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I am a flight nurse who travels all over the US. This is my work and personal travel journal.

JFK Special Warfare Museum Fort Liberty, NC – Travel Journal Entry Oct ’24

Posted on December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

Fort Liberty has a small museum packed with history on post. The JFK Special Warfare Museum is in an unassuming brick building on the base. For years I have been…

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Sandals Royal Plantation – Travel Journal Entry – Sept ’24

Posted on October 11, 2024October 9, 2024

Ja-‘Merican – thats what our driver called us after learning how many years and visits we have had to the island. Not gonna lie, I was kinda touched by the…

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Fayetteville History Museum – Travel Journal Entry

Posted on October 5, 2024October 5, 2024

I have been trying to motivate myself to get out and explore more around me. So I searched around on Google Maps and looked for something that interested me. This…

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TSA PreCheck – Worth it?

Posted on August 5, 2024July 29, 2024

Did you get a chance to fly before 9-11-2001? Remember how security was a metal detector and you ran your bags through the machine? Well… Pre-Check security experience is similar…

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Sandals Royal Plantation, Ochos Rios Jamaica July 2024 – Travel Journal Entry

Posted on August 2, 2024July 28, 2024

Wait!? This is your third visit in less than a year?! Yeah….. so I can explain…. So we had planned a family vacation in July, asked off for work and…

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Never Stop Dating – Open Letter Series

Posted on July 29, 2024April 26, 2025

Dear Husbands, Never stop dating your wife. The dates don’t have to be fancy or elaborate. Make plans to spend time together just the two of you without kids. I…

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Kings Dominion Doswell, VA – Travel Journal Entry July 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024July 12, 2024

One of the things we do as a family is try to make memories rather than collect stuff for birthdays, Christmas etc. This month is my son’s 15th birthday and…

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Travel Photography – Tips for travel

Posted on July 19, 2024July 12, 2024

So I’m not a professional photographer, I have no fancy camera, and I mostly use auto enhance to make my photos better. With all that said – I really try…

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Wrightsville Beach, NC – Travel Journal Entry June 2024

Posted on July 15, 2024July 12, 2024

About a 2 hour drive from where I’m working is Wrightsville Beach. I was on a night shift run and needed to get away from the base of operations for…

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US Army Airborne and Special Forces Museum Fayetteville, NC – Travel Journal Entry April 2024

Posted on July 12, 2024July 12, 2024

Fort Liberty, NC (formerly Fort Bragg) is home to several Army Airborne divisions and Special Forces groups. History and more specifically military history is fascinating to me so this was…

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