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  • Where to Stay in Edinburgh: The Rutland Hotel

    My biggest complaint with The Rutland Hotel is that I didn’t get to stay longer. I loved this hotel. I mean loooooved it. I could probably live here. The Rutland is an awesome boutique hotel located in the heart of Edinburgh just off Princes Street. The hotel boasts 12 totally unique rooms combining modern, baroque, and

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  • How to Budget for a Trip

    via with my edits When most people find out how much I love travel, their top question is usually some derivative of: how do you afford it? To be perfectly honest, I’m never quite sure how to answer that question. I often wonder the same thing when reading round-the-world travel blogs.

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  • Snowy Pennsylvania

    One thing I always hope for and look forward to when I take a trip to PA during the winter is the snow. I’ve been disappointed for the past several years–it always comes too early or too late for my arrival there. But this year, it snowed not once, but twice while I was home visiting

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  • A Year in Travel: 2012 Recap

    In 2012 I did a healthy amount of traveling. It certainly wasn’t as much as I’d have liked, but on a budget and while maintaining a full-time job (and even getting a promotion!), I think I did pretty alright.

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  • South Central Pennsylvania

    I’m headed home to good old south central Pennsylvania for the holidays. I leave tomorrow and will spend five wonderful days visiting my family and friends. I realized that I’ve never written much about where I’m from. I guess when you live in a place your entire life it’s hard to think of it as

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  • Photos: Bruges

    As cliché as it may be, after seeing In Bruges, I knew I needed to visit this historic city. While watching the movie, I found myself totally drawn to the backdrop and already scheming ways in which I could go. On my most recent visit to the Netherlands, I convinced my lovely friend, Beata, to take

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  • Photos: Garvan Woodland Gardens

    When I visited Little Rock a few months ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Garvan Woodland Gardens. It was an incredibly muggy and miserably hot day, especially for early-September, but it was worth all the sweat and flush face. There were a few highlights from the walk around the grounds: the curved wooden bridge; the cave

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  • Flagstaff and Sedona, Arizona

    I went to Phoenix for Thanksgiving to visit family and we decided to take a little adventure to Flagstaff and Sedona. I’d been to both before, but only for a brief time, and to be honest, it was so many years ago that I didn’t remember a lot about them.

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