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For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
I’m a mom of 3, a full-time romance author, and I’ve been to more than 40 countries and nearly all the states.
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Americans Are Overpaying for Hotel Breakfast by an Average of $40 — And the Math Is Easy to Fix
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I Studied 23 Travel Disasters on Social Media — The Same Planning Gap Caused Almost All of Them
Travel disaster content gets enormous engagement on social media for the same reason true crime content does: it’s genuinely frightening…
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Sioux Falls Has Been South Dakota’s Fastest-Growing City for a Decade. Here’s What Brought People There
Sioux Falls, South Dakota has a population of about 200,000 people, sits on the Big Sioux River in the southeast…
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Roanoke, Virginia Has the Blue Ridge Parkway Running Through Its Backyard. Nobody Outside Virginia Knows This
The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in…
