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    Why We Travel

    September 25, 2020 Read More
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    DC like a local: Cherry Blossoms

    March 18, 2018 Read More
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    Welcome Aboard!

    August 19, 2016 Read More
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    Best Cherry Blossom Experience in Washington DC

    March 9, 2016 Read More
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    Wanderlust Friday

    February 5, 2016 Read More
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    HTL Travelers’ Gift Guide: 2015

    December 11, 2015 Read More
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    Who, What, Where, When and How of TBEX

    November 27, 2015 Read More
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    Castle Hopping in Albania

    November 17, 2015 Read More
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    Should you Attend a Travel Blog Conference?

    November 6, 2015 Read More
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    One day in Tirana, Albania

    November 3, 2015 Read More
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    How to Travel with an Office Job

    October 23, 2015 Read More
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    Skopje, Macedonia – A Study in Contrasts

    October 21, 2015 Read More
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    Skopje, Macedonia – A Study in Contrasts

    One of the biggest clichés in travel writing is how this one place or that other place is full of contradictions. Grand, old buildings mixed-in with cutting edge, modern architecture, a striking mix of…

    October 21, 2015
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    Belgrade’s Warring Identities

    So, where are you from? – oh, you are Russian? No wait, you don’t have an accent… Oh you are American too? After many such conversations in a course of a year plus in…

    October 8, 2015
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    Wanderlust Friday

    Driving through the Everglades National Park, Florida.  So many things to talk about today! First a BIG announcement — one half of our team (me!) is going to be attending TBEX in Fort Lauderdale,…

    October 2, 2015
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    One Year

    The magic hour in LA, California. It’s hard to believe we’ve been back in the US for one year. What’s it been like? Wonderful. We’ve watched close friends get married and have babies. We’ve…

    September 18, 2015
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    Traversing the Balkans

    Pet the Goat – a cool game you can play while driving down the Albanian one-way highway. Having read a bit about transport in and across the Balkans, I was slightly petrified of what…

    September 15, 2015
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    Wanderlust Friday

    PCH. On the road through Muir County, CA. We’ve had massive 17 days. We were on the road with no stops till Brooklyn (eerrr Bloomingdale, Washington DC) from East Coast to West Coat and…

    September 11, 2015
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    DC Like a Tourist: Chinatown

    We love playing tourist in our town of Washington D.C. – it’s not unusual for us to take a day off and wander about the national monuments, go to a museum, have a fancy…

    August 19, 2015
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    Wanderlust Friday at the Beach

    My family visited us for a few days last week, which gave me an excuse to plan out all sorts of cool itineraries around the glorious tourist mecca that Washington DC becomes in the summer. We…

    July 31, 2015
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    DIY Danube Bend Trip

    If the number of posts (4!) about just one city is any indication, it was pretty hard for us to let go of Budapest. We had all sorts of grand plans to see the…

    July 29, 2015
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    Budapest Thermal Baths

    “I am going to visit Gellért baths this afternoon” , I casually offered Sergey towards the tail end of our stay in Budapest. I fully expected Sergey to stay behind. Outdoor wave pool at…

    July 22, 2015
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    Wanderlust Friday

    We have had some personal life changes around here connected to jobs and house renovations, which made everything else a bit hectic. However, we've also had a super relaxing half week at the beach…

    July 17, 2015
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    Hungry in Hungary

    I hope y’all are enjoying my pun. Because I have been wanting to write it for a year now — basically ever since our first meal in Budapest. Because we ate like there was…

    July 15, 2015
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