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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Pirate’s Tower | Victoria Beach, California
A couple of years ago for work, I had the privilege of representing my company at a conference in Newport Beach, California. I volunteered to get there a day early so I could pick up the rental car and all the material we needed for the exhibitor booth. On my first day in Newport Beach I wanted to find a fun, trendy lunch spot. I googled a few places and found a restaurant called Sqirl. Sqirl was in East Hollywood. If you’re not from LA like me, East Hollywood and Newport Beach only looks like they’re about 30 minutes a part. Boy, I was wrong. It took me an hour…
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Culebra | Puerto Rico
A few years ago, Donovan and I traveled to Puerto Rico for a conference he was attending for work. Since the conference was a week long, I decided to tag along and enjoy some time on the beach. We spent the first few days in Puerto Rico at Wyndham Grand Rio Mar, east of San Juan. Unfortunately, our hotel room didn’t face the ocean, but we did have a pretty awesome view of the rainforest, which was literally across the street! We really enjoyed our time at the Wyndham, albeit I did spend one of the days completely hungover from too many painkillers at the pool bar. But that’s another…
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Ophir Pass | Ophir, CO
If you’ve been following the news at all, you’ve seen that Texas was majorly impacted by the winter weather that passed through this past week. Fortunately, we were lucky to have not experienced as much devastation as some of our friends and neighbors, but it was still a crazy week altogether. This weekend temperatures shot back up to the 60s and 70s which helped us get out of the cold weather funk and start thinking about what trips we want to take this year. Since we just booked our 3rd annual summer trip to Telluride, I figured I’d share about a fun experience we had near Telluride on our first…
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Meow Wolf | Santa Fe, New Mexico
With all the cold weather we’re having in Dallas this weekend, I keep reminiscing of memories of visiting the desert – somewhere warm! Our trip to Taos, New Mexico a few years ago did not disappoint. We hit up some really interesting places like Ojo Caliente and the El Santuario De Chimayo. Some of our friends from Dallas joined us on the trip, and one of the days we drove into Santa Fe to scout around. Donovan and his friend Jesse had been talking about this place called Meow Wolf all day, so the girls caved and we all decided to go check it out. The best way to describe…
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Ojo Caliente Spa | Ojo Caliente, New Mexico
A few weeks ago, I posted about our Easter trip to Taos, New Mexico and mentioned our afternoon at Ojo Caliente, so I wanted to share a bit more about our experience. When we were planning our trip to Taos, my parents told us about Ojo Caliente, the hot springs located near Taos. My dad joked and said Ojo Caliente was too rustic, and that we would be better spent at Ten Thousand Waves . We called both to try to set spa appointments, and Ojo Caliente had availability, so that’s where we decided to go! Ojo Caliente is an unincorporated community about an hour north of Santa Fe, but…
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Jacob’s Well | Wimberley, Texas
January always feels like the longest month of the year. It’s cold, gray, the holidays are over, and it’s back-to-work for everyone. Each year, in January, Dono and I try to take a weekend getaway to break up the monotony of the work routine. In previous January’s we’ve taken a weekend trip to Broken Bow, and we’ve also done a mini-road trip to Waco and Central Texas. We usually try to keep these trips short – only a Saturday/Sunday as we don’t want to impact our work PTO time so early in the year! This year, we decided to take a drive to Austin, Texas, which is about 3-ish hours…
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Taos, New Mexico
A few years ago, I found some really cheap airfare to Albuquerque for Easter weekend. If you know me at all, you know I’m a sucker for a cheap flight. Donovan groans every time I find affordable airfare because usually it means we have to ride coach. Ha! Someone has become accustomed to getting bumped up to first class! I went to Albuquerque/Santa Fe a few years prior with my parents, but I had never been to Taos. Donovan had never been to either location, so we felt this would be a good place to explore together. Because I booked the cheap flight, we were literally on the first flight…
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Aspen, Colorado
If you read our last post, you already know that we spent New Year’s weekend in Colorado. When we were planning the trip, we had a really hard time deciding where we wanted to stay. The thought of having an off-the-grid chalet or mountain house seemed really appealing, but I also knew we wouldn’t be able to sit still that long. Realistically, we considered booking a hotel room in Boulder, but then I had a random idea of driving to Aspen for a day, so ultimately we decided to stay downtown. That would give us the flexibility of driving to some ski towns, but also driving north to Rocky Mountain…
