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6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

How to plan your Weekend RV/Camping Trips so that they actually happen.🙂 In our family, we want weekend RV trips to occur frequently. But this takes some planning and some intention. Weekends away do not magically appear (nor does the budget to pay for campsites, or time to pack). I have discovered there are specific…

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

How to plan your Weekend RV/Camping Trips so that they actually happen.🙂 In our family, we want weekend RV trips to occur frequently. But this takes some planning and some intention. Weekends away do not magically appear (nor does the budget to pay for campsites, or time to pack). I have discovered there are specific…

Creating Vacation Harmony: Enjoying Moments Together

Creating Vacation Harmony: Enjoying Moments Together

RV travel and family vacations are very tricky to navigate.  There is a very wide mix of expectations and decisions to be made. The ways that we see the definitions of words like “fun”, “rest”, “activity”, and “food” can totally change what the trip looks like.  What may be working at home totally flips on…

What I Learned at the Beach House

What I Learned at the Beach House

The ocean is always been a bit of a mystery to me. Something that I watch on documentaries and that people talk about without my understanding. I am an Arizona desert native. I’ve lived in the Phoenix suburbs most of my life. I’ve never really enjoyed being in the water, getting sandy in unmentionable places,…

Leaving for a Trip is Hard!

Leaving for a Trip is Hard!

Leaving for a trip is hard. There’s just no way around it. There’s so much to think about, so many things to get done, so many decisions to make and checkboxes to check off. This summer I had the experience of going on a personal retreat. Jim and the kids stayed home and I went…

Maintaining Healthy Habits on Trips

Maintaining Healthy Habits on Trips

 A problem that we can run into is making good habits stick when we are on vacation. How do I keep moving forward in my health goals when I am in a different environment? What is the best way to plan for relaxation but not slide into old patterns? Decide the healthy choices that you…