5 Travel Tips for Your Next Summer Vacation by Liwen Y. Ho

With school out and warmer weather on the horizon, many people find the summer months are the best time to travel. If you're planning a trip somewhere soon, here are five tips to make your next vacation more efficient and enjoyable.

1. Save space in your luggage by rolling your clothes instead of folding them. You'll also end up with less wrinkly clothes!
2. Use a pill container to sort and store your jewelry.
3. If you forget the wall plug-in for your phone charger, you can use a USB port in the back of your hotel TV to charge your phone.
4. If you get sunburned and don't have aloe on hand, brew a cup of Earl Grey tea in your hotel room and place the teabag on the affected area.
5. Put your hotel room number in your phone, so you have one less thing to remember.

What travel tips do you have? I'd love to hear them as I prepare for our family vacation next month!

Speaking of traveling, my upcoming release is all about the wanderlust spirit. 

After Macy Grant breaks up with a man who won’t commit, she escapes heartbreak with a weekend on the seas. The last person she expects to meet and fall for is entrepreneur Jake Olsen. A believer in love at first sight, he seems perfect for her in every way … then her ex-boyfriend shows up on the cruise ship with a ring.

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You can get a sneak peek into Macy and Jake's world by checking out the book's inspiration board on my Pinterest page.

Liwen Y. Ho is an Amazon bestselling author of contemporary romance, both sweet and inspirational. A marriage and family therapist in her pre-author life, she enjoys creating realistic characters and helping them find their happily-ever-afters. She lives in California with her techie husband and their two munchkins, and blogs about life as a recovering perfectionist.

She has written three novellas in the Taking Chances series and also four short stories in the Seasons of Love series.

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A Trip Down Memory Lane by Ginny Baird

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of traveling to New Orleans with my husband. It was my first time visiting the city, and I loved every minute of our trip. Something that made it special was that my husband had lived there years before. Back when he was a fledgling professor at Tulane, he discovered many local haunts and native eateries that are still there today. What fun it was to have him as my tour guide, as I indulged in Cajun cooking and experienced the joy of my first piping hot beignet!

The day we took the streetcar from our hotel in the French Quarter to the university, it poured. But it wasn’t just rain streaming from the sky. One large tree on campus was raining Mardi Gras beads! We snapped this shot on our way to the student store where I purchased a pair of rain boots. Then we slogged off on further adventures, enjoying red beans and rice at the diner that used to be my husband’s favorite lunch retreat.

There’s something very special about exploring a loved one’s past in this manner. It provides insight into who they are now by better understanding the things they did then. A few years ago, when we visited our daughter studying in Spain (where I’d spent my junior college year), I was able to play tour guide for my husband by sharing a unique glimpse of my history. 

Have you and your partner had similar experiences in taking each other on trips down your own personal memory lanes? Let us hear about them here!

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Ginny Baird writes contemporary romance novels and novellas. Her latest sweet romance release is The Calendar Brides, available at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. Want to keep up with news from Sweet Romance Reads authors?

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