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REVEL Big Bear Marathon Recap: Qualifying for Boston After 30 Marathons

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REVEL Big Bear Marathon Recap: Qualifying for Boston After 30 Marathons This post goes with Episode 29 of Marrying Your Passions : The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts for the full story, including a few moments that are even better heard than read. Nathan and Alicia at the finish line of the REVEL Big Bear races back in 2021! Some races are just races. Some change your life. For us, REVEL Big Bear in Southern California was the second kind. In November 2021, Nathan lined up for his 30th marathon with one goal he had been chasing for more than a decade: qualifying for the Boston Marathon . That same morning, Alicia ran her very first half marathon down the very same mountain. With Big Bear running under the REVEL name for the last time on November 7, 2026, before the series joins Vacation Races , we wanted to look back at the race weekend that remains one of the highlights of our lives, and share what we learned for anyone thinking about running...
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Custom Travel in Costa Rica and Beyond: What We Learned From Explore the Americas

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Custom Travel in Costa Rica and Beyond: What We Learned From Explore the Americas Our most recent episode takes us south of the border to talk with Melanie Marsell and Kathleen Hall, co-founders of Explore the Americas , formerly Dive the Americas .  If you have not listened yet, go check out Episode 28 first, then come back here for the details, resources for your next international trip, and a few things we did not have time to cover on the mic. We've loved our time in Latin America and the Caribbean. So, having Kathleen and Melanie on the show to learn more about traveling in the region was a blast.  Who They Are Melanie was born in Costa Rica, moved to Florida around age 10, and went back after college to study tourism at UF and build her career in the region. She is a self described lifelong entrepreneur in the making. Kathleen came to Costa Rica in 2015 to finish a biology degree, told herself she would stay an extra year, and never left. She never planned to run a ...
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Montreal, Canada: The Trip That Started It All

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Montreal, Canada: The Trip That Started It All This post accompanies Episode 27 of Marrying Your Passions, "Montreal Travel Guide: Old Montreal, Mont Royal & Notre Dame Basilica." Listen to the full conversation for the stories, the laughs, and everything we could not fit into this post. Nathan and Alicia visiting Mont Royal way back in 2006. Their first trip EVER together as a couple! Before marriage. Before the 50 state marathon quest. Before any of it, there was Montreal. This one goes back further than almost anything else we've ever written about. Back to August 2006, when we took our very first trip together as a couple, and back again to 2023, when we finally made it back and got to see it all with completely different eyes. Where It All Began It was the summer between Nathan's undergraduate and graduate degrees, and Alicia was already in law school. We'd been officially dating for about five or six months, honestly probably less than that when the tri...
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