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Traveling with teens can be stressing and tricky. Yes, teens can be dramatic and make a trip unbearable. They're at that in between stage - not quite a child anymore, not quite an adult and everything and everyone are "LAME!" I've found one way to defuse a temperamental teen while traveling is to make them a travel journal kit. I began making my first travel journal when I was about 8 years old. I've kept one ever since for nearly every trip I've taken. Each one represents s

Viewers wrote me asking questions about flying commercially. I decided to answer those questions here as there are things going on behind the scenes in the commercial airline industry that I feel anyone who flies commercially need to be aware of for their own protection. Note that I am not a pilot. I've been behind the controls of a plane countless times just by virtue of having dated and married pilots, one of which was a commercial airlines pilot. I just had no interest in

I'm limited on number of pages I can have on the website so I'm putting this supplement to backpacking the Appalachian Trail here. I don't want anyone making the same stupid mistakes I did on my first venture into backpacking. OUTFITTING YOURSELF TO BACKPACK The most common mistake a novice makes (points to self) is buying the wrong size pack or an improperly fitting pack. We gals like to pack our "stuff" when we travel anywhere...but when backpacking ladies, you won't need a

Over my years of traveling I've put together some must have's I can't travel without. There's no faster way to put a damper on a vacation that discovering you don't have what you need once you're at your travel destination and having to run out and get it.   The new trend is to travel light (1 bag) with airlines setting more and more restrictions on weight. However, while that may be fine for personal vacations and the like, if you're traveling on business and will have to dr

Hi, I'm Pat and this is my sometimes travel buddy, Jay. (He's the one with the RV) We love traveling North America and seeing what mischief we can get into enroute. Which happens to be a whole lot as it turns out - now that we're both retired with way too much time on our hands. The only sign Motel 6 leaves on when they see the 2 of us coming is... ...which is how Jay ended up with The Beast (as I call his RV). I inherited the travel bug from my dad, who had me on road trips