Maybe raining.  I could probably guess at […]

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All Nippon Airways to New York Boarding in Tokyo

How to Earn Miles and Fly for Free

As I boarded the plane to Costa Rica, the scan of Dave’s boarding pass showed that he was now sitting in seat 4D, not 21E as his old boarding pass had said.  Well, 4D is pretty close to the front, which meant that my loving husband had been upgraded to first class while I was […]

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