Today, we’re taking a few deep breaths and talking about wellness travel.

According to the Wellness Tourism Association, wellness travel is “travel that allows the traveler to maintain, enhance, or kickstart a healthy lifestyle, and support or increase one’s sense of wellbeing.”

It is so important to live inward, find ourselves, and experience true wellbeing, and if you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you know how many guests have said that travel is the best way to discover who you are, down to your core.

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People go on vacations for all sorts of reasons.

From people who like history to people who like going on wellness vacations, ski vacations, and beach vacations, there is a vacation to cater to anyone’s interests.

That includes sports. This is a theme that not many people talk about, so I’m going to talk about it today.

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It’s been two years since the Covid pandemic shut down the entire planet.

When you’re traveling, you need to have a Plan B. Especially during these times when everything could change in an instant and cause problems for your Plan A.

No one wants to have to think about bad stuff when traveling. We all just want to travel and have a good time and enjoy our vacations.

That’s great and all, but you also don’t want to be having a great vacation and be unprepared for that one time that something bad goes down.

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It is finally here!

Black History Month has arrived, and I am so excited!

Today’s episode is about black history and travel, and I wanted to reflect on the fact that I have the freedom to actually travel to wherever I want to spend my vacation.

So, today’s episode is celebrating black history and I’m going to give you some ways that you can add a little bit of black history into your trip, no matter where you go.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Today’s episode is all about romance, and because this is a travel podcast, I’m talking about spicing up your travels with some romance.

There are the usual romantic trips, such as the weddings, honeymoons, babymoons, anniversaries, vow renewals, or whichever milestone you want to celebrate.

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Today, I’m talking to William Hollingworth. He is the author of All 48: Drive Your Dreams, a true story about him and his wife, Jessica, as they navigate young parenthood, William’s deployment in the army, and into the spontaneous road trip that sparked their desire to see more of the world.

In this episode, you will hear about their journey, how to plan for a road trip, how to get double the experience in one trip, and how they travel with full-time jobs (at one point they had 2 jobs each).

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Welcome back to another episode about Costa Rica!

This time, I’ll be telling you about Planet Hollywood, the all-inclusive resort where I stayed for two whole weeks in Costa Rica.

There are many reviews online about every resort and experience, and sometimes you can’t tell if they’re reliable or not, so I went to experience Planet Hollywood and Riu Palace Costa Rica so that I could give you my recommendations as a travel agent for when you decide to visit Costa Rica.

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After the ordeal that I spoke about in the previous episode, I finally had my vacation in Costa Rica.

Despite the flight cancellation that delayed my trip by one day, I still managed to spend around 21 days in Costa Rica, and it was amazing.

If you ever get the opportunity to go to Costa Rica, there are a few things that you need to know, and a few experiences that you need to have in order to make it the most memorable vacation you could possibly take.

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Welcome to 2022!

I’m sure many of you are familiar with the message of “a delay is not a denial.” Today, I’m putting it into the context of travel.

A delayed flight is not the end of a vacation. Even a cancelled flight doesn’t have to cancel your trip.

Most of you probably know that I recently travelled to Costa Rica, and on the way there, my flight was cancelled.

I could’ve cancelled my entire trip and gone home, but I decided to take it as a slight delay to the start of what ended up being a great vacation.

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