Category: Travel Tips
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Twelve Hacks for keeping skin and body heathy on the road
Kathy Chin Leong is an award-winning travel writer who has endured freezing temperatures near the Arctic as well as the scorching sands of Fiji. On her travels, she has suffered mosquito bites lasting for weeks, sunburns that have seared off the top layer of her skin, stinging bladder infections, and cruise ship diarrhea, to…
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Lafayette — Heart of Cajun Country & so much more
Lafayette, the heart of Cajun Country in South Louisiana, has been buzzing for several years now. Known for its vibrant Cajun and zydeco music, the town’s musicians have garnered international nods and raked up a few Grammys. Its culinary scene, once strictly a Cajun food mecca, has expanded and evolved, one of the reasons Lafayette…
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Nashville
Nashville is a great mid-South city rich in history, bursting with Southern hospitality and food and humming with a vibrant musical heritage. The town began with the settlement of Fort Nashborough, named for Revolutionary War hero Gen. Francis Nash. The city later became Nashville, home to President Andrew Jackson. And after it rebounded from the…
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Deep South Traveling
One of the most egregious mistakes people make about the South and Southerners is that residents of this corner of America are all the same. In fact, each Southern state has its own unique accent, cultures and traditions, with regions within each state sometimes vastly different from others. Historically the South consisted of mostly Protestants…