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Everything You Need to Know to Love Lake Buchanan Near Austin Texas

September 25, 2025

If you’re looking for a fun weekend trip from San Antonio or Austin, Texas, then Lake Buchanan may be just the ticket. We spent two days in the area with our niece and it was lovely. We live in San Antonio so it was an easy drive for us but it would also be an easy trip from Austin. Here’s what you need to know to love Lake Buchanan. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means I get a portion of the sales if you make a booking through my link at no extra cost to you! Top Travel Resources After decades of traveling, there’s 3 companies I tend to use over and over and recommend to everyone: Lake

Everything You Need to Know Before Visiting Garner State Park

August 28, 2025

Garner State Park is a gem in the Texas Hill Country. If you want classic rolling hills and river time, then this is the place you need to go. As an added bonus, they have dance parties! In the summer months, at night there’s a dancing up by the visitor center complete with a jukebox. Yes, for real. However, the best part of Garner is the Frio river. It’s one of the nicest rivers in Texas and a great place to cool off in the hot summer months in Texas. All this makes Garner a very popular state park and therefore there’s things you definitely need to know before you visit and I’m here for that very reason. This post

Travel Experiences You Need to Add to Your Bucket List

May 15, 2025

One of my favorite trips we have ever taken was to Southeast Asia. We hit Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. A close second to this is Morocco, Tahiti, and Fiji. I’m sharing my round of bucket list experiences you need to have in these places. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means I get a portion of the sales if you make a booking through my link at no extra cost to you! Top Travel Resources After decades of traveling, there’s 3 companies I tend to use over and over and recommend to everyone: Southeast Asia Travel Bucket List First up is a place we were able to travel to while living in Australia, Southeast Asia. We headed to Singapore,

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The Best Australia & New Zealand Experiences You’ll Love

May 8, 2025

If you know me for more than an hour, you’ll probably find out I lived in Australia and I love the country a whole lot. A close second is New Zealand and if they had better beaches, I would have wanted to live there too. From that time there we traveled around a lot and there’s a few experiences that stick with me to this day. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means I get a portion of the sales if you make a booking through my link at no extra cost to you! Top Travel Resources After decades of traveling, there’s 3 companies I tend to use over and over and recommend to everyone: Australia & New Zealand

European Travel Experiences You Will Love

April 28, 2025

Do you love to travel? Are you constantly adding places to your travel bucket list? I get it. I’ve been there. In fact, I’m still there. These are my favorite travel experiences you should definitely add to your travel bucket list. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the best travel experiences I’ve ever had. Then, with all the things being cancelled and everyone staying in, I began to wonder if my cancelled trips really mattered. However, that then raised a bigger question of does travel matter? And I’m here to tell you it does. It’s critical to my well-being personally but I also truly believe it’s critical to a well-balanced world. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means

9 USA Bucket List Travel Experiences You Will Love

April 21, 2025

Unique Spring Getaways in The Texas Hill Country You Will Love

March 17, 2025

Spring in the Texas hill country is lovely and it’s the perfect time for a getaway! There’s a lot of unique spring getaways to stay in the area and I’m going to give you a round up of them today. Full disclosure: I have not stayed in all these places but they all have great reviews and it’s definitely a list of places I want to stay in! I love a unique place to stay when I’m planning to spend time relaxing. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means I get a portion of the sales if you make a booking through my link at no extra cost to you! Top Travel Resources After decades of traveling, there’s 3

When is the Best Time to Visit the Texas Hill Country

March 2, 2025

I’m not going to lie to you, I’m pretty biased about when to visit the Texas Hill Country. the perfect time of year is really non-negotiable to me. It’s spring and no other time is better. We don’t really get “fall”. Sure, there’s a few places with some fall colors but the real color comes in the Spring. And really, winter is mostly Jan-Feb when you’re over it and summer is very hot. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means I get a portion of the sales if you make a booking through my link at no extra cost to you! Top Travel Resources After decades of traveling, there’s 3 companies I tend to use over and over and

How to Find Bluebonnets in the Texas Hill Country

January 22, 2025

Bluebonnets are a Texas hill country icon and so you would think they wouldn’t be hard to find. And in some years, that’s true. However, they greatly depend on the amount of rain we have had during winter and when it’s low, it can be much harder. You also need to know where to go that’s safe and NOT on someone’s property. Please don’t trespass, this is Texas, you could get shot (seriously). However, there is hope! There are a lot of people who work very hard to find the flowers and they are willing to share. Which is why I’ve rounded up the best resources to find bluebonnets in the Texas Hill Country. If you want to find those

The Best Experiences You’ll Love to Add to Your Travel Bucket List

May 14, 2020

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