So just how healthy are we going to be this Thanksgiving? Well, we did go to the special grocery store down the road this morning to pick up a roasted turkey roll that came from a free-range, non-hormoned, not pumped up with solutions bird. Does that count for healthy? Oh, and does buying an already cooked roast help classify us as being green as well?
Not really but we’d like to think so. We are also going to do the pumpkin cheesecake, the candied yams, the sausage-cornbread stuffing with oysters and turkey gravy and that’s all going to have to be heated up somehow. This may not be a good example of healthy living. But it has to be healthy–we are leaving out the mashed potatoes and all that butter!!!
Well if you aren’t going to have the healthiest of feasts this Thanksgiving, then opt for a great and healthy travel day.
For all of you out there who are traveling this holiday to see family and friends, one of the best travel trips we can suggest is to take some healthy nibble food along because today is one of the worst (longest travel day, mostly late flights and crowded roadways) travel days of the year. The only day worse might be the Sunday after Thanksgiving because it’s also the start of Hunting Season in many states as well as a major travel day. Don’t be on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after 12:00pm noon that day if you want to get where you are going.
Now what do we mean by healthy nibble food? Something we like to do besides take organic fruit is put really raw almonds (not the pasteurized ones), organic raisins and coconut chips, unsalted/raw sunflower seeds – all thrown together to give yourself a great trail mix. This mix is a good way to curb hunger while flying and driving.
There are also some great raw cacao bars being made these days (we plan to do a product review soon) that give you so many health benefits (read up on anything by David Wolfe) plus they taste great, impart that wonderful theobromine feeling of being in love and help maintain a high energy level. Who would have thought there were healthy chocolate bars? And I just heard about a new product–raw cacao brittle. Have some of this on order – will let you know how it tastes after Dec. 15th.
And to get you through a long travel day, say your money and remain hydrated. Checkout our earlier blog on how to have inexpensive and healthy water while in the airport (Click here). Grab your filtering water bottle, your lemon or grapefruit essential oil and your liquid minerals and off you go.
So healthy flying or healthy driving and enjoy that maybe not so healthy Thanksgiving feast,
Mel
Hello Everyone -
Once again we have worked today on how this website appears to you out there. We received some helpful comments about the look of the site and hopefully have improved it from what you experienced yesterday.
What an amazing journey this website construction/re-construction has become. We are utilizing our healthy living tips to just deal with the stress of making all this come together in a way that loads quickly and makes some sense when you read it.
So we went online this morning and looked for additional tools to handle the stress of constructing your own website so we can remain healthy and keep this site going. And we found some stress reduction tools that were either free or very reasonable. So we are going to try out some of these stress reduction tools and let you know in a product review what works for us. And this now has us working on yet another page or two.
Oh, and we finally got our first article published with ezinearticle.com. We had no idea it would take us 5 submissions to get just a small article online. What a learning experience that was and so now we can work on more articles.
Is there anyone out there who has mastered the fine art of publishing travel tips? As a full-time Road Warrior, I would love to hear about your experiences and check out those tips.
Thanks,
Mel
Featured in BizWeb eGazette
Hello Everyone – Just got word from Jim at JDD Publishing www.bizweb2000.com that this website was being featured in his newsletter about his coaching clients who are completely new to doing business online. Yes we are newbies when it comes to this website and blogging but we have been receiving great coaching support from him.
As Jim mentioned in his eGazette, this site was built over the course of about a month using the WordPress Blog Template “Patagonia” and then it was rebuilt in about 5 days for a niche change (we decided to broaden our scope to both Healthy Living and Travel Tips). Thank goodness for WP because I don’t think we could have pulled off the 2nd rebuild without this template and the techies at Hostgator.
Has anyone out there gone through this, especially in your first few weeks online?
We have an Opt-in form that is still under construction – Aweber went live yesterday with their new Web Form Generator, so some of that re-build we did this past week, had to be completely re-done again. So bear with us if things don’t appear quite like you would expect them to be.
In fact, please leave us a comment below so we can fix anything that looks amiss. And if you like what you see, tell us that too, so we can include more posts on those subjects. Our posts here are somewhat long we know but that’s because there’s so much to talk about when it comes to healthy living and you already know that I am a Road Warrior traveling full-time both domestically and internationally.
So with all the stress of this site’s construction, we are taking the weekend off. We need to return to a Healthy Body and a Healthy Mind(set). I have been challenged to write about the Top 10 Tips for Road Warriors so we will be doing some thinking while we relax.
Drop us a comment or two on how you are de-stressing this weekend and what’s your best travel tip.
Thanks,
Mel
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Hello everyone -
Just wanted to let everyone know why my other website disappeared this last week. It seems that the title of that website interfered with another website’s trademark. This was never our intention when we chose the site’s name. And even though they are a clinic and do “doctor” and travel agency things like vaccinations and passport photos and we are nothing like that, rather than battle it out in court, we took that website down. So we have spent the better part of the last 5 days completely re-constructing this new website.
I hope that all this change has not inconvenienced anyone other than us. But enough about difficulties, we are about solutions here especially Healthy Living. It’s another passion of ours that we now have broadened our focus to as a result of the change and of course our original subject Healthy Travel Solutions is still with us because you already know it is something we are totally focused on because we travel so much!
If you have not checked out our new Products page, you might want to see a new feature from Amazon. It’s called a carousel which is simply another way of displaying healthy living and travel tip items on your website. We have had selected some great items from all the things that can be purchased through Amazon and displayed it carousels. We thought it is was kind of clever and searched for things we already own or know to have received mostly 4 and 5 star ratings from other purchasers. It’s actually our ”Wish List” or list of some “Must Have’s” and over time we will go into more detail about items we have not reviewed yet on this site.
There are 2 carousels on our Products page for your viewing pleasure. Check them out here Healthy Living and Travel Tips Recommendations
In the meantime, we would love to hear about your healthy living solutions and anything you have found was a major travel help. Join us in the re-launching of this site and about finding the best solutions. We have added Healthy Living into the mix and we welcome your comments.
Thanks for hanging in there with us,
Mel and the Team
P.S. A couple of other good things came from re-doing the site. We feel it’s operating much faster and would like your thoughts on that as well, plus we ended up completely retyping the FREE eBook, Dealing with Flying Naturally, that we send you as a gift for subscribing to our healthy living and travel tips newsletter (which also had to be re-done). The eBook magically went from 8 mb in size and was taking forever to download to about 4kb in size (so much faster). So if you haven’t signed up for that gift, check it out here or send us a note through our Contact page and we will send you the new and improved version.
What do you think?
For me I just experienced another incident where travel ended up being more difficult because I did not make an attempt to bring along healthy snacks prior to departing. I thought I was saving myself some effort and going for easy travel. But the result of that decision was being faced with bad and even worse choices for food and drinks.
Why did I decide to make the trip easy or what I thought was going to be easy? Well, quite simply, it’s a hassle to have to bring along another bag which is what I would have needed to do to bring food. Even with my spinner luggage, another bag means something else has to be carted or slung over the shoulder. I already had a small carryon, my spinner and my laptop case. I really didn’t want a 4th bag which meant checking in at least two so on this trip, no healthy food came along.
But this decision actually made the whole trip more difficult. Upon arrival in Dallas, I used a shuttle service to take me from the airport to my hotel downtown so I was not the master of my ability to stop at a grocery store and buy food. The hotel had a restaurant but it was expensive, so I ended up buying snacks and drinks from the hotel gift shop part of the time that were so far from healthy you would laugh. (Can you spell PRINGLES?) Not a single orange or apple in sight.
And my options last night trying to get home from Dallas were not much better. It can be particularly difficult to find healthy food once you go through security but each airport is different. What I found last night after security at DFW was candy, salted nuts and chips, dried fruits with sulfites and sugar, sugared soft drinks and diet soft drinks with artificial sweetners and bottled water.
I could find no fresh fruit or yogurt other than frozen yogurt because I was running late and didn’t have time to investigate beyond my gate. There actually is healthier food at DFW, just not where I was. So that easy travel was not and my energy throughout the trip suffered for it. Maybe I will bring another bag next time . . .
The noise on airplane flights these days can be deafening from the engine whine to the baby crying. A way to maintain Healthy Hearing while traveling on airlines, trains or buses is to use noise canceling headphones. They can range from $21.00 to over $350.00 based on noise canceling quality, styles and materials used. Here are some of the on ear models and price ranges that are featured in depth at product reviews – noise canceling headphones that you might want to consider.
You can spend a fortune ($250.00 – $350.00) on superior models that cancel out even greater than 95% of noise like:
- Monster Beats by Dr. Dre
- Sony MDR-NC500D
- Bose QuietComfort 3
But there are several units on the market that can eliminate 85%-95% of the noise for around $75-$150.00 including the:
- JVC HA-NC250
- Sony MDR-NC60
- Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint
And finally there are those lesser priced headphones that can cancel about 60%-85% of ambient noise ranging from $21.00 – $35.00 like:
- JVC HA-NC100
- Philips HN110 Headphone
- Creative HN-605
For the serious or full-time traveler spending $300 for headphones could be seen as a requirement and not a luxury. A full-time traveler can justify the pricing for the higher end models, but for my money even though I travel full-time, the mid-price range is an excellent compromise because I have already lost one expensive pair and don’t want to do that again. The JVC HA-NC250 model is my preference because the noise canceling quality is rated superior just below the Bose QuietComfort 3 but the pricing is mid-range. Check this model out on the Internet as you might be able to find them for somewhere between $78.00 and $100.00.
Please leave a comment letting us know what kinds of headphones you have used in your travels to keep your ears healthy while traveling.