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Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation packages

May 29, 2007 by Tricia

My husband has always enjoyed playing golf, but really hasn’t had the time to get out and play for a couple of years. His birthday is coming up in July and when I saw that the CoastalGolfaway.com site offered myrtle beach golf vacation packages I thought to myself, this might be a great idea for Chris’ birthday gift.

The prices seem quite reasonable. If I’m reading this correctly it looks like we could go to Myrtle Beach, and if we got one of the vacation packages we’d stay for three nights in a fully equipped villa with four beds (each villa has four beds), and we could play on the following courses – Thistle, Tigers Eye, Panthers Run and Players Club. The package listing only went up to May 20th, but it looks like that would cost about $436 per golfer.

That seems like a pretty good price for four rounds of golf and a three night stay in a fully equipped villa. The price apparently includes the green and cart fees plus all taxes. Seems like a pretty sweet deal for anyone that enjoys the game of golf!





Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Sports, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: Birthday, birthday gift, golf, golf course, golf getaway, golf rounds, good price, Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach Golf, offer, package deal, prices, vacation, vacation package, villa

Planning vacations and keeping expenses down

May 26, 2007 by Tricia

Have you ever been to London, England? I’ve never been, but I’d love to go for a vacation some time within the next year or two. I’d enjoy going to Piccadilly Square, seeing what Buckingham Palace looks like with my own eyes, and probably attending some of the live theatre productions.

I know that some of my readers live in England. Perhaps if I ever do get around to booking a holiday in London you could tell me what sites are “Must See” places to visit.

I do know that I won’t have a problem finding a cheap hotel in London, because I’ve visited and already bookmarked a site called easyhotel.com where I know I’ll be able to pre-book a nice hotel room easily and for a good price.

Finding cheap hotels in London or anywhere in the UK is important to me, because while I know that I’d like to stay in nice hotels when I do go to visit London, I certainly don’t want to spend the majority of my money on lodgings. The Canadian and US dollar are much lower than that of the Pound. I think the pound is about 2.5 times higher in value than our money, which means that when we do eventually go to the UK and perhaps elsewhere in Europe we need to be aware of how much things cost ahead of time.

When the time comes I’ll just go to the EasyHotel.com website and locate their section for cheap hotels London and book our rooms. You can set the search to find hotels near particular areas so if I know what sites we’d like to visit before hand, we’ll be able to get a hotel that’s in that area. That will save on the cost of transportation too because either we won’t have to travel too far by cab, or public transit, or we’ll actually be able to walk to specific locations.

I think I’m going to talk to my brothers wife. Every year they go off to either some exotic location or a new continent that they’ve never visited before. The begin planning their new trip pretty much upon returning from the last trip. Well, it’s my brothers wife that does the majority of that planning. She’s good too. Their trips always seem fascinating and she always finds good deals on travel, and hotels or other lodgings.

If we want to go to London I’m sure she’ll have some good tips on what to see and some idea’s as to how we can cut costs.

If she gives me any really good tips that could be applied to just about any type of vacation I’ll be sure to make a post about it at some point.

Filed Under: Culture, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: Canadian Dollar, cheap hotels, Europe, good price, holiday, hotel, London, london hotels, London theatre, Piccadilly Square, saving money, sites to see, spend, the Pound, travel, Uk, US dollar, vacation

Flame wars and trolls

May 23, 2007 by Tricia

Wow, I’ve been talking about my other websites this week, and the mailing lists I run and I must say sometimes it’s quite amusing.

A little flame war broke out on one of my lists earlier today and I have a feeling that I might now have gained myself either a persistent troll or worse a cyber stalker out of it. It all depends on the control measures that I just took on the list as to how things go. You see, as the list owner and administrator I had to step in to put out the flames and the troll that caused the trouble didn’t like that one bit.

The person subscribed to the list with a free email after I put his subscribed email on “no post” status, and sent a semi threatening note to the list stating in it “We’ll be watching you”. With the you being me of course. I think this person needs to get sent on one of those Alaskan cruises and end up not being able to get back on the boat once it reaches it’s destination.

Hopefully nothing much comes of this. I just thought I should warn you that it might flow into the blog. Hopefully any of this creaton’s comments get moderated by Akismet before they get on the blog.

At this point I’m finding the situation mildly amusing in that this person thinks their taunts can get to me. Believe me, I’ve seen better! It could however spill over into something much more serious, and that would not be amusing at all. So my guard is up, I’m watching my email, lists, and sites carefully for any signs of attack and we’ll just have to see how this goes.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: akismet, Alaska, amusing, blog, comment, comments, cyber stalker, email, flame war, nasty person, situation, stalker, troll, trolls, watching, watching me, websites

My one and only trip to Disney Land

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

I just realized that it’s my youngest nieces birthday this Friday! Ahhh she lives on the other side of the country! I can’t possibly get a gift to her in time! I hate it when I miss a birthday.

I was reminded of her birthday when I got an email from my brother. They’re going to take a little vacation at the end of the month since their girls will be finished school. They’re going to travel to Florida and stay in an Orlando vacation rental. It’s almost right beside Disney Land and they plan to spend some time at Disney land going on the rides and seeing the sites. They haven’t been there since their kids were pretty young, and now that the girls are getting older this might be their last time to go as a family.

The only time I’ve been to Disney Land was about 10 years ago. I went to Florida to see some friends that I’d met through my work with reptiles. It was truly a reptilian vacation. We hit every zoo that had reptiles in all of Florida! Which means the only place I went to at Disney land was Discovery Island! LOL

When I was in Florida that time, much of the northern part of the state was on fire. I was staying in the Tampa area and the air was just full of smoke. It was June too, so it was pretty darn hot. Not the best time of year to visit Florida.

I wonder how my brother and his family are going to like Florida in June!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: Birthday, brother, Discovery Island, Disney land, Family, fire, florida, Florida in June, hot, Niece, Orlando, smoke, travel, vacation

Work from home? Live abroad

May 18, 2007 by Tricia

You know, due to my illness, I’ve been stuck at home for almost a year and a half now. Since I stopped getting sick pay from my workplace almost a year ago I’ve had to find a way to bring in some money so that we could continue to own our lovely home and pay all of our bills.

It’s been hard, but for those of you who have been reading this blog you know that I’ve managed to do quite well as far as creating an income that we can live off of through the internet. I’m at the point now that I think I’m actually making more than I did when I worked as an ER nurse.

I know that several of the people who read my blog have also found ways to make income from the internet. Either through creating their own businesses or doing work here and there for a multitude of internet related companies.

Have you ever thought of Living Abroad? I mean, if you are making a great income from work that you do through home, or your home based business there’s no reason that you can’t do it from any place in the world. Is there? Heck, if you choose to move to the right country you could even be making a tax free income and thus have even more money to live off of. This is beginning to sound more and more appealing isn’t it?

Where would you go if you decided to pack it all up and work from home?

I know that I’d probably enjoy living and working in an exotic location. Someplace that was fairly warm year round, and in my case it would also have to have a decent health care system since I have Crohn’s disease. Hmmm Maybe a country such as Australia or Belize would work for me.

Naturally if I were really going to pack up and move to an exotic local I’d likely end up having to buy a property abroad as well. At this point, we’d have to either sell the home we are living in now, or rent it out in order to do this, but it’s a thought isn’t it?

I’ve never been to visit Australia or Belize, but the thought of being able to work from home in one of those locations is very appealing. If we could manage it, I’d try to get a home close to the ocean and beach. Hey, since I work with my computer alone, I could perhaps even sit on the beach each day as I got my work done. Oh that’d be so nice.

I’d miss our Canadian Spring and Autumn because I love watching how the seasons change here, but I don’t think I’d miss our cold, cold winters all that much.

If you work from home, have an e-business, or have a dream of being able to work from home where would you want to live and why?

If the idea of living abroad and working from home is appealing you should visit the Living and Working Abroad Resource website that got me thinking of living in an exotic local. You’ll find articles discussing immigration laws, health care, advantages of living or retiring in other Countries and a whole lot more.

Do visit the site. It’s good to dream, and you never know, by reading the Living and Working Abroad Resource website you may find a way to make your dreams a reality.

Filed Under: Culture, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, Make Money, Moving or Organizing, Sales and Marketing, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: Australia, Belize, crohns, e business, France, Health and Fitness, health care, Health Fitness and Beauty, home based business, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Live abroad, live in exotic location, Living and Working Abroad, pain, Portugal, Shelter off shore, shelteroffshore.com, Spain, tax free income, work anywhere, work on internet, working abroad resource

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