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How to reframe shame into a feeling of adventure-An Alaska travel story

Posted on May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 by Captiv8ed

You know how the smell of cigarettes sticks to your clothes and no matter how many times you wash a

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Mental Health and Wellness, All things travel
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Arrived at the airport for 4 days in Maui

4 Days in Maui: Beautiful time, with bonus trip to the ER!!

Posted on April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Quick trip: 4 days in Maui Although we have done some road trips in our area, our 4 day trip

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View from the window when flying Southwest

The ups and downs of flying Southwest-with 7 tips to make it easy

Posted on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 by Captiv8ed

People either love or hate Southwest The airline has a lot of fans, but there are many people who won’t

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Maui on a budget? Yes please!

Beautiful Maui on a budget-under $2000 for 2 People

Posted on March 26, 2022March 27, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Maui on a budget is possible!! Living in the Pacific Northwest means lots of wet, grey, dark days in the

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Luggage-trip planning

Where in the world?? Trip planning when you feel overwhelmed

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Trip planning can be so overwhelming!! When you could go just about anywhere in the world for the price of

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Anxiety and travel-here are 7 strategies that I find helpful

Posted on March 19, 2022March 20, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Travel is fun-anxiety is not Do you have anxiety and like to travel? I have some things that are helping

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Eagle statue in front of Mount Hood

How to tame your money with virtual sinking funds-with a link to a $100 bonus!

Posted on January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 by Captiv8ed

One of the first tasks I am tackling this year is streamlining our money systems. As I mentioned in my

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Continuous Quality Improvement-4 Life

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Do you know the management concept of continuous quality improvement?  I have begun to realize that a lot of people

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Using Chase Ultimate Rewards to visit places like this-2 beach front paintings of surfboards

Chase Ultimate Rewards-how we are staying in Hawaii for free-6 months into travel hacking

Posted on October 3, 2021June 12, 2022 by Captiv8ed

Saving money on travel Travel hacking-6 months in. How is it going? It is frustrating, overwhelming, discouraging, and glorious! Chase

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No-spending challenge and budget update

No-shopping challenge update (with 6 wins!)

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Captiv8ed

No-shopping challenge and budget update   The no-shopping challenge was way easier at the beginning of the year than it

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