Packing for the Atlantic Canada Trip

Packing for a trip as long as our trip to Atlantic Canada can be challenging. I thought, as we are packing up this week to go, I would share what we pack, and how we do our packing, so other people interested in taking long road trips like this can compare what we take to…

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Picnicking on a Trip

Mark really likes a good picnic, and I’m always willing to indulge him when we travel. We carry food, after all. We usually have two food tubs with us, and they can hold more than snacks. We have a cooler, too, even if it’s small. Making you own food can save you time and money….

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Inside Ripley’s Backpack

One of the most important things about traveling with a dog is bringing along everything you might need to take care of the dog while you are away. It turns out to be quite a list. Ripley has her own backpack when we travel. So, what do we bring? The most obvious things to bring…

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Packing with Tubs

One of the first decisions Mark and I made when we first started taking long trips was that bags just weren’t cutting it for us when we packed. We had too many things in too many separate bags. Every time we tried to go into a hotel, we had to haul all of the bags…

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