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  • Year-Ahead Planning: Creating Your Personal Travel Wellness Checklist

    Year-Ahead Planning: Creating Your Personal Travel Wellness Checklist

    As the year winds down, the luggage is finally unpacked, and the last boarding pass gets tossed into a drawer, it’s the perfect time to pause. Travel has a way of piling up quietly. One trip blends into the next, routines blur, and before you know it, you’re already planning the next adventure without reflecting…

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  • Half-Day Layover in Zurich: A Self-Guided Walk Through Old Town and the Christmas Markets

    Half-Day Layover in Zurich: A Self-Guided Walk Through Old Town and the Christmas Markets

    Long layovers either feel like dead time or a bonus destination, and Zurich definitely fell into the bonus category. With about seven hours between flights, we made the quick 15 minute train ride from the airport into the center of the city. Add the fact that it was Christmas season, and suddenly Zurich was not…

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  • Active Sightseeing: Exploring While Moving

    Active Sightseeing: Exploring While Moving

    I’ll be the first to admit, the trips I enjoy most probably aren’t what most people prefer. They’re long, active days full of hiking or exploring cities (what I like to call urban hiking). How intense, you ask? On the way to Patagonia, we caught a red-eye from JFK with a 24-hour layover in Santiago.…

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  • Resistance Bands: The Ultimate Travel Workout Tool

    Resistance Bands: The Ultimate Travel Workout Tool

    So you’re headed out on the road and still want to get some activity in. Maybe you’ve got your eye on the hotel gym. But let’s be honest, sometimes that “fitness center” isn’t quite what the website promised. Three cardio machines (one actually works), a random assortment of mismatched dumbbells, and a faint mystery smell…

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