Category: Recommendations
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22 Road Trip Essentials to Pack in the Car
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According to a 2024 survey, 63% of travelers this year plan to hit the road on a road trip instead of flying somewhere. Personally, we think driving can be one of the best ways to see the country. With more and more people taking advantage of close-to-home destinations, we wanted…
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Our Must-Have Essentials for a Year-Long Jet-Setting Adventure
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Packing up our lives into one suitcase and a couple of backpacks was a learning experience for both of us. Determining the items you need vs. things you want, organizing, reorganizing, and then starting over again because you must pair it down even more. We wanted to share the must-have…
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Best Surfing Apps for Weather, Tracking, and More (Updated 2024)
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A list of the surfing apps I use daily to check the conditions.
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Meat Substitutes – Our 10 Favorites
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May is the perfect month to feature some of our favorite meat free options. There is currently a shortage of meat in the grocery stores with the pandemic happening. I shared a few of our favorite recipes here and wanted to dive into a couple options to help you turn…
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How We Stay Active at Home
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With all that is going on in the world right now, I’m sure that everyone is feeling as cooped up as we are. For the last year, we have been able to hike and explore every day. Our FitBits buzzed daily with our 10,000 step goal without any second thought.…
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Favorite Books – Spring 2020
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After a full month in social isolation, we have read a few new books. It hasn’t been as easy to concentrate as we would have liked, but there are still some good ones we wanted to recommend. Hopefully you are finding some quiet time in your day to read a…
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Sanity During Isolation: 12 Ways We Stay Entertained
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We are officially on Day 6 of self isolation/quarantine/distance/sheltering in place/safer at home – whatever the government officials are calling it these days. Eggs are the only staple food we are completely unable to find at the moment, but we have at least 8 rolls of TP so we are…
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Social Distancing, Kindness and Staying Entertained
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I’m writing this from the dining room table of a beautiful bungalow in San Diego. We are currently dog/house sitting for a wonderful couple that is vacationing in Central America for two weeks. Our plan for our time back in the United States was to use Trusted Housesitters to get…
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Favorite Books – Winter 2020
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It has been a few months since we shared this list of favorite books. Since a list for the whole year is a little overwhelming, we decided we would post every couple of months. There is a little overlap because we often convince each other to read books we have…
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Some Gift Ideas That Don’t Suck and Do Some Good
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‘Tis the season of giving. We are opting out of holiday gifts this year and it is hard. I love finding gifts for friends and family, but it definitely comes with a little stress and pressure also if you can’t find something for every person on your list. I’m hoping…