One of my blogging boo’s Lashawn of Everyday Eyecandy shared an article a few weeks ago about the importance of taking a trip as an adult with your mom.  Well I was already way ahead and my mom and I have planned to kick off her 75th birthday in August by taking a cruise to Cuba.  Well the current administration took a big ol’ shat on our plans and on June 4th they abruptly banned all travel via cruises to Cuba effective…June 5th.  You can still travel to Cuba but there’s like fifty eleven types of restrictions and we had already paid to cruise and wanted to take that route…so on to plan B!  (more on that to come in an upcoming post)

Now back in my day…seriously like less than 20 years ago you could travel with less restrictions.  But since 9/11 a lot has changed and its imperative that you have all of your ish together when you plan to travel outside of the United States.  Here are 10 tips to help make travel easier and save you all the stress and headache of not being prepared when traveling out of the country. [Read more…]