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Learn from our experiences and travel industry leaders. Our blogs cover a range of topics.

Insights from Anywhere But Here Travel consultants (Your Travel Gals)
Destinations
Event Related Travel
Travel Preparation
Pet Travel

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Featured Posts

These posts focus on planning and preparation.

Are You Prepared for Domestic Travel in 2025?

By Your Travel Gals | March 5, 2023 |

UPDATED 12/5/2022: The deadline has been extended again to May 7, 2025. It was originally due in October 2021, but the pandemic pushed it out to May 2023. It has now been pushed out another two years. There was a recent study done by the U.S. Travel Association last month that determined that an estimated…

Things To Know About Travel Insurance

By Your Travel Gals | December 27, 2021 |

DID YOU KNOW? Delays on your trip can have cascading effects. What if you missed a connecting flight and have to take a flight the following day? That means your cruise ship leaves without you! Can you afford that? Make sure you get travel insurance that includes Trip Interruption, Trip Delay and Missed Connection coverage…

Passports: Renew or Apply Now!

By Your Travel Gals | July 25, 2021 |

Do you want to travel internationally in the next year? This is an important message for you to read and share it with others. GOOD NEWS! If you already have a passport, great! You can renew your passport by mail. You can also change your name if you have the appropriate documentation. Something to keep…

TSA Pre-Check, Global Entry, Nexus & CLEAR

By Your Travel Gals | July 6, 2020 |

UPDATED OCT 2022: We added information on CLEAR since it is a newer program that wasn’t available when this original blog post was written. So, you love to travel. But you hate the hassle that comes along with airports these days. I get it. But there are so many fantastic programs out there now that…

Destination Wedding Planning Tips

By Andrea King | June 20, 2020 |

So, you’re getting married. Hooray! Congratulations on this super exciting time in your life. I’ll bet your head is just swimming with ideas. Perhaps you are a little overwhelmed? But mostly excited, right? That’s common! Okay, so now the time has come to talk about planning a destination wedding! Andrea is a Certified Destination Wedding,…

Our Packing Recommendations

By Your Travel Gals | January 5, 2019 |

We get asked all the time by our clients about what they should pack for their upcoming trip that we helped plan for them. Of course, our recommendations vary depending on the type of trip they are going on but we figured it was time to share some of those tips with you! Many of…

5 Biggest Benefits of Booking through a Travel Agent

By Your Travel Gals | September 12, 2018 |

Many thanks to Lisa Pederson with My Snapshot Traveler for her fantastic interview and blog about our company. Make sure to check out the Podcast with Tia and also the follow up blog post as well. We are very grateful to Lisa and our rockstar agent & office gal Tia!

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Your REAL ID Questions Answered

By Your Travel Gals | December 5, 2017 |

Did you see a bunch of posts on Facebook last month about the REAL ID act and Washington State? Well, it turns out that our deadline for being REAL ID compliant was Oct 10, 2017 so it triggered a bunch of posts and confusing news articles about what was going on. What is REAL ID?…

Why Use a Travel Agent (Travel Advisor)

By Monica Hubinette | January 5, 2015 |

I am a new travel agent to Anywhere But Here Travel but I am not new to using a travel agent. I have been a loyal client of theirs for several years before I started to work here. I thought before I go into my stories of booking travel, I would tell you my story…