Category: Vote for Travel Series 2016
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Vote for Healthy Eating While Traveling
What a conundrum to eat healthy while traveling! I admit, it takes a little planning not to go rogue on your health and completely succumb to the demise of your willpower while traveling. I should be clear up front that I, by no means, am discussing deprivation of delighting oneself in vacation food-fare! Because this…
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Vote for Wine Country Travel with Kids
Because of our love of wine and travel, and my husband Luis’ wine career, we’ve been blessed to visit, live in, and even work with incredible wineries all over the world, many of them with one or both of our boys along for the adventure. In doing so, we have harvested an even greater love and…
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Vote for Special Needs Family Travel
Life Changing Moments Achieved Through Travel My daughter, 4, boomerangs up and down the stairs to a waterslide meant for children much older. She has charmed a lifeguard in Jamaica into believing she can handle this, and she does, repeatedly, beaming each time. By the end of the day, they have nicknamed her “Baby Girl” and “Fish.”…
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Vote for Long Term Family Missions
Three years ago, our family sold most of our belongings and bought one-way tickets to Northern Ireland. We joined a missions organization there, to serve as support staff. It was a leap-of-faith, to say the least! Leaving behind our home, family and friends for the unknown was a risky move, yet, we had a peace that’s hard…
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4 Reasons to Vote for Historic Travel
I love history. But perhaps more than history, I love historic places. I love walking down cobbled streets, discovering local restaurants in centuries-old buildings and snapping insta-perfect shots in front of quaint cottages. The pace of vacation invariably slows down as we stop to read historical markers, explore sites and museums and imagine ourselves living…
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Vote for Traveling With Uncommon Kids
We’d all like to think we’re uncommon, but what exactly does that mean? Let’s face it, most of us have seen the tantrums and breakdowns while on vacation – if not in our own kids, then in other families. And chances are, it can be witnessed multiple times at expensive amusement parks you’ve saved…