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Yearly Archives: 2015

Why Travel Needs to Be a New Years Resolution — Every year, people create New Years Resolutions in an attempt to make (insert any year) the best year ever!!!! What is the most common New Years Resolution? Well, it is absolutely no surprise to say it is in the “Health and Fitness” realm. After all, we all want to look […]

The Best New Years Resolution You Can Make

This entry was posted in Budget Traveling Travel Tips on December 28, 2015 by LeAnna Brown

Schloßplatz, Dresden – credit: cc. Björn flickr.com — Today’s post comes from the amazing blogger, Anna, over at UnexpectedGermany.com. While I may be your go to guru for Bavarian life, Anna knows the North like I know my Gluewein! Today, she talks about about an old, and delicious German tradition: Stollen. 5 Surprising Facts About Stollen Stollen is a […]

Guest Post- Delicious German Stollen

This entry was posted in Europe Germany on December 24, 2015 by LeAnna Brown

10 Must Haves for traveling with a baby- I love the idea of #4! — Not just little kids are entitled to Christmas Wish Lists! To be honest, I am actually not a big gift person when it comes to the Holidays. Mr. EE and I came to an agreement long ago that instead of spending money on each other, we’d rather save the money […]

10 Must Haves for Travel Gear for Babies

This entry was posted in Budget Traveling Travel Tips on December 10, 2015 by LeAnna Brown

Such great ideas for making Christmas special even while traveling — Growing up, we did not live where the rest of our extended family lived. That meant that each Holiday, we often packed up the car and headed to Grandma’s house. Looking back, I have no idea how my parents did it with four kids…but I often wonder how they did […]

How to Make Christmas Special No Matter Your Location

This entry was posted in Travel Tips on December 5, 2015 by LeAnna Brown

Being gone during the holiday can be HARD. All good tips to remember while traveling this Christmas — Some people choose to travel somewhere new over the holidays to get away for a few weeks during the winter months. Others live abroad and may not be able to afford a flight home or can’t get away from work long enough for that trans-atlantic flight. Regardless of which […]

Five Ways on How To Survive the Holidays Abroad and ...

This entry was posted in Travel Tips on December 3, 2015 by LeAnna Brown

What the heck!? What is this creepy Krampus character!? — “If your naughty, you’ll get a lump of coal!” So many parents love the Christmas season when they can start “threatening” telling their kids that only kids on Santa’s “good list” will get Christmas gifts. So, they better go Clean their room Not fight with their siblings Not […]

Krampus

This entry was posted in Travel Tips on December 1, 2015 by LeAnna Brown