Traveling with your kiddo(s) and wondering how you can be well prepared? Here are 10 practical tips for traveling with a toddler to help make your trip easier...with less stress & more fun! I'm passionate about traveling the world and seeing as much as I can, and I knew I wanted to continue traveling often after I became a mother. Exploring new places and getting out of my comfort zone brings me a lot of joy, and I wanted to mold my daughter into a good little traveler as early on as possible. When Camryn was just a couple of weeks old, we ventured out on a little road trip from our place in New England to visit my parents on the Jersey shore - and we've been traveling often ever since. Traveling with a little one certainly hasn't always been easy - hello, months of ... [Read More]
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5 Tips for Road Tripping with a Dog
"Life is short and the world is wide." I adore traveling, and I'm obsessed with my dog.... but rarely do I combine the two. Typically when I travel, my pup goes off to play at the "pet resort" with her friends. Considering my dog gets anxious in new environments and isn't great in the car, I find that it's usually easier to leave her at her normal kennel spot (and I've got the pet resort bills to prove that I do this often!). However, when my husband and I moved 3,000 miles from California to the northeast in August/September, we elected to send all of our stuff in a pod and drive my car cross-country - our pup in tow. I was a bit nervous for our sanity with having our dog in the car with us for 45 hours, but we survived! Harley also became a much better passenger during the ... [Read More]
3 Ways I Save Money on Airfare
Hi friends! I just got back from Kauai, where I had an amazing getaway with my husband. We hiked, zip lined in the tropical forest, relaxed on the beach, went swimming in the ocean, ate good food, enjoyed some drinks, and explored the beautiful island together. I didn't want to leave, though we really packed a lot in in the short time we were there. I will be sharing more about my trip soon, but today I want to talk about another travel topic: my favorite ways to save money on airfare. I travel often and love getting a good deal on flights. In recent years, I feel like I've become pretty good at planning travel (and I really enjoy it!), so I thought I'd share a few of my favorite ways to save money on airfare. Use Hopper to monitor flights. One of my favorite travel ... [Read More]
How I Avoid Getting Sick While Traveling
I used to get sick all the time when I traveled, particularly when going to a place with a different climate. Actually, the only times I've gotten sick in recent memory is when I'm on the road or just got back from being away. I wound up with a nasty cold a bunch of Christmases in a row after traveling from California to the northeast to be with family. And because I have allergies and my sinuses can get funky with the altitude of flying, I've even wound up getting ear infections a few times when I'm far from home. Because sick at home is annoying enough, but being sick when you're out of town exploring a new area, or trying to get some relaxation in and spend quality time with family? It's no fun my friends! But the good news is that I haven't gotten sick during/after travels ... [Read More]
5 Exercise Mantras I Hold While Traveling
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." I've been on the east coast visiting my family in Jersey for over a week. Between fitting in seeing my loved ones, being in the midst of my parents doing a major kitchen renovation (I'm excited to cook & bake in their new, beautiful kitchen the next time I come home!), and still working while I'm here, things have been very busy! Some trip highlights have included spending time down the shore with my parents while the weather has been gorgeous & mild here, and catching up with girlfriends from both college and high school. Oddly enough, when I left San Diego we were having a serious heatwave, and when I got to Jersey, it was unusually cool for the beginning of September. After living in a house that was a sweaty 85 ... [Read More]
7 of My Go-To Healthy Habits While Traveling
Hello, hello! I'm back home in California after a successful work trip in Las Vegas, followed by 5 days full of family celebrating my brother getting married in New Jersey. It was quite the trip, and as per usual, I'm feeling like I love traveling, but I also love coming home. I'm ready to be home without life being quite so chaotic as it has been the past month! {Check out my Instagram for more wedding weekend photos!} On my flight home last night, I started thinking about the healthy habits that I routinely do when I'm on the road. I tend to splurge more when I'm traveling [translation: eat dessert a lot and enjoy alcoholic beverages daily!] than I do when I'm home, and these habits help to offset those extra things & make me feel healthy & happy. Here are 7 of my ... [Read More]