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You’ll find Bartram’s Garden situated along the the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia. It wasn’t as big as I expected based on the acreage and Google Maps. It was a nice park, but if I’m being honest I was a bit underwhelmed based on how many sites recommended it being a must-visit. There weren’t as…
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Just across the Ben Franklin Bridge from Philadelphia, you’ll find the Adventure Aquarium on the riverfront in Camden, New Jersey. We decided to go on a Thursday morning with my brother and his family, thinking it’d be a bit less busy than on the weekend. Boy were we wrong. Apparently since it was the start…
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Located about a 45 minute drive up I-95 from Center City Philadelphia is the gorgeous Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. This 42-acre outdoor museum is part sculpture park and part arboretum, full of not just sculptures but also monuments, water features, and lots of nature. Founded in 1992 on the site of…
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I honestly flip flopped on whether or not to even write this post for a while. “What am I doing? I write about travel, not booktok books. Stay in your lane, stay focused.” But really, what better way is there to get through a travel day than with a good book? (And regardless, I reminded…
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Welcome back to the third installment of Will Travel for Coffee! Next up on my coffee shops review tour: Chestnut Hill Coffee Co in Philadelphia, PA, and Malvern Buttery in Malvern, PA. Unfortunately, this is the first time since starting this series that I’ve come across a coffee shop I probably wouldn’t go back to.…
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This particular trip was a special one: we were celebrating my mom’s birthday! She’d never been out of the country before (besides Canada) and had always wanted to go to Greece, so of course we wanted to make the trip extra memorable. This called for a slightly higher trip budget than usual. Our week-long trip…
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I don’t pretend to know everything. So for where my expertise/experience is lacking, I’ll be bringing in friends and family who know a bit more about certain topics than I do! – Allison Guest Contributor: Jenn M. – Financial Management Executive and Budget Travel Enthusiast Allison questions me all the time, “why do you choose…
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Every time we travel, I’m drawn to things ending in ‘-ery’ – whether that’s a meadery, cidery, winery, distillery, or brewery. I’ve gone behind the scenes at wineries in Greece, done a mead tasting in New Jersey, and a cidery tour in Boston, but somehow I don’t recall ever taking a brewery tour before this!…
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SGT Guest Contributor: Jasper – Electrical Engineer, Train Enthusiast, and Short Girl Travel Companion Allison has always had a knack for finding the best food and drinks wherever we have lived or traveled. However, when it comes to figuring out how we are going to be moving between cities during our adventures, I always prefer…
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If you’re visiting any large/touristy Italian city like Milan, Rome, Florence, or Venice, it is likely that many of the people you come across will speak at least a little bit of English. While that may be the case, in my opinion it is only polite to try to learn a little bit of their…
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