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Tween Boy Clothes 2018 : Holiday Travel Wear

October 16, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Tween boy clothes are just caught in the middle.  Not a little boy and not the man size of the budding teen. My tween likes it all! Dress up to “soft pants” the track pants that get him to school and back.  A fall trip to Europe gave us the chance to look at all…

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Create a Teen Boy Travel Capsule Wardrobe For Less

September 11, 2018 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Hey, let’s face it, as they get bigger the clothes get more expensive!  I don’t even want to talk about the shoes!  My focus for our teen boy travel capsule wardrobe was shoes and coats.  Wandering around London and Paris in the rain is no fun with soggy feet and chattering teeth. My jeans and…

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"The shuttle stopped running at midnight, Ma'am;" the night desk man croons in my ear.  Not the lullaby I wanted to hear at the moment, after driving 4 hours to the airport to catch a 9 PM flight out of Denver.  Travel glitches how do you handle them?

Travel Glitches and How to Solve Them

July 13, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Gliding up the escalator at 12:05 am in the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, I called the front desk of the hotel I booked for the night.  “The shuttle stopped running at midnight, Ma’am;” the night desk man croons in my ear.  Not the lullaby I wanted to hear at the moment, after driving 4 hours to the airport to…

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How to Find the Best Free Camping

How to Find the Best Free to Luxury Camping

April 28, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

The differences between free to luxury camping are the amenities.  Think basic room with four walls and a bed for your free camping–a Motel 6.  While in a Grand Hotel,  say the Waldorf Astoria NY, NY, there are still 4 walls and a bed but vastly different amenities. Often called disbursement camping, free camping on…

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What you Need to Know to Easily get your Child’s Passport

April 12, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

So you decided on a family trip out of the country.  You found a time, set the budget, picked up plane tickets and booked the lodging.  Now to get your child’s passport.   Where do you start? Getting ready for a trip in the states? Take a look our camping prep for a 3 week trip….

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How to Travel Internationally With Kids

April 10, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

I stared at the ticket agent.  After many domestic flights with my children, I was attempting to travel internationally with kids, my kids! My boys were loading the luggage onto the scales as the ticket agent said it again.  Did I have a signed notarized document from the boys’ father that they could travel internationally with me? Alone?…

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How to Find the Best Free Camping

How to Find the Best Free Camping

December 12, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Free camping is abundant!  Often called disbursement camping many of our public lands offer camping off the beaten path for free.  Defined by the USDA Forest Service as: dispersed camping is the term used for camping anywhere in the National Forest OUTSIDE of a designated campground. Dispersed camping means no services; such as trash removal,…

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How to Winterize Your Vintage Travel Trailer #vintagecamper

How to Winterize Your Vintage Travel Trailer

December 9, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Closing up the Vintage Travel Trailer for the winter hits me hard every year.  Summers last a millisecond in Colorado.   Winter arrives in late October hanging around sometimes through April.  Forgetting to Winterize your Vintage Travel Trailer in this harsh climate is a big mistake! (Be sure to click here for gifts for the vintage camper lover…

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Best Gifts for Vintage Camper Lovers

November 3, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

I fell in love with vintage campers 5 years ago.  The 1968 Sorrento Scotty luxury model made me a vintage camper lover, I even carried a picture of it in my purse for a while! lots of windows!  Great lines and small enough to back-country camp. Well, finding one was another story.  Hard to find and…

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How to Make Easy Ooozzing Pumpkins for Halloween

October 29, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 1 Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Got your pumpkin all carved but it needs a little something.  Humm, how about an oozing pumpkin with neon green, or pink or even purple slim bubbling out of its mouth.  Green goo sliding out of you pumpkin’s mouth for Halloween trick-or-treaters is so easy!  The simplest way uses house hold ingredients that are safe…

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