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Cities with Big Style

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Iconic American Style - Cities

Summer is here and you more than likely have a week or two’s worth of holidays coming up.

Do you happen to live in one of these four Iconic American cities?  Naturally, not everyone can live in these four wonderful cities.  Heck, I don’t even live in the United States!  I live in Canada.

I can, however, say that I’ve been to Chicago and New York City and I absolutely loved both cities.  As stated in the information above each city has very distinct and memorable areas that are unique to each city.   I’d certainly love to visit Boston and San Francisco some day.

So what are you doing this summer?  Are you taking a road trip?  Driving to one of those wonderful cities for a week or two?






Goin2travel could make it easier for our to plan our next family reunion vacation

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I’m behind in my blog posts this weekend because we’re having our big family reunion this weekend. In about an hour I’ll be going over to my brothers home where we’ll be having a big barbecue. All of my brothers and my sister will be there with their spouses and children. It should be fun.

I expect at some point during todays activities we’ll begin to discuss what we’d like to do next year for our family reunion. In prior planning sessions we’ve discussed traveling to other countries for our reunions.

Obviously if we were going to hold one of our get togethers outside the country we’d probably look in to some kind of vacation rental as this would keep our costs down and I’m sure we’d have fun staying together in one or two vacation rentals.

So … I’m doing a bit of research before I leave for the BBQ. There’s a site called Goin2travel.com that specializes in worldwide vacation rentals. Owners and managers of various types of vacation rentals list their rentals and availability on the site and people like myself who are looking to rent can browse through the selection and find the ideal vacation rental.

One of my brothers went to San Diego a couple of years ago and he just loved the area so maybe we’ll look into San Diego vacation rental homes. Another idea might be to look for Newport beach rental homes. The beauty of this site is that you can find vacation rentals just about anywhere.

Actually … one of my brothers lives in Vancouver Canada and we haven’t had our family reunion out west yet. Perhaps I should look for vacation rentals in Whistler BC. Staying in a lovely mountain home sounds beautiful doesn’t it?

I’m bookmarking this site and I’m definitely going to be telling my siblings about it when I see them in an hour or so. It might really help us plan our next reunion.

Planning a much needed vacation

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Speaking of traveling. I keep saying that Chris and I need to go on a vacation. We haven’t been anywhere for ages, and when we have gone to another city we’ve almost always ended up staying with family.

Somehow that’s just not the type of holiday I’ve been craving.

I have a few places that I’d like to vacation in. I’d love to go to Costa Rica, several places in Europe and for some reason I’d like to go to Orlando to go to Disney World.

Quite the mix eh?

Actually the only place that probably is feasible right now is Orlando. We could fly or drive and it would still end up costing less than flying to Costa Rica or Europe! When we go to Disney World we’d probably stay in an Orlando vacation home rental. I really don’t care for hotels all that much and if we rented a vacation home we’d be able to cook our own meals and relax a bit more than we would in a hotel. It’d feel more home like.

Have you stayed in vacation homes when you’ve traveled?

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