Travelogger

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

3 Tips for Keeping Your Family Safe While Traveling

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While traveling with your whole family can be a fun adventure, it also means that you’re accepting a certain amount of risk for your family members. Especially for parents, this can cause you to feel a lot of stress about whether or not your children are safe at all times during your travels. Luckily, with a little planning and forethought, you can address a lot of safety issues you might be concerned with before you even start your trip. To help you do this, here are three tips for keeping your family safe while traveling. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 10, 2018 @ 4:58 am

Tips For Handling A Family Welcoming Retreat

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When a child is about to enter the world, there is a cause for celebration. The longer this world goes on spinning, the more the family unit changes and there are so many aspects of life that change with it. Schools are falling behind in academics and social skills. So, more and more families are choosing to homeschool. Businesses are becoming more and more insensitive to the rigors of home life.

So, men and women, alike, are choosing to work from home and become their own boss when available. Even family vacation destinations are being overwhelmed with worldly tendencies and insensitivity to what the nuclear family should be and shouldn’t be exposed to. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 27, 2017 @ 1:02 pm

Using Travel To Bring a Family Together

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There are several different ways to try and bring your family together. But, one that tends to be a little bit more successful than others is if you use travel to your advantage. This might mean something like taking a vacation together, and if you at least maintain the focus on bonding members of your family with each other, you may have a slightly different set of options you’d like to choose from.

For instance, think of using travel like family therapy, or camping in order to bond over tough experiences, or using travel to get rid of distractions, or even potentially just traveling somewhere that there are a lot of other families so that you can feel that sort of concurrent energy in the air. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 20, 2017 @ 8:32 am

3 Tips for Preparing Your Home Before Taking A Long Trip

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Taking a long trip or vacation can work wonders for helping to recharge your batteries and giving you renewed interest and motivation in life. But before you head to the airport, gas station, or train depot, you’re going to want to make sure you’ve prepared your home for your absence. Not only will coming home to a clean and safe home after your long trip help you feel more relaxed and welcome, but it will also let your mind rest easier all throughout your trip. To help you in this area of preparing for your trip, here are three tips for readying your home before taking a long trip.

Take Care of Your Food

Many travelers remember to do things like unloading the washing machine and locking the doors before they head off on a trip, but things like food in the kitchen often gets forgotten. If this happens to you, you could be coming home to some science experiments in the fridge and some questionable smells wafting all throughout the house. To avoid this, HGTV recommends emptying out your fridge, cabinets, and pantry of any food that will go bad in the time you’re gone. Also, it’s a good idea to clean out both your refrigerator and microwave to get rid of any spills or dropped food that could be unsightly upon your return. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 25, 2017 @ 9:34 am