Category: Inspiring Travel Stories

  • Five Boredom Busters for Kids while Flying

    Five Boredom Busters for Kids while Flying

    Flying isn’t always the most fun experience, especially when you have the kids tagging along for the ride. Long journeys aren’t a favorite for little ones, and it’s only natural they’ll start to get bored after a while. What can you do to prevent that from happening? Today, we’re going to run through five clever…

  • Ten Tips for Choosing a Vacation Rental

    Ten Tips for Choosing a Vacation Rental

    Even before my husband Luis and I were married, we’ve shared twenty years of travel experiences (fourteen with children) and one of our favorite ways to vacation is (almost) always in a vacation rental. Sometimes, we’ve rented with the “big ones” like Home Away, VRBO and AirBnB, other times it’s through a local property management…

  • Tips For Successful Vacation Rental Hosting

    Tips For Successful Vacation Rental Hosting

    After twenty years of traveling together as a couple (now fourteen with children) staying in vacation rentals while we travel is our favorite way. Since then, we’ve become successful vacation rental hosts. Our first experience staying in a guest home was when we were hosted in California wine country, in Napa, nestled deep in the vineyards. In 2004,…

  • Visit Paraguay

    Visit Paraguay

    18 Reasons to Visit Paraguay When you come to Paraguay you get to meet friendly people. See the land of contrast. Experience the culture. Drink tereré. Try chipa. Visit touristic places like the Jesuit Ruins and Iguazu Falls. These insider tips will help you make the most of your visit to Paraguay. Partner with a…

  • Visiting Africa? Read This First!

    Visiting Africa? Read This First!

    While the natural beauty of pretty much every other continent has been smothered by industrialization and development, Africa remains one of the last true frontiers of exploration and adventure. If you’re sick of cushy package holidays and endless strip malls, you may be very attracted to the idea of a trip to Africa. From skiing…

  • Travel Myths Busted

    Pexels.com One of the favorite shows in my household is Myth Busters. It’s time we busted some travel myths. Everyone has opinions on travel. Wherever you are traveling to for your next vacation, you will no doubt hear lots of people’s opinion on it. Some will have loved it when they visited, others won’t have.…