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How To Eat Healthy While On Vacation
Eating healthy is hard enough during your regular schedule but if you are wanting to stick to your goals it can be even harder when you go on vacation. It’s easy to fall into the trap of “enjoying” your vacation, and all the fattening/unhealthy foods that go with it. I can’t stress enough, though, that a vacation is supposed to be just that…a vacation! So don’t stress yourself too much and enjoy your it! So here are some ways to still enjoy food on your vacation and not completely fall off the wagon! 1. Choose one meal each day to “splurge” on. This might sound like “cheating” too much but…
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How To Stay Safe When Traveling
Whether you are traveling alone or with family or friends, you should always take precautions to stay safe. Just because you might be staying in luxury hotels or staying with a friends, doesn’t mean you are immune to anything happening. Let’s take a look at what you can do to keep yourself safe. 1. Plan your routes This seems simple, but whether especially if you are driving, plan your routes to get to each destination. Look at all the different routes and what would benefit you more as well as keep you safe. Also plan to have to possibly detour in the event of accidents or road closures. We are…
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Why You Should Always Have a ‘Bug-Out’ Bag On Your Trip & What Should Be In It
Those doomsday preppers are crazy, right? Well not really, or not always. I’m a bit of a prepper myself. I don’t go all out, although there is nothing wrong with that, but I do find it significantly important to have things on hand in the event of a national or local disaster such as flash floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc which all end up causing a shortage of various supplies and food. But let’s look at this further. Say you are on vacation and a natural disaster does happen. You flew to your vacation destination and all rental cars are already taken so it looks like you are going to have…
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What You Should Know Before Taking Your Dog on Vacation
Nobody likes leaving their pooch at home when on vacation. Sometimes it’s hard to find someone trustworthy to watch them (and sometimes hard to trust your dog in someone else’s home ;P ) and the right boarder can be hard to find or maybe very expensive. So why not take your beloved family member along? Here are some things to consider when deciding whether to bring’em or leave’em. 1) Immunizations/Health Is your dog up to date on his/her immunizations? This is important whether you decided to bring them or leave them. If you are going to board them, they will require up to date immunizations. But, they should have them…
