Travel Tips
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Trip Budget Breakdown: 1 Fall Week in Greece
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…
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Budget Travel Tips from a Frugal Financial Pro
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…
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Tips for Navigating Train Travel in a Foreign Country
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…
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Useful Italian Travel Phrases
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…
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Trip Budget Breakdown: 2 Weeks in Italy
I’ve seen a lot of travel sites that talk about their trips, but almost never give people an idea of how much a similar trip would cost. I think transparency is important, which brings me to my new series – Trip Budget Breakdowns. First up: how much our two week…
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Traveling as a Mixed-Budget Millennial
For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out how to describe my mindset/style when it comes to a travel budget. On one hand, I’m definitely not a budget traveler. You won’t find me staying in a hostel or scouring the internet for the best flight deal on a budget airline.…
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Which Trusted Traveler Program is Right for You?
Getting through security at the airport may be one of my least favorite parts of traveling, and it seems like wait times just keep getting worse. Thankfully, there is a way to avoid these long security lines! Customs and Border Protection (CBP) run the Trusted Traveler programs (minus Clear, but…
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Essential Travel Accessories || Short Girl Favorites
The more you travel, the more you realize there are certain items you just can’t have a successful trip without. Obviously travel essentials can vary based on the particulars of a trip, like sunscreen and a bathing suit for the beach or snow pants and goggles for a ski trip.…
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Trip Planning Advice from an Anxious Over-Planner
Planning a trip, whether domestic or international, can be difficult even under normal circumstances. But what do you get when you combine my neurodivergent brain with my husband’s more technically focused one? The perfect storm for trip over-planning, of course. Now I’ve been told on numerous occasions that I “overdo…
