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My Top 5 Marine Wildlife Spots From Our 50 State Road Trip Across The USA
This is the final post in a series about animals and wildlife from our 7 year, 50 state road trip. Most recently I wrote about wildlife you can find on land across the USA. Now, it’s time for marine...
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My Top 5 Land Wildlife Spots From Our 50 State Road Trip Across The USA
If you’ve been following along then you know I’m working through a series about animals and wildlife from our 7 year, 50 state road trip. I’ve recently written about animals in captivity in one way or...
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My Top 5 Captive Animal Experiences From Our 50 State Road Trip Across the USA
I love to see, pet, touch, feed, and just be near animals whenever possible. If I can get a selfie? Even better! Shae Pepper Lore: Animal selfies for me started officially in December 2017 while...
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My Top 5 Zoos & Aquariums From Our 50 State Road Trip Across The USA
As the person voted “most likely to die petting something I shouldn’t” by my husband, friends, and family, I thought it was time for some quality animal content for you from our road trip. Between...
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Shae’s Top 5 US National Parks (That We Visited)
I would’ve loved to prioritize visiting all of the National Parks – I’m a big fan of having a challenge or a goal to meet. But, we did get to see so many amazing parks on our 7 year, 50 state road trip...
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Stephen’s Top 5 US National Parks (That We Visited)
While on our 7 year, 50 state road trip, most of those years Shae and I had an America the Beautiful annual pass. That got us free entry into all the National Parks around the US, as well as other...
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Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: Special Events & Changing Exhibits
I mentioned in my last post about the Afternoon Tea experience at the Harry Potter/Warner Bros Studio Tour London that I’ve been at least six times… what I didn’t mention is that also included two...
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Afternoon Tea Experience At Warner Bros Studio Tour In London (Harry Potter)
I’ve now been to the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London at least six times and it feels like every visit just gets better and better. The studio tour displays exhibits from the making of the Harry...
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Visiting Raby Castle in County Durham, England
Less from 10 minutes from where we live is Raby Castle. Dating back to (mostly) the 14th century, the castle is still in excellent condition with beautifully maintained grounds and gardens. The castle...
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Visiting The High Force Waterfall & Low Force Waterfall In County Durham,...
My parents came to stay with us recently in County Durham, so we decided to visit a bunch of local attractions. One of those was the fantastic Raby Castle which we’ll be posting about next week, so...
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Finding Thomas Dambo’s Trolls At Whipsnade Zoo
Back in March, Shae and I managed to get tickets for a behind-the-scenes tour of Thomas Dambo’s studio just outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s the artist who’s built more than 150 troll sculptures...
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How To Find Dobby’s Grave At Freshwater West Beach In Wales (Harry Potter...
A few months ago, we spent a few days in Fort William in Scotland and visited six Harry Potter filming locations, plus we rode the Jacobite steam train which appears in the movies as the Hogwarts...
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10+ Fun (& Mostly Pet-Friendly) Things To Do In Pembroke, Wales
Shae, Truffles and I just spent a few days in Pembroke, a town in southwest Wales near the coast. Despite it being a fairly small town (its population is ~7,500), there’s a lot to see and do in the...
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Visiting The Pet-Friendly Barnard Castle (Part Of English Heritage)
Back in May 2020, there was a bit of a scandal in the UK when a high-level government adviser seemingly broke COVID lockdown rules to drive to Barnard Castle. His reasoning behind the trip was that he...
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Saga 2025 Day 12: Aberdeen – Time Travel, Castles, Coos & More
After an amazing Scotland trip of almost two weeks with our friends, it unfortunately had to come to an end. However, we did still manage to cram in some last moments of fun on our final day before our...
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Saga 2025 Day 11: Inverness To Aberdeen – Standing Stones, Pyramid, Castle &...
After a fun evening in Inverness, it was time for us to head to the last destination of our trip to Scotland with our friends – Aberdeen. I’d picked Aberdeen as there was a castle I wanted them all to...
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Saga 2025 Day 10: Skye To Inverness – Coos, Castles, Nessie, Another Whisky...
After three nights on the Isle of Skye (which we would’ve loved to have been even longer), it was time to move on to our penultimate destination – Inverness. That’s a 3.5 hour drive, but we knew it...
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A Tearoom Where You Can Feed Highland Cows? Yes Please!
Our friend Megan is a huge fan of Highland cows (also known as Heilan coos), so we made several attempts to see them while on our trip to Scotland. We did get to see them a couple of times, but we all...
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Saga 2025 Days 8-9: Isle Of Skye – Whisky, Fairies, Castles, Waterfalls,...
Having spent three fantastic nights in Fort William, we moved on to the Isle of Skye for another three nights. Due to how (relatively) late we arrived and how early we had to leave on our final day, we...
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The Three Chimneys Restaurant Review (Isle Of Skye, Scotland)
Having had a wonderful time going on a Cask Draw & Tasting Experience at Talisker, my birthday fun continued with our friends taking us out to dinner at The Three Chimneys restaurant on Skye. Over...
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