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Brand Ambassadors: What Brands and Influencers Need to Know

By Eric Stoen on February 23, 2021 • Last Updated February 25, 2021

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Brand Ambassador Definition What is a Brand Ambassador? Loosely speaking, a brand ambassador is someone who represents your company in a positive light, generating increased brand awareness and, ideally, increased revenue. With social media, brand ambassadorships have increased exponentially. However, there are many types of brand ambassadorships, and they’re not… Read More

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Study Abroad: The Best Decision I Ever Made

By Eric Stoen on February 8, 2021 • Last Updated February 8, 2021

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Study Abroad – My Story Growing up in Colorado in the ’70s I traveled on planes maybe once a year. Most years we traveled domestically, but three times I got to go overseas – twice to France to see family and once to Fiji. In the days before Internet, and… Read More

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Visiting Arches National Park with Kids

By Eric Stoen on January 20, 2021 • Last Updated March 1, 2021

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Arches National Park Utah This past year during the COVID pandemic, we switched from international travel to domestic road tripping (necessitated by a house sale), and we gravitated to the National Parks. In total we made 14 visits to six US National Parks between June and October, all in Utah,… Read More

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Holiday Gift Guide 2020

By Eric Stoen on November 10, 2020 • Last Updated November 11, 2020

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The Best Christmas Presents Welcome to my holiday gift guide for another year! Given that we traveled far less than normal because of the pandemic, I have a mix of travel and non-travel items this year. As usual, no one has has paid me to include them on this list,… Read More

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The 10 Best Road Trip Destinations in the Southwestern USA

By Eric Stoen on October 20, 2020 • Last Updated January 20, 2021

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SW USA – The Best Road Trip Destinations This year, between June and October, we road tripped from California to Colorado four times and from Colorado to California five times. I spent over 200 hours in the car – with some combination of zero, one or two kids – and… Read More

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Tips for a Perfect Road Trip

By Eric Stoen on October 17, 2020 • Last Updated October 20, 2020

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This post is sponsored by Ecolab. Road Trip Tips The past few months we’ve driven over 12,000 miles and spent more than 200 hours in the car, road tripping between California and Colorado. We’ve never been a road trip family before, but with virtually no international travel options this year, and… Read More

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Advice for Flying During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Eric Stoen on October 15, 2020 • Last Updated October 17, 2020

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Flying During COVID – Introduction I recently did a Zoom interview with Mogul about flying during the current pandemic. In the event you didn’t see it, I thought I’d summarize my thoughts and advice here. We’ve flown four times since March 1. I’ve also talked with others who have flown… Read More

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What We Look For in a Hotel

By Eric Stoen on September 22, 2020 • Last Updated September 22, 2020

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This post is sponsored by Ecolab. How to Choose a Hotel I get a lot of questions about why we choose the hotels we do, and this year, as we’ve been road tripping, I’ve received a lot of emails and DMs asking about which hotels have done a good job implementing… Read More

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Photography Trips: What You Should Know First

By Eric Stoen on September 10, 2020 • Last Updated January 25, 2021

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Travel Photography So you love travel and you love to photograph while you go. But are you always a little bit disappointed at the ability of your photographs to capture the spirit of your destination? Do you want to improve your photography while you’re in amazing destinations? Have you thought… Read More

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Hotel and Restaurant Cleanliness in this Summer of COVID

By Eric Stoen on September 2, 2020 • Last Updated September 2, 2020

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Road Tripping in 2020 Note: This post is sponsored by Ecolab. This summer we’ve been in the car over 100 hours, traveling around the U.S. Southwest. Over three months we’ve stayed in 11 hotels, lodges and resorts and dined in at least 30 restaurants. And we’ve seen a wide range of… Read More

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