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Travel Tip Tuesday: Five Tips for Reducing Jet Lag
Imagine this.
You spend years saving for that once-of-a-lifetime intercontinental vacation. You spend months planning details, from tracking down the iciest mint mojitos, to the most exotic thatched-roof tiki huts, to the best, and most renowned, jungle tour of the water rapids. You spend weeks packing your suitcases and e-mailing your itinerary to everyone from your Grandpa John [...]
Summer, Love and Strawberries
Or that could be “summer love” and strawberries …
Either way I’m hoping you have a love-filled summer and plenty of fun, friendship and fresh fruit to go around!
Happy Love Thursday.
Check back on Wednesday for this strawberry tiramisu recipe - just in time to celebrate America’s 4th of July holiday!
Guest Blogger Geggie: Hotel Reviews in Europe
With the new limited posting schedule and Travel Tip Tuesday mandates the “15th of the Month Review” got bounced back a few days. But I think we are making up for it. Today is Part I of a Two-Part series on hotel reviews, brought to us by guest blogger, avid traveler and Burt’s Bees addict Geggie of So [...]
MBV is Goin’ to Texas … So Come Here and Blog!
That’s right.
After weeks of ticket searching, airline scouting and heavy duty praying the search has ended. I found a ticket and I didn’t even have to mortgage my house to get it … and I still get to keep my first born child, too.
As anyone who is planning a summer vacation has realized, airline tickets [...]
Howdy, Ya’ll
Thanks for coming.
Did you have any problems finding the place?
Well, sadly my house is still under construction, but My Bella Vita has moved. (Yes…she has a life of her own!) And, boy was it an experience. When you start with an impatient personality and toss in a bit of html code, disaster will surely strike!
But, I was lucky. [...]
Missing You
Hi there. Just wanted to say I miss talking to ya’ll….
Will post soon.
How it all started….
I grew up in a small southeast Texas town called KOUNTZE! There are about 2,000 people who live there, and, like it or not, everyone knows each other (and their business) inside and out! I was blessed with a wonderful, super-supportive family who gave me the tools I needed to have a successful life.
After college [...]


