Once upon a time, I only treated my own drinking water when I was on multi-day backpacking trips like Canada’s West Coast Trail. But then a true travel epiphany hit me when I joined Crooked Trails and learned that they encouraged all travelers to treat their drinking water as one of their basic responsible travel […]
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Review: mysmartpac personal care kit
As I write this, I am pausing every few seconds and sniffing my arms up and down. Mmm…I smell delicious, albeit a little bit like dessert, thanks to the hydrating body lotion I just slathered on from mysmartpac. This is one of the sweet little items out of the “hers” personal care kit by mysmartpac, […]
Sun Lover’s Reality Check
As a sun-worshipper from a famously rainy part of the world, it takes an extreme amount of discipline for me to sun safely overseas. In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness month, I’m in need of a sun-safety reality check! Test your sun-safety IQ. The American Cancer Society has a 9 question sun-safety quiz to […]