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Tips & Tricks · March 21, 2022

How to Reduce Travel Stress & Anxiety

If you’re a traveler, learning how to reduce travel stress is important. Travel is not all unicorns and rainbows. New experiences and exciting opportunities come with a lot of planning, saving, and navigating an unfamiliar place. Travel stress can derail…

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Budgeting · March 26, 2020

Top 5 Ways We Waste Money on Vacation

Don’t you wish you could afford to go on more vacations? Check more cities off your list and see the world? Well, you just might be able to cut down the time between one trip and the next. Use a…

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Tips & Tricks · March 11, 2020

What Not to Do When You Return From Vacation

Who likes to return from vacation? It can be brutal. We’re bummed out, tired, overwhelmed, and wondering why we even went in the first place. And though we can’t exactly make it easy, there are things to avoid to help…

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Destinations, Tips & Tricks · December 29, 2019

Little Blue Backpack’s Best Of 2019

The final year of the decade brought me to the mountains of Colorado. The red rocks of Sedona. To the Capital. Down to Texas. And back to the island of Aruba. It was a year of fun trips that resulted…

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Tips & Tricks · June 23, 2019

How to Prepare for Vacation

We all know the feeling of having way too many things to do as we prepare for vacation. There always seems to be one more thing that needs to get done. A plan can save you a ton of stress…

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Tips & Tricks · May 23, 2019

8 Ways Travel Relieves Stress

Do you ever feel like you’re living life caught on a hamster wheel? Get up, check Instagram, get ready, go to work, check Facebook, make dinner, watch TV, then go to bed. And repeat tomorrow and the next day and…

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Aruba, Destinations, Vacations · March 7, 2019

6 Places to Have the Best Beach Day in Aruba

Are you are ready to relax? There is a lounge chair waiting. How about party? Pack the cooler. Does your bucket list need a checkmark next to snorkeling, jet-skiing, or parasailing? Get ready! Aruba beaches are for thrill-seekers and sun…

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Aruba, Destinations, Vacations · February 24, 2019

Backpack Goes to the Island: Aruba

ARUBA IS: EXCEPTIONAL One Happy Island. A place of beauty, joy, fun, and adventure. A destination that will wash away your worries in the ocean breeze, warm you up in the radiant sun, and embrace you with love and smiling…

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