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Beat the January Blues With These 10 Budget-Friendly Tips

By //  by Candace Sampson Leave a Comment

The January blues, aka post-holiday depression, seasonal depression, winter blues, or what I like to call temporary insanity, can be a common occurrence after the festive season comes to an end. It's natural to feel a little down after the excitement and celebration of the holidays but add in the shorter days, some extra weight many of us carry into the new year, and temperatures as cold as a witches tit, and it's no wonder we're collectively depressed. As we inch closer to Blue Monday, the …

Filed Under: Health & Wellness, Living, Tips & Advice, Top Ten Tagged With: budget-friendly, exercise, financial planning, gratitude, healthy habits, January blues, mental health, mental health therapy, mindfulness, nature, post holiday depression, seasonal depression, self-care, self-improvement goals, socialization, stress management, temporary insanity, volunteering, winter blues

Agawa Canyon Railway, train tour, Canada 150, exploring

The Agawa Canyon Railway Tour – A Beautiful Way to Explore Ontario

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With Canada’s 150th birthday approaching, have you wondered what Canada looked like at the time of Confederation – or even earlier? If you’ve ever wanted to step back in time and see what much of Canada looked like hundreds of years ago, all without leaving the province then the Agawa Canyon Railway Tour is a great window to the past. Most of the 10 hour round trip train ride into the Agawa Canyon is out of reach of cell service – phones and tablets read “no service” and teens, tweens, …

Filed Under: Canada, Ontario, Travel Tagged With: Agawa Canyon, Algoma, beauty, explore Canada, explore Ontario, nature, Ontario, park, Railway, sault ste. marie, summer railway tours, tourism, Train, train for Canada's 150, train tours in Canada

dude ranch, guest ranch, British Columbia, Alberta, Western USA, ranches, cattle ranches, horseback riding, horses, working farm, working ranch, log cabins, rustic, family fun, family travel, photographs

Why You Need To Visit A Dude Ranch

By //  by Katja Wulfers 3 Comments

Let’s face it: getting away from it all is on everyone’s mind almost all the time. Maybe this general malaise we feel is rooted in the noise of our lives: running from one activity to another, juggling work, another late night at the rink, pasta sauce that’s exploded on the stove again thanks to a grade 7 math emergency, the phone glued to our hips…it all equals get me out of here. But it’s not enough to check into a hotel, flop back on half a dozen pillows of different thicknesses and flip …

Filed Under: Canada, Family Fun, Travel, United States Tagged With: campfire cookouts, Canada, cattle drives, dude ranch, family fun, guest ranch, horseback riding, horses, nature, outdoors, ranches, rustic retreat, the West, USA

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