Some pets love traveling while others can find it very stressful. Owners can prepare and minimize stress by knowing ahead of time what dangers and triggers affect their pets, and head them off at the pass. These travel tips from the American Humane Association can help ensure that holiday trips, and travels year-round, are safe and enjoyable for people and their pets!

1. Properly identify pets with ID tags and microchips: Make sure you have your pets’ ID, current rabies tags and that they’re microchipped. To be extra cautious, attach an additional tag with the address and phone number of …read more

I’m one of those people who loves to have a crafty project to work on when I’m a passenger on a trip.  Of course, it’s not so safe if I’m the driver!
My travel project of choice is usually a bag full of yo-yo circles.  I pre-cut the circles and toss them into a bag with needle, thread and scissors.  They’re small, portable and light – my perfect travel craft

There are a few things I look for in travel-friendly crafts.  They should be small, easily carried and not messy.  It should be fun to do – you’re not going …read more

In keeping with my Travel Theme this week, in my posts at Blisstree’s Parenting section, let’s consider some travel memory crafts.  How can we create memories and save them through crafting?

Keep a journal of your travels.
Make a scrapbook with photos and words
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Collect postcards and assemble them in albums
Make a memory shadow box of memorabilia collected
Write down memories of past trips
Look at the challenges and disasters with the humor the years bring.
Write a blog about your trip, complete with pictures, to share with others in the family.
Design a quilt or wall hanging with travel memories or of a special place you’ve …read more

My grandparents bought a boat not long before they retired, and every time we visited them we loaded up and cruised to Catalina Island. I’m not sure why my Grandpa decided to sell the boat, but when he did, they purchased an RV. As a kid I loved traveling in that big thing, playing cards on the compact dining table and sleeping on an actual bed while my Grandpa drove endless miles to god-knows-where.
When we made our first cross-country venture with our son, who was 18 months old at the time, I actually looked in to renting an RV. I …read more

I’ve been randomly asking couples if they’ve ever traveled together, just the two of them. Some say they have, others say they haven’t. Mind you, some of these couples have been together for years (some even are planning their weddings) but they haven’t had the chance of traveling together. Hence, my curiosity to bring the question online and to you dear readers of Dating Dames.

Have any of you couples traveled together?
If you guys have, how was it? Did this experience bring you closer together? Did it help you guys get to know the other person better?
If you haven’t, is it …read more