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Join this week’s Not-so Usual Therapy Session (#NUTS) for some super fun Resolution Therapy. Welcome to our Therapy Group! This Week’s Theme: *Resolution Therapy* straight-jacket optional, sense of humor required We believe the Midlife Road Trip is the perfect therapy for a midlife crisis so each week we host a super fun online therapy [...]
Posted in NUTS | Tagged diets, food, New Year's, resolutions, travel |
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We had the pleasure of interviewing six-time GRAMMY® Award nominee Dave Koz His live show, “Dave Koz and Friends A Smooth Jazz Christmas ″ is a hit, year after year! The Famous Audrey Koz Chocolate Chip Cookie 1/3 cup softened butter 1/4 cup Canola oil 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 large egg [...]
Posted in Food, Videos | Tagged Bucket List, Celebrity, cookies, cooking, dave koz, Emeril, inspiration, interview, jazz, music, saxaphone, travel |
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Oprah isn’t the only one who has favorite things …. With the holidays upon us, we’re looking for your favorite things … We want YOUR best gift giving ideas …. We want to know, everything from the latest & greatest to the chia pet of yore. We are especially interested in gift items that are [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged adventure, chia pet, food, holiday gifts, midlife road trip, Oprah, travel |
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Here’s a fun-filled behind the scenes look at the Tejas Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas. Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Bucket List, bull riding, cattle, cow, cowboy, cowgirl, hearding, humor, Rick Griffin, rodeo, rodeo school, roping, San Antonio, Sandi McKenna, Tejas, Texas, travel |
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We met some interesting people in Times Square in New York city. We got some pretty interesting answers to the question, “What’s on your Bucket List?” Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Bucket List, Ireland, Japan, New York City, Super Model, Times Square, travel |
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Seeing 1.5 million bats take flight is an amazing sight. While in Austin, Texas for SXSW (South by Southwest) we visited the famed Congress Bridge – home of the largest urban bat colony in the world! Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Austin, bat, bat bridge, bat swarm, bats, bilingual, Congress Bridge, flight, fly, kite, midlife, Rick Griffin, SXSW, Texas, tourists, travel, TX |
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While at Guy Fieri’s closing party at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, we ran into one of our favorite Travel Channel celebrities, Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, eating of all things, a cupcake. Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods, Bucket List, Celebrity, cupcake, food, Guy Fieri, midlife road trip, Orient Express, South Beach, travel, Travel Chanel, Wine and Food Festival |
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Just a taste of what we’re all about. Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged adventure, baby boomers, cruises, midlife, travel, vacation |
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Travel Channel: Plane Sexy: Flying in the Jet Age Leave the fast-paced, hectic world of today’s air travel, and take a trip back in time to the Jet Age, when flying was fun, glamorous and sexy. Tweet
Posted in Blog | Tagged ABC, airplane, Amazing Race, CBS, fall lineup, Fox, Gordon Ramsay, Hotel Hell, jet age, Pan Am, Plane Sexy, sexy, television, travel, Travel Channel, TV |
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Midlife Road Trip’s @RickGriffin was the subject of the BBC’s Passport Travel Blog where he gave his usual humorous take on the traveling life. Tweet
Posted in Media, Media Coverage | Tagged BBC, BBC Travel, food, humor, interview, midlife road trip, passport, Rick Griffin, travel, travel tips |
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What We Did Many people refer Prague in the Czech Republic as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Participating in the Mongol Rally didn’t provide nearly enough time to experience the city as I would have liked, but fortunately we hooked up with Viator Travel and booked a segway tour. Tweet
Posted in Blog, Bucket List, Mongol Rally, Scrapbook | Tagged apartment, Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge, Czech, Czech republic, food, kraut, photos, pork, Prague, Praha, Segway, tours, travel |
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Route Planning has proven to be fun and challenging. The challenging part has been figuring out things like which border crossings foreigners are allowed to enter and which roads to take in the areas uncharted by Google Maps. The fun part has been anticipating the things we’ll do and see along the way Over the [...]
Posted in Blog, Mongol Rally | Tagged Belgium, Brussels, brussle sprouts, Budapest, chunnel, Czech republic, English Channel, ferry, France, Frankfurt, french fries, garlic, Germany, Google, Hungary, Mongol Rally, Pragye, Romania, Segway, Transylvania, travel |
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I’m actually looking forward to the 6 to 8 hours of drive time my teammates and I will endure each day throughout the Mongol Rally. I know that sounds crazy but I view it as an opportunity to catch up on listening to podcasts from some of my newest travel heroes, Craig and Linda Martin [...]
Posted in Blog, Mongol Rally | Tagged blog, Craig Martin, Indie Travel Podcast, Linda Martin, Mongol Rally, nox audio, podcast, travel |
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After watching La Cage on Broadway in New York City, we caught up with Kelsey Grammer to find out what’s on his bucket list. Tweet
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN to Midlife Road Trip on the Best People We Know Show with host Deb Scott. The perfect therapy for a midlife crisis – The MidLife Roadtrip! It’s the firm belief of Sandi and Rick that a road trip is the perfect therapy for a midlife crisis. They are all about encouraging [...]
Posted in Media Coverage | Tagged 2011, Best People We Know, blog, Blog Talk Radio, Bucket List, Deb Scott, entertaining, february, food, fun, inspiration, interview, midlife, motivation, passion, radio, Rick Griffin, road trip, Sandi McKenna, talk, travel, Twitter |
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I had intended to write about my training regimen for the upcoming Mongol Rally, But an unexpected bout of pancreatitis landed me in the hospital. Being in the hospital is not all bad. Not only did I receive some of the best medical care in the world, I got to legally experience some incredible hallucinogenic [...]
Posted in Blog, Mongol Rally | Tagged 2011, Anurex, apteka, charades, february, Gadansk, hallucinogenic, health, health care, healthcare, hemorrhoid, hospital, hospitals, human pin cushion, insurance, Kyrgyzstan, medical, medication, Moldova, Mongol Rally, pain, painkillers, pancreas, pancreatitis, pharmacy, physician, Poland, prescription, road trip, road warrior, sponge baths, travel, weightloss |
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We have a saying that MidLife isn’t the beginning of the end but the beginning of the beginning! It’s the right time, the perfect time to try something new, see what we haven’t seen before, venture out of our comfort zone and meet new challenges. From jumping out of planes to rock climbing and reaching [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2010 by cruisemuse Copyright – Princess Cruises aaaaah… Alaska. While my right brain fed vicariously on the travel porn of the recent Princess Cruises social media junket; my right brain couldn’t help but wanting to analyze data and results. (RT @TripAdvisor: Travel porn is watching people do things you’ll never do [...]
Posted in Media, Media Coverage | Tagged Alaska, all-inclusive, Cruise, family travel, Princess Cruises, travel, vacation |
