Jim & Kathie Carter from Naperville, IL We left Chicago on April 29, 2018 to go on a planned three-month driving trip to Alaska. We met most of our group in Great Falls, Montana, and then traveled on to Cochran, Alberta for four or five days. On our last day there, Kathie had been […]
You book in a hurry—and get a non-refundable ticket for the wrong date. Or head out the door and get to the airport during rush hour—only to realize you left your passport in your side table drawer. The list of #travelfails can be pretty long and some can even be quite funny (unless they happen […]
Traveling with prescription medication is very common nowadays and more often than not, is no cause for extraordinary preparation. Other than carrying your prescription or leaving the pills in the bottle, there really isn’t too much for you to think about. Flying with medicine overseas, however, can be an entirely different proposition. In some countries, […]
School’s out and families are hitting the road, the airport, and the cruise piers for summer travel, so be prepared for crowds, lines, and general mayhem. Here are a few summer travel tips to help you sidestep the worst of it and have a thoroughly enjoyable vacation. Plan, plan, plan There’s no getting past […]
There are endless benefits to traveling, including making memories that can last a lifetime. Then there are the handful of cons, which can include some very unsavory souvenirs: bedbugs. These little guys have been around since the days of Aristotle and back in the 50s, people were acutely aware of prevention methods. However, thanks to […]
Pepe & Concha Gurski Ajijic, Mexico We live in Ajijic, Mexico and on December 27, 2017, my husband, Pepe, had internal bleeding from a stomach ulcer and was hemorrhaging. We went to the hospital in Guadalajara and this became an extreme emergency because they did not have his blood type and he needed surgery. We […]
