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Nirwana Beach Club Review
You come from a long flight from Europe or North America and and in Singapore. You want to fight off your jetlag in a quiet, peaceful environment. What do you do? Well, you go on an overnight stay in Bintan Island, Indonesia, in an effort to get some peace, quiet, and calm before the city sightseeing. After all, you spent nearly 24 hours on the flight just to reach the exotic islands of Asia from the US, right? Nirwana Beach Club Bintan Indonesia (Review) Bintan Island is convenient enough to go to from Singapore. The ferry is within a 10 minute taxi or a 20 minute bus ride from Changi…
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2019 Year in Review
It’s been a while since I posted one of these year end reviews. Since we are in the midst of another new year, I figured it should be a good time to look back at the year that passed as a way to document our travels and achievements for the year. 2019 Year in Review January 2019: Caribbean Cruise We started off the year with a good start. Peter relocated back to Jacksonville from Tampa, yay, and I ended up going to a different company. We went on a weekend trip to Orlando, where our hotel was walking distance to the Orlando Eye, ate lunch at Copper Canyon Grill (now…
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Savannah St Patrick’s Day (Survival Guide)
This Jewel of a city in Georgia is known for the oak trees lining the streets and green squares. The city was designed by General Oglethorpe, which follows a grid. It’s really hard not to fall in love with the city, with it’s vibrant events and it’s many things to do. For this post, we are going to show you what to expect, see, and do within 36 hours in Savannah, Georgia during St Patrick’s Day weekend. What? Savannah celebrating St. Patrick’s Day? Yes indeed! The city has a big parade every single year, regardless of the day of the week it is in. The celebration may not be as…
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Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List
If you’re a new reader of our blog (or a follower), you would know that I love lists — and I try to scratch off as many to-dos as I can. So, while I was browsing around the library looking for the next thing to read, I stumbled upon Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List. Its claim? The 500 best places to see – ranked. I am not really a firm believer in rankings, but seeing as I only have a few weeks to keep this book, I’d much rather note down all the destinations and slowly scratch them off my list of places to see. Yes, even on top of…
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Alex Prokaj’s Birth Story
Birth stories are fairly common now and each and every one is unique. Here is our own son’s birth story, which occurred this October 2019. Saturday. October 19, 2019 It was a rather rainy day. We had a full day planned ahead but unfortunately most of it got derailed by the weather. Our morning was supposed to start with us going around our community looking for garage sale finds. When the rain finally let up around 11am, we went out and walked around our street to see if anyone was selling anything but maybe the weather put everybody off the garage sale. Oh well. There was a Choose FI meetup…
