Uncategorized

One of my favorite blogs, My Not So Humble Opinion, or [MNSHO] for short, hasn’t been posting for a while. It turns out this is because the author was working on a book. It has nothing to do with travel, but it is light-hearted, funny and, at times, has great …

You may have noticed that Tiff has been posting much more often than she has in the past.  We’ve “promoted” her from guest blogger to Contributing Writer. I figured it was worth introducing her again.  After all, her kids are older than when we last did that!  Tiff is a …

The Flight Deal has an amazing deal up tonight.  Travel to Europe from the West Coast for less than $465. I love the team at the Flight Deal and I make sure I get all of their deals by text. As a reminder of how to do this: This process involves signing …

Thank you to Business Insider for linking to this amazing advertisement for a travel agency in Scotland. I’m not sure what I love more–the man doing a flip in the pink and black bicycle shorts who is supposed to be one of the women or the creepy Disney scene. I’m …

A while ago, I highlighted the most popular sale items on Skymall.  And the results were shocking. Squirrels-head-mounted-on-a-way-shocking.   But I found a site that highlights things for sale that are much, much worse than SkyMall. For example: For the person who enjoys cutting things apart and then connecting them …

The following comments are the winners of my Fancy Hands task giveaway:   Congrats to the winners, and I will reach out to you starting tomorrow!  

The official hotel for a conference I’m attending for work caught fire early this morning.  Well, caught makes it sound passive.  From all accounts I’ve been hearing, arson is suspected. This particular conference is cursed.  Last year, it was hit by a hurricane and cancelled last minute. With this conference, …

We’ve had a bunch of new readers lately, so I wanted to let everyone know the options to follow us. One of the easiest way to keep track of us is to subscribe to our newsletter–but we are also on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook. Follow @HeelsFirst Enter your Email: Or …

One of the fun things about the contest we ran was seeing what people’s favorite posts were.  There was a common theme I noticed among some of them… Here are some of the posts linked to by entrants: How My Breasts Terrified a Farmers’ Market   Can You Smuggle Wine …

There’s still 6 hours left for my birthday, which means there’s 6 hours left to enter to win a $25 gift card from Amazon. Enter here!