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Today I wanted to share more travel tips.  Enjoying your travel time is something that is also very important. If you enjoy your time you won’t need as much time to recover from your vacation.

Top 5 holiday travel tips

As much as we in the eMail marketing biz all look forward to going home for the holidays, we still have to get there and getting there is not even half the fun any more. Fact is, you can be so stressed out by the time you arrive that you never get to really enjoy being home and darn it, you deserve to enjoy being home for the holidays.

We know a lot of eMail marketing pros are traveling over the next week or so. By now you likely have your campaigns ready to go for the busiest eMail marketing period of the year so, relax and enjoy five tips to help make your journey home a wee bit easier.

5 – Bring snacks, water, hand sanitizer wipes and tissues. You just don’t know how long you’ll be held over at any point in your journey. Make sure you have something to snack on till you can get your hands on those tasty airline peanuts. As well, crowded places can be a holiday for flu bugs so, be prepared.   –more

Family Travel Tips: 18 Ways to Enjoy a Road Trip

Whenever one of my friends returns from some time away, I ask: “Was it a vacation, or was it just a trip?”

When traveling with kids, true vacations are pretty hard to come by. With the packing, the car seats, the change in sleeping schedules, and all the inevitable whining that comes along, it would be way easier to stay home (especially when traveling by car.)

And yet traveling is important. When we travel, we open to a world that was previously unknown to us. We touch other cultures and other ways of life; we broaden our own perspectives and understand, finally, that our small problems are just that.

When we travel with kids, we open their eyes to all of this and more. Even when we take a simple trip to visit distant relatives, we show them a world of love that they may not had known existed.

Here are eighteen tips to help you enjoy road trip traveling with your kids.

Before the trip:

1. Use online trip planning websites to locate kid friendly parks, historic monuments, and other attractions in advance. Plan at least one child oriented activity each day, even on those driving days. Involving your kids in the planning of your vacation will help them to get excited about the trip, too.    –more