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Traveling Tips & Tales

  • Park Hopping

    by Melodie Toonsley, Travel Reporter

    From one side of the United States to the other, as we plan our upcoming adventure at Disneyland. We are reminded of the complexity of purchasing Disney tickets when you aren’t a local with an annual pass. We have been annual passholders for Walt Disney World for many years and sometimes take for granted the ease of being able to pop in and go to ...

  • Setting Sail with Disney Fantasy

    by Melodie Toonsley, Travel Reporter

    Today we set sail on the Disney Fantasy. Truth be told, we have been on this ship a few times, so it was nice to be away, yet in familiar territory. The best thing about the Disney ships is the cleanliness and the attention to detail. The Disney Fantasy set sail in 2012 – making it a whopping 11 years old. Yet despite its age, everything feels and looks brand ...

  • Kensington Palace and Gardens

    by Melodie Toonsley, Travel Reporter

    Staying in Kensington, we had to make a day to visit Kensington Gardens and Palace. Of course my hope was that we would run into Princess Kate and the kids running around the gardens, but sadly that was not meant to be.

    Kensington Palace has played an important role in British royal history and continues to be a symbol of royal continuity and tradition. Its ...

  • The Sherlock Holmes Museum

    By Ainsley Toonsley, Creative Blogger

    We navigated our way to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street on the morning of day one of our London adventure. I’m not sure entirely what I was expecting, but having watched Enola Holmes and being familiar with the Sherlock Holmes character it seemed like a fun way to start the London trip. I’ll be honest I don’t know if I really knew that ...

  • The London Underground

    by Melodie Toonsley, Travel Reporter

    The London Underground or The Tube was the world’s very first underground train system, which opened in 1863. Since then, it’s grown to a sprawling underground masterpiece of 11 lines, 268 stations, and over 250 miles of rail track. What we learned, after being in the above ground London traffic, was that the Underground was not only a fun and unique way ...

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