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Festive Fun for Holidays in Texas You’ll Love

November 5, 2024

I’m gonna be real with you, holidays in Texas are not a Hallmark movie. There’s (probably) not going to be snow and it might even be hot. However, there’s still festive fun to be found! There’s a few towns around the hill country that go all out for Christmas, there’s also markets to get your holiday shopping done and plenty of Christmas lights to be seen. 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: Where to find Festive

Fun Halloween Activities Kids will Love in The Texas Hill Country

October 1, 2024

I love Halloween. The costumes, the candy, the spookiness, it’s all great. And even though it doesn’t always feel like fall outside in the Texas Hill Country, there’s still fun halloween activities to find! I’ve rounded up a list of family friendly Halloween activities in the area to help you celebrate the season! 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: Fun Halloween Activities Splashway Halloweekends Celebrate the fall season in Texas with our thrilling Halloweekends! From pumpkin

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10 Beautiful Places to Find Fall in The Texas Hill Country

September 3, 2024

When you think of fall fun, you don’t really think “hey, let’s go to Texas for that!” I don’t blame you. Fall is not my favorite time of year in the Texas Hill Country. However if you are looking for fall in the Texas Hill Country there are places you can go. Pumpkin patches to visit and even some fall foliage. 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: 10 Places for Fall in the Texas Hill Country

The Perfect One Day in Sedona Arizona and the One Tip I’d Love to Have Known Beforehand

July 11, 2024

We recently spent one day in Sedona, Arizona. Now before you scream at me for only spending a day there, don’t. Sometimes that’s all you have. Do I wish I had more? Of course, but I will go back. I really hate it when people tell someone to skip a place because that’s “just not enough time”. It’s rude and terrible advice. I once had someone bully me on social media because I only spent a day in London. A day was all I had and I had been to London before. I was more interested in the Lakes District of England and spent 10 days exploring that, which many tourists don’t do. This person was so relentless on social

How to Coordinate Your Disney Outfits for the Cutest Photos You will Love

June 4, 2024

Coordinate Instead of Matching Disney Outfits When looking at Disney outfits there is nothing I hate more than matching shirts. Yup, I said it, sorry but I’m not sorry. As a photographer, I hate it when my families show up to sessions all wearing the exact same thing. It’s just not interesting or real. Do you wear the exact same thing as every member of your family ever?! Then why do you do it for photos? Your photos should show each of your personalities! Not one big giant personality. Now, that’s not to say you shouldn’t coordinate outfits. And this goes for Disney too. You know the shirts I’m talking about, the ones that say “smith family trip 20xx” and

How the Saltwater Retreat Creative Photos I Love & You Should Try on Your Next Trip

May 23, 2024

I recently spent 5 days at the Saltwater Retreat in Virginia Beach and it was amazing. Jennifer Carr puts on a great retreat with so much love and fun packed in. It was five days of photography, nature, and meeting new friends. We were given BINGO cards of different creative photos to try and it really sparked my creativity. That’s why I’m challenging you to try them as well! 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: 18

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You’ll Love these 5 Family Friendly Texas Vacations in the Texas Hill Country

May 5, 2024

Summertime is upon us and more times than not I hear “I’m not ready for the heat” from so many people in the Texas Hill Country. And while, yes, I get it, it gets very hot, there’s a lot of ways to cool off! And many of them are very affordable. These five family friendly Texas Vacations are perfect for that. These are my top 5 spots to cool off in the Texas Hill Country. However they are also family-friendly so you won’t get a lot of drunk tubers coming by. 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!

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Everything You Need to Know to Visit the Enchanted Circle New Mexico

May 18, 2021

Why the Same Trip Can be the Best Trip Why are you going there? You’ve already been. Hands up if anyone has said this to you. This was said to us when we decided to visit the Enchanted Circle New Mexico. However, if you’ve ever returned to the same vacation spot over and over again, someone has probably said this to you. Usually, for me, it’s people who just don’t understand why my family would go camping in the exact same location every year, but we did. Or why we feel the need to go to Disney World every few years. Or why when summer hits in central Texas, I hit Schlitterbahn. Over and over again. Why? Because sometimes the

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How Many Days for the Perfect Yellowstone National Park Itinerary?

November 12, 2020

I’m going to be honest right off the bat with you: I LOVE Yellowstone National Park. It ranks right up there with Australia. I do believe it is the best National Park I’ve been to and that you must see it in your lifetime. It gets neglected a lot because it’s far, it’s huge, and it’s NOT a “drive thru” park. You need to plan a Yellowstone National Park Itinerary. It greatly pains me to speak to anyone that has been to Yellowstone and doesn’t love it. The reason for this is quite simple: they did it wrong. Yes, there is a right way and wrong way to do Yellowstone and I’m here to tell you how to make the

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

May 14, 2020

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

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