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Currently Out of the Office

We’re on a one-week family vacation! First time in almost a year. We’re at winter wonderland / gorgeously sunny Lake Tahoe. We arrived on a cold Sunday. Monday, it snowed. And today, we were making sandcastles on the beach. Franco…

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Sponsored Post: Cutting the Cost of Airport Parking

Cutting the Cost of Parking When you book airport parking it can feel like it’s another cost to add to the growing pile of holiday spends. Here are a few tips to help you cut the cost of airport parking…

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Sponsored Post: Holiday Deals and Discounts

If you’re looking for a cheap holiday this year or next, there are plenty of ways to help you get away on a holiday to remember without breaking the bank. One of the most popular methods is to book a…

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Sponsored Post: The Lowdown: Booking Your Holidays to Malia

It’s Malia 2013, is it? You cheeky thing, you. How exciting! But you’ve not got it booked? Amateur. Spring is well and truly in the air, if you haven’t yet booked your holidays to Malia for this summer, you better…

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Sponsored Post: Stay Comfortable in the Saddle: What to Pack for a Cycling Holiday

One of the major things that needs to be considered on a cycling holiday is comfort. If you find yourself straddling a saddle with an ache in your derriere within a half an hour, how are you going to cope…

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Roatan, Honduras

Weather here is magnificent. 80-90 degrees. 100% humidity which I don’t seem to mind. Fleeting rain and thunderstorms once or twice a day. Doesn’t bother me if it’s still warm and you can easily dry off. It was unbearably hot…

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Money Monday: Vacation Grand Total $

We’re going on vacation! Does it seem like we’re always going on vacation or is it that I talk about it incessantly? Our vacation schedule looks standard to me. 2012 February – LA March – Austin May – NYC July…

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Where in the World

Even though we just got back from Austin and we’re going to NYC in May, I cannot stop researching where next to go on vacation. There are so many places to explore in the world, why return to the same…

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Clueless and On Vacation

I think it’s sad that most people zone out when I talk about the arts. In New York, when I said I was going to the ballet, everyone asked where. Ummm, the Lincoln Center where it always is. Cmon people!…

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Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

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