5 steps to protecting yourself from tick-borne illnesses

Warmer climes and outdoor times will soon beckon us to lark in parks and tread on trails. Meaning it is once again time to remind ourselves on that dastardly denizen of the woods and weeds, the unen-deer-ing deer tick and its sometimes payload of woe and misery, Lyme disease. Lyme

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PSA – Eating and Drinking While Traveling in Thailand

Public Service Announcement (PSA) Guidelines for traveling in Thailand As a follow-up to my blog on the reality of things in Thailand. I would like to take this opportunity to caution any single woman traveling alone who prefer to travel off the beaten path without the benefit of a group, I would not recommend

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Thailand: The Reality of a Place

All travel photos I have ever seen of  Thailand depicts a magical place filled with amazing vistas and natural resources. Well it is true that Thailand has vistas like this. That’s me in the lower right hand corner. and these Thailand has beautiful vistas for sure. The thing is, if

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PSA – Thailand – Getting TukTuk’ed for a ride!

On the way from the airport to the hotel in  Bangkok Thailand, our tour company, Gate1 travel, gave us some tips and tricks for getting around in Bangkok as well as a few warnings about certain things to avoid. One of the warnings was, never get into a taxi or

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PSA – New Discoveries in Booking cheap flights. Skyscanner

I found a free travel app for my Android device that I’m pretty enamoured with, called Skyscanner. Like all airline travel booking apps, it does a great job in finding flights when you put in a starting location to leave from with the appropriate dates and put in a destination

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Lessons Learned From the TSA – Sequins on a Plane

Well today it finally happened. I’d been waiting for it, for years. I knew my number would come up eventually and today was the blessed day. Sometimes I wonder what took so long. I’ll keep you in suspense for a bit on what new exciting experience I had today. Now

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Feeling like a sardine in a can

Doing my laundry again, so I’m utilizing the time by posting another blog post. One of the touristy things people tell you to do is to take the 28 tram around Lisbon. I was in Lisbon a few months before I got around to it. Every local that I talked

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Learning a Language with Verbling

While I am on my Public Service Announcements kick in the blog and I’m sitting in the laudrymat in Lisbon waiting for my clothes, I might as well take advantage of this time. I’d like to give a shout out to a smartphone app and website known as Verbling. Suppose

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I learned I can tackle one of my biggest fears!

The Rato metro station near my Lisbon home has these crazy steep stairs with escalators on each side. One going up and one going down. There always seems to be at least 1 escalator that is out of order when I’m traveling on the metro. I always think man I

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LFTR – I learned I can tackle one of my biggest fears!

The Rato metro station near my Lisbon home has these crazy steep stairs with escalators on each side. One going up and one going down. There always seems to be at least 1 escalator that is out of order when I’m traveling on the metro. I always think man I

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Podcasts Featuring Margaret

Get Focused Episode 80

Episode 80: Meet Margaret Webster, author of “Lessons from the Road: USA”
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