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8 Tips for a Budget-Friendly Summer Vacation

Soon, your kids will be out of school and pestering you about that trip to Disney World you promised you’d take them on 4 years ago. Unfortunately, you probably don’t have enough money saved up to deliver this year. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take a decent vacation and still have money left over [...]

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Joshua Tree National Park – Travel Photo of the Day

The Travel Photo of the Day is of Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park is located in California in the southeastern portion of the state. The park has many different unique types of vegetation including ocotillo, creosote bush, cholla cactus and, of course, the Joshua tree – as pictured here. »crosslinked« Related posts: [...]

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10 Tips for Your Caribbean Cruise

Caribbean Cruises can be an amazing experience for a first time and even experienced cruiser. Exotic ports of call and warm tropical weather is just a little of what you will experience. There are few things you’re going to have to remember. 10. Know Your Cruise Ship There are five basic categories which are the [...]

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22 Train Stations from Across the Globe

In today’s modern world with airplanes jetting around the globe, sometimes we forget how travel got its big start. Cross country trains and railroads were one of the first big steps in making travel accessible to everyone. Major metropolises like New York City built enormous railway terminals like Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station to [...]

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Three Best Churches in Paris

Paris is full of beautiful churches and you can stumble into quite a few of them just from random walking through the Paris streets. However, there are three famous Paris churches which really are too beautiful to miss. Notre Dame Cathedral is arguably Paris’s most famous church, or in fact one of the world’s most [...]

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Buildings of Snow and Ice

Ice.  It is quite literally the greenest building material on Earth.  Pure solid water.  What other type of building dissolves harmlessly back into our rivers when it is no longer needed?  But it doesn’t stop there.  When one says “green” and “environmentally friendly”, all to often the word that hides just below the surface is [...]