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Is burnout the worst for nurses??? 🫣 I don’t wanna work a lot, but I do wanna travel a lot 😆….so it’s way too much work for meeee.
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Adventure | Travel | Nurse Anesthetist | CRNA | More Flights | Less Work | Bucketlist Travel | World Travel by @jaimeparke

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Two trips, but felt like three separate vacays. They were all so different!! Time of our lives this summer, so grateful for all the fun mems! 😍🥹🙏🏼
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European Vacation | Euro Summer | I Love Europe | Beach | City Tour | Mountains by @jaimeparke

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And then you forget and need to do it all over again!! 🤣 How many have you said?? 😄

Hiker Humor | Trail Fun | Alpine Hiking | Outdoor Vacation | TMB | Hiking Fam | Hiking Couple taken in Chamonix Mont Blanc (French Alps) by @jaimeparke

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2 months ago

This is not a trip you just show up for and hope for the best! It requires a lot of planning. Most people start about a year in advance, planning their route and contacting the rifugios to get a reservation. Some I got before the official TMB website opened (because not all use the site), but the official TMB site opened reservations October 15th, and trust me they go FAST!! Lac Blanc didn’t open their reservations till April 1st and you betta believe I took the day off to secure that reservation lol! 😂
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I didn’t get all the ones I originally planned for, so some of our days ended up longer or shorter than I was wanting, but be sure to have a backup plan! I did it all myself, but you can also pay someone to do it all for you, but still no guarantee you’ll get your preferred rifugios!
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If you have questions about the mountain huts, lmk, happy to help, it really was a trip of a lifetime!
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TMB | Mountain Huts | Rifugios | Tour du Mont Blanc | Bucketlist Hikes | Epic Hikes | Alpine Hiking by @jaimeparke

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2 months ago

When you stay in the mountain huts (rifugios) they do a half board, which means they give you dinner and a small breakfast.
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It’s served group style, typically, and they did offer vegetarian. Usually it was a soup and bread (never once was butter offered, to Blake’s dismay 😂), the entree, and a dessert. Here’s what our rifugio’s served….
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Night 1 - vegetable broth, veggie penne pasta, no sauce maybe just an olive oil, lemon cake
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Night 2 - broth soup, pot roast & cous cous, and pudding dessert
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Night 3 - soup, spaghetti with tomato sauce, roasted pork & frozen veggies, dessert
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Night 4 - in a town and hotel so no half board provided. We got pizza & gelato!
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Night 5 - coleslaw type salad, penne pasta w/ tomato sauce, veal and mashed potatoes, choc mint panna cotta
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Night 6 - chicken noodle tasting broth soup, tandoori chicken and vegetable rice with ratatouille, and ice cream cake
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Night 7 - green salad, tartiflette (potatoes, cheese, bacon and a cream sauce) and dessert
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Night 8 - creamy mushroom soup, rotini pasta w/ kielbasa and a creamy basil sauce, and yogurt w/ fresh blueberry compote.
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Night 9 - broth soup, Nepalese Dal Bhat (chicken and rice served w/ a lentil soup on top), apple cake
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We had no clue what to expect food wise, but we’re overall happy w/ what was served!
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TMB | Backpacking | Hiking | 100 mile hike | Tour du Mont Blanc | European hike | Hut to Hut by @jaimeparke

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TMB….Tour du Mont Blanc. A 105 mile hike circling the Mont Blanc Massif, Western Europe’s highest peak, and passes through France, Italy, and Switzerland!
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Would you do it?? Tag the person you want to do this with! Logistically, there’s a lot of planning, I started a year before we actually went…more tips on that coming!! 🏔️
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TMB Tour du Mont Blanc Hiking trip European hiking Hut to hut hikes by @jaimeparke

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2 months ago

BELGIUM + GERMANY WERE MUCH KINDER TO US!! 😄
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This half of the trip was absolute perfection, we loved it all!! The waffles, the frites, the schnitzels, the CHOCOLATE! The incredible and unique buildings and architecture, the beauty, just ALL of it!
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We had so much fun and would absolutely go back for more! Check my story highlight for even more pics/mems from the trip, most of it is there!
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We even flew back business class for the first time on a long haul flight, and I fear…..we may never do it any other way again 🤣🤣 We at least don’t want too, that is SO much better of a way to travel! 😄
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Germany Vacation Belgium Summer European Vacation Summer Travel Family Travel by @jaimeparke

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3 months ago

We ended up getting stuck in the Azores an extra 4 days because of weather, mechanical failures, and a countrywide transportation strike…so missed most of our time on mainland Portugal. Which was a total bummer because I really wanted to see Porto, Braga, and Guimaraes. Plus we didn’t have great weather to just live it up on an island, not to mention the thousands of extra dollars it cost us being stuck there…..BUT, we did still have a great time making the most of it, ate some of the most delicious food, still made some very memorable memories, and once we got to mainland Portugal, down to the amazing Algarve, everything was incredible, and mostly forgotten!
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Jk, I don’t think I’d ever chance the Azores again, it’s too iffy if things go wrong imo. There’s also no shot I could ever convince Blake and Li to give it another go 😆😂
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Just as a sidenote, travel itself is unpredictable, you have to learn to roll with it when things go wrong, or away from your expected plans, because sometimes there’s not a lot you can do to fix it in the moment besides wait it out and pivot your plans. I don’t think many people think about it, or plan for it…… but those new plans can sometimes be costly, and though you may be able to get reimbursed for it eventually, maybe, it’s on you in the moment, so plan for that! I saw people veryyyy upset about how they were supposed to afford the hotels and rental cars they didn’t plan for, and rates literally doubled from May 31 to June 1st because now, one day later it was considered busy season and hotels are $500+ a night.
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This was by far the most crazy, inconvenient, bummerest wrench to our travel plans we’ve experienced to date, and we’ve been through it before 🤣 but we still are so blessed and grateful to even have been on the trip at all! 🙏🏼 We saw beautiful sights and landscapes, hiked through good and bad weather, snorkeled w/ dolphins, saw castles and coves and caves, kayaked, got attacked by massive waves, and overall learned even more about the ins and out of traveling. Till the next one! We stay undeterred, there will be more!! 😄 💯
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Christmas was almost 6 mos ago….but this deserved a perm spot on my feed! 😍😄
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If you’ve considered a Christmas trip, go for it!! We’d never done one before, our kids always wanted to be home for Christmas and family and traditions, but this was our only time to be able to go all together on a vacation, so we went for it!
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We did our Christmas, and all our traditions, the day we flew out, and it worked great, also bc we had an evening flight.
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We all agreed it was nbd and we’d do it again! 😃 Have you taken trips over Christmas? Or would you??
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Christmas vacation Egypt Travel Family World Travel Bucket list Destinations by @jaimeparke

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Figured I better post this before we go on another trip!! I’m late, so late with this, but the mem’s are still so fresh!! 🥰 It was the first trip in a while that Gage was with us and we were all together, which made it all the better! 🩷
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We saw all the main tourist sites, ancient statues, endless hieroglyphics, ate delicious food, rode camels, went scuba diving in the Red Sea, hiked Mt Sinai at midnight to be there for sunrise, took a boat ride on the Nile, climbed inside and out of pyramids, and walked a million miles!! 😄 20 pics of all this just isn’t enough space!! 🤣
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Egypt was a bucketlist destination, bc….its Egypt, but we were all pleasantly surprised with how much we liked it!
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December was a great time too! It was cool in the mornings, but afternoons were warm without being sweltering hot.
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And we also felt safe, the whole time. We did have a private guide with us to help learn, navigate, and avoid being scammed, which I’m sure helped, but even at times on our own, felt totally fine! I have the guides contact info if you want it, and if you’re considering a trip to Egypt….i wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it! 🇪🇬
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Egypt travel Egypt vacation family travel world destinations world travel by @jaimeparke

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I’m late, sooo late 😆, but getting back into documenting it all, bc memories matter!! Better late than never they say! 😉

#curacao #familyvacay #beachesfordays by @jaimeparke

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7 months ago

The gang’s back together again! Breaky w/ the besties! 🩷🤎💙
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We’ve never stopped talking to each other, but if I’m being honest, I neverrrr thought we’d work together again!
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Backstory some of you already know….I did direct sales for almost 10 years. Going into that tenth year, I fell out of alignment with the products and partly the biz model (I just needed to be able to do it a different way), and while I never fully left, I couldn’t do it genuinely, and also didn’t feel good faking it.
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FAST FORWARD…..I found out the reason I always felt the pull to stay, just give it a little longer 😂 Enter ZINZINO. The merge! THIS I feel fully genuine about. THIS I had already transitioned to researching and incorporating into my life a year or so prior. THIS makes sense.
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When you see our food, the health of Americans, the ailments and chronic illnesses….you can’t unsee it. THIS gives a measurable way to see where you stand with your health, from home, and your future wellness. I’m finallyyy excited to start sharing again and find some like minded friends who care about their health and future health and not accepting that aging = disease and pain.
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If you’re under 40, you might not know know what I’m talking about, but you will! 😉 If you don’t start making some changes now… by @jaimeparke

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