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What are the New Travel Rules in 2025?
If you plan to travel anywhere in 2025, you’ll want to stay updated on the latest new travel rules. REAL ID Starting May 7, 2025, your state driver’s license or identification card will need to be REAL ID-compliant if you wish to travel domestically by air and/or enter certain government facilities. If your ID has…
Read MoreBooking Preferences for Business Travel
When I travel for work, I usually take care of all of my own bookings. However, when an event organizer asks me for my business travel preferences because they want to handle everything, I have my list of requests ready to go. I recently updated my travel booking preferences, so I thought I’d share it…
Read MoreTravel Tips for Business Travelers
While travel might have returned to pre-COVID levels for many companies, the level of on-time transportation reliability and schedule options have not. If you’re on vacation and experience travel hiccups, it can be quite a let-down. If you’re traveling for business, travel issues can bump you into a different level of stress. Whether you’re a…
Read MoreWhat Is the Best Pill Organizer for Travel?
This past summer, more clients than ever escaped from work and enjoyed some sort of get-away. Hooray! I’m a big proponent of taking time off from work in order to relax and recharge because that helps improve your health and productivity. The whole reason I wrote my fourth book, The Great Escape: A Vacation Planner…
Read MoreTravel Planning Tips for Summer 2023
When my husband and I initially started our travel planning last year for our summer 2023 travel, COVID-19 was still a part of the landscape. While COVID is still a concern for those at higher risk and when traveling to countries where it remains an issue, what travel planning has evolved into is planning around…
Read MoreTravel Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines Holiday Debacle
Unless you cut yourself off from society for the last two weeks of 2022 and first week of 2023, you’ve already heard plenty about the Southwest Airlines meltdown over the 2022 holidays. One million people were affected by their delays and cancellations. My husband and I were two of them. We were able to…
Read MoreIs Travel Insurance Worth It?
Many moons ago, I used to be dead set against travel insurance. I thought it was a waste of money until about five years ago. I blogged about that mind shift here: Travel Insurance Part 1 Travel Insurance Part 2 About three years ago, I discovered annual travel insurance plans from Allianz. I’d been…
Read MoreTravel Tips as We Emerge from COVID
Normally I plan our travel adventures 6 to 12 months out. Some folks think that’s way too far ahead because plans could change. But for us, our vacation is something we look forward to, so we won’t let anything get in the way of our plans. Once we say we’re going somewhere, we’re going. And…
Read MoreTravel During COVID
Travel During COVID During our 2022 Village Italy Adventure, I shared these recommendations. Hopefully we won’t have to worry about this, but if we do, this information will be updated as necessary. From 2022: A worldwide pandemic sure does put a damper on travel. Yes, COVID-19 is a serious virus, and it’s critical that everyone…
Read MoreVacation Planning in 2020 aka How to Take a Vacation When Travel Is Uncertain Due to COVID-19
Vacation planning isn’t necessarily at the top of everyone’s priority list, but each year most folks plan at least a one- or two-day break away from work. Maybe your getaway is normally spent a few hours’ drive away or a short flight away in another state or a long flight away overseas. But what about…
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