Category: Roadside Attraction

The Most Exciting, Yet Most Anxiety Causing Stage Of Booking Travel

It’s a very exciting time of the year here at YMMV headquarters. Halloween has just passed and we’re already doing the pre-work to get the house ready for Christmas. That means there are plenty of totes and boxes spread all over the house and garage in one fantastic, one-holiday-going-out, one-holiday-coming-in mess.

While I dislike the mess, I know that out of this will come a holiday display that will bring joy to us and the rest of the people who come by the house to look at it.

Before:

After:

“A Christmas Story” tree

Now watch me strain this metaphor to make it relevant to planning travel for next year.

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Ten Really Cool Places For Geeks & Nerds To Visit In Los Angeles

A while back we wrote about places in New York City that would be perfect for geeks and nerds. Of course, the Big Apple isn’t the only place with such locations; Los Angeles has more than its share of stuff for geeks and nerds to enjoy…

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Florida’s Next Theme Park Might Be A….Snow Park?!?!?!

When you think of Florida as a tourist destination, you imagine a lot of things – sunshine, beaches, the theme parks of the Orlando area, the history of St. Augustine, the laid back feelings of Key West, etc. But there’s one thing most people don’t think about.

Snow.

But thanks to some innovative people, that might be about to change.

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The World’s Largest Christmas Light Maze & Market Is Coming To Florida (And Seattle. AND Washington D.C.)

It’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas, right? (for those of you who, like my husband, are saying. “WRONG!,” just….shup! LOLOL!)

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Joe says Christmas season doesn’t start until after Thanksgiving. (Sharon says Joe is wrong. it starts the day after Halloween)

Well, for those of you who love all things Christmas as much as I do, there’s good news! The people who have been making the world’s largest Christmas light maze since 2016 are coming back this year! And not only will there be THREE mazes around the country to choose from (St. Petersburg, FL, Seattle, WA and Washington D.C.), but tickets are now on sale!

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New Advice for PreCheck & Global Entry, Warnings Countries Give About USA, Airports with Longest/Shortest TSA Lines, & More!

And in the blink of an eye, we’re already well into the first week of September. Time goes by so quickly! Anyway, here are our most popular posts for August 2019. Some of them were actually written before August (heads up that rules and offers change and we can’t guarantee that those older posts are still accurate), so take a look to make sure you didn’t miss any of the good stuff:

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