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What a Mexico All-Inclusive Really Costs This Winter: Real 2026–27 Prices From a Travel Advisor
Real winter prices for Mexico all-inclusives with flights — couples from $3,300, families from $5,600. Katie shares actual package numbers from her own quotes.
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What to Do When a Hurricane or Bad Weather Disrupts Your Trip
Katie covers what actually happens when a hurricane or major storm disrupts a trip, and how to protect your travel plans during hurricane season.
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Before the Holiday Rush: 8 Places to Travel in November
November is the quiet before the holiday travel storm. Hurricane season winds down in the Caribbean, dry season returns across a lot of tropical Asia, and Thanksgiving week aside, most destinations this month are noticeably calmer and cheaper than what’s coming in December. Here are eight destinations worth considering this month, grouped by region. Mexico…
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Why Booking With a Travel Advisor Protects You When Things Go Wrong
Katie explains what a travel advisor actually does when a trip goes sideways, and why that support is worth more than most people expect until they need it.
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The Best-Kept Secret Travel Month? 8 Places to Visit in February
February is one of the best-kept secrets on the travel calendar. It’s squeezed between the January post-holiday lull and the March spring break rush, which means better rates and thinner crowds at a lot of destinations that are otherwise packed most of the year. Here are eight destinations worth considering this month, grouped by region.…
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The 10 Best Adults-Only Resorts in the Mexican Caribbean
Katie’s ranked list of the 10 best adults-only resorts across Cancun, Riviera Maya, and Costa Mujeres, for couples and friend groups who want a quieter kind of all-inclusive.
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Following My Grandfather’s Footsteps: How Our Family Retraced His WWII Journey
My grandfather never talked about the war. He was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army — Company A, 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division. They called it the Century Division. He fought across France and into Germany during some of the most brutal months of the entire Western Front campaign. He came home…
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How to Find Your Irish Roots: What I Learned at the EPIC Museum and Glasnevin Cemetery
The first time I walked into the EPIC Museum in Dublin, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew it was about Irish emigration — the story of why so many Irish people left, where they went, and who they became. What I didn’t expect was how personal it would feel within about ten minutes…
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How to Plan a Norway Heritage Trip: A Guide for the Norwegian-American Diaspora
Norway doesn’t get as much attention as Ireland or Italy in conversations about heritage travel, but it absolutely should. The country has invested significantly in making itself accessible for people tracing Norwegian ancestry — particularly Norwegian-Americans, who emigrated in enormous numbers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The records are excellent, the cultural…
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How to Research Your Family History Before a Heritage Trip
The single thing that separates a meaningful heritage trip from an expensive tour of interesting places is research. Not because research is required to enjoy a trip — you can spend a week in Ireland or Germany or Norway and have a wonderful time without knowing a single specific thing about your family’s connection to…
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Cancún Is Still the Best Honeymoon Destination in Mexico — Here’s Why
I’ve been to Cancún somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty times now. I say “somewhere in the neighborhood” because at a certain point you stop counting and it just becomes the place you keep returning to — for site visits, for client trips, for destination weddings, and more than once just because I genuinely love…
