{"id":14589,"date":"2011-11-02T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=14589"},"modified":"2011-11-02T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:48:07","slug":"trip-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/11\/trip-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Boulder_Pamphlets.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14590\" title=\"Boulder Pamphlets \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Boulder_Pamphlets-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Boulder_Pamphlets-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Boulder_Pamphlets-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Boulder_Pamphlets.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Look at what arrived in the mail this week! Boulder visitor&#8217;s information guides. I might have jumped up and down a little bit when I saw them in the mail box.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownboulder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boulder website<\/a> and requested information. \u00a0It&#8217;s really handy because you can pick and choose what kind of information you&#8217;re looking for along with what time of year you&#8217;ll be visiting.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a lot of handy maps that came with the package of information.<\/p>\n<p>Along with that, we officially picked the day we are leaving for Boulder, which is March 31st. \u00a0The countdown has begun!<\/p>\n<p>This trip planning is a little more involved because we&#8217;re not only staying in Boulder but also traveling around the state and visiting different areas. \u00a0With that means there&#8217;s a lot of planning involved and a lot of researching because we need places to stay in each area we visit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun researching! But it&#8217;s also causing my routine and Type A personality to go into overdrive.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling with Rocky makes things a little more tricky because we have to find pet friendly locations. \u00a0The obstacles I&#8217;m running into are some places saying they are pet friendly only to find out their idea of pet friendly means dogs have to stay outside.<\/p>\n<p>Um, no. \u00a0And really? That&#8217;s not pet friendly at all.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a brief overnight in Kansas during the road trip we&#8217;re trying to avoid hotels. \u00a0Unless we could get a really awesome suite that has a place for office set up and a small kitchenette with fridge and stove\/oven.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to have something close to downtown areas so we can walk the cities and towns, along with being able to walk to\u00a0restaurants\u00a0and shopping.<\/p>\n<p>The places I&#8217;ve been checking out are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbnb.com\" target=\"_blank\">AirBNB<\/a> which is currently my favorite site. \u00a0I love that it&#8217;s interactive and you can connect with others and build up a profile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeaway.com\" target=\"_blank\">HomeAway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrbo.com\" target=\"_blank\">VRBO<\/a> (Vacation Rentals By Owner)<\/p>\n<p>These are sites that list houses and condos which is ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Our requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Close to downtown areas<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Wireless connection (we still need to work while away)<\/li>\n<li>Pet Friendly (Dogs inside, and accepts dogs over 25lbs. Rocky is 60lbs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\" target=\"_blank\">TripAdvisor<\/a> just for other information about the areas.\u00a0 TripAdvisor is great for looking for hotel rentals but not so much on the vacation home and condo rentals.<\/p>\n<p>For the homes and condos, we are <em>not<\/em> looking to share space with the owners or renting the basement out. \u00a0Because we&#8217;re going to be touring a lot, working from the space, and having Rocky, we would like something a little more private. We don&#8217;t want to feel like we&#8217;re intruding or causing a conflict in routines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seasoned travelers, any advice for us?<\/strong> \u00a0I haven&#8217;t booked a place just yet but I am looking to get that part taken care of this month. \u00a0Any websites that I could check out for rentals that I didn&#8217;t list here? \u00a0Any experiences with the above places you&#8217;d like to share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what arrived in the mail this week! Boulder visitor&#8217;s information guides. I might have jumped up and down a little bit when I saw them in the mail box. I went to the Boulder website and requested information. \u00a0It&#8217;s really handy because you can pick and choose what kind of information you&#8217;re looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[96],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3Nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}