The Biggest Customer Service Fails I’ve Experienced in Travel

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Photo Credit: Adam on Flickr Louie CK has a hilarious skit where he compares fliers describing their harrowing journeys akin to surviving the Oregon Trail. From epic delays to lost luggage to missed connections, whoever said, “Enjoy…

Stop Calling Me a Food Critic (I’m Not)

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 No fancy cameras here. I take all my own iPhone photography. Literally the first thing people ask when they find out I write a food column is if I’m a critic. Or, they skip the asking all together and just assume. Let me clarify…

Life Lessons from Warren Miller: Meeting a Mogul on his 90th Birthday

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There are certain moments in life you wouldn’t in your wildest dreams imagine putting on your bucket list. Celebrating Warren Miller’s 90th birthday with him? That was one of mine. Something I never could’ve seen coming. I…

20 Things I Accomplished in My 20s…and 30 More for My 30s

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With the realization that a huge life milestone has hit turning the #DirtyThirty, I thought it’d be worth taking a minute to reflect on some of the things I accomplished over the last decade and set some new goals for myself. Being that…

Surviving the Dating Scene in Denver: The Do’s and Don’ts for Mixing and Mingling in the Mile High

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While far less superficial than boys in the Midwest, the dating scene in Denver presents a whole different set of challenges (beyond the growing lumbersexual movement - is it really that hard to invest in a razor?). Everyone here…

When Working in Travel Sucks

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Photo via Selden Vestrit, flickr For the most part, I have the dream job, or at least that’s what I’d like you to think from my montage of epic adventure photos and heavily curated social media profiles. Let me let you in on a…

Whatever Happened to the American Dream?

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Photo via Nana B Agyei, flickr Having just written this for GoBankingRates, I've been thinking a lot about how has the American dream changed lately. And to be honest, I don't even recognize it anymore. Let me explain... Did you…

5 Ways I’ve Traveled for Free (And How You Can Too)

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People ask me all the time how I get to travel for free. While I have worked for a travel company full-time (which I found through your average old Linkedin post just like anyone other job), I didn’t always get such amazing…

Is There Even Such a Thing as a Travel Expert?

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I often struggled with the idea of what a travel expert is and if there even is such a thing. It’s not like it’s something you can major in or take classes for (history did a shoddy job, who even knows where Mesopotamia is now?). Coming…

How to Save Money on Travel – Every Time

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Isn’t travel expensive? How do you afford to travel so much? I get this question all the time. And the answer is that it doesn’t have to be. Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for maximizing your budget so you can see…