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Dallas, TX

How To Spend A Weekend In Dallas Boasting trendy shopping areas, historic landmarks, and renowned Tex-Mex cuisine, it’s hard to slow down in Dallas. Just be prepared to bounce around as not everything is centrally located.   Three Random Things About Dallas You Probably Didn’t Know Suburbs Rule Of the 1.2 million people in Dallas, only […]

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Santa Fe, NM

A Weekend Trip To Santa Fe Hiking and hot peppers, adobe architecture and smart people. Santa Fe is not to be missed on your Southwest travel agenda.  As aspiring speakers of Spanish, we liked learning that Santa Fe means “holy faith.” And fun fact – it is actually the oldest capital city in the United

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Albuquerque, NM

here’s why abq should be on every traveler’s bucket list Only two things I know about Albuquerque – Bugs Bunny should have taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able to spell it.  – Jimmy McGill Did you know? Denver gets all the notariety as the “mile high

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Kansas City, MO

x number of reasons to visit kansas city In the land of famous BBQ, jazz history, countless breweries, and sports fanatics,  you’ll be hard-pressed to find down time (unless you’re dying of heat exhaustion).  Kansas City is HOT. Being from Florida we assume we can handle most other temperatures, but this was on another level.

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Minneapolis, MN

10,000 reasons to visit minneapolis in the summer Minneapolis gets a (possibly justified) bad rap for it’s arctic winter temps, but this city is alive and amazing in the summertime.  They aren’t lying when they say Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and Minneapolitans definitely take advantage of them whenever possible. Boats, kayaks and

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Des Moines, IA

Things to do in des moines “Is this heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa” Me fulfilling a childhood dream The actual filming location for the movie Field of Dreams is in Dyersville, which is about 3 hours from Des Moines. We couldn’t make it that far out of our way on this road trip, but there was

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Grand Junction, CO

the colorado city we kind of want to keep a secret Amazing hiking AND wineries (with cats).  We’re not really sure why GJ hasn’t exploded as a Colorado hot-spot, but we’re OK with the less-trafficked experience this city offers. “But, why?” When we tell people we’ve considered moving to Grand Junction, the most common response

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