The Southern Travel Blog

Free Apps for Disney!

Disney apps for mobile phones are pretty common now at a variety of price points starting at, well, free.

A quick review of the Apple App Store shows the most expensive ones to be around $4.99. Either way a Disney app is not a tremendous investment. While we’ve not had the chance to use one yet, some friends of ours came back from a trip to Disney World last month raving about the free app, My Disney Experience for Disney World. This is an official app from the folks at Disney World. [Read more…]

Relax on any Budget

By Mark

Mark and the Kids on a Coastal Carolinas’ Beach

By Mark

I have a friend who works as a public information officer for a community college in North Carolina. He is also a career journalist.

He claims that I am one of the 7 people left in the United States who still reads hard copy newspapers and who actually subscribes to multiple papers (Jennifer and I subscribe to exactly 3 papers – two locals and the Wall Street Journal).

The Wall Street Journal always has some interesting articles on travel. These articles are often aimed at top tier U.S. earners. At least a portion of the Wall Street Journal’s target audience undoubtedly are high-level finance executives who make a great deal of money each year. [Read more…]

How Travel has Changed

By Mark

Mark & Jenn on the Great Wall of China, Jan. 2001

We both graduated high school in the second half of the 1980s.

While many of our peers did travel regularly, most of that travel included trips to the beach during the summer, with an occasional study abroad trip to England or France. Jennifer took one of those during high school, but Mark waited until College and took a rather unusual study abroad trip through what was then still the Soviet Union, Mongolia, China, and Hong Kong (then still a territory of Great Britian). [Read more…]

3 Great Reasons to Visit Beaufort, North Carolina

By Mark

The coastal destinations of North and South Carolina are one of our specialties at Southern Girl Travel.

We refer to these areas simply as Coastal Carolinas.

From Corolla in the north to Hilton Head in the south, the coast of North and South Carolina has an incredible climate, and with a few exceptions just the right balance of development and isolation. On the southern end of things we’ll occasionally claim Savannah, GA as part of Coastal Carolinas, too.

Near the center of the North Carolina coast is a small town named Beaufort. [Read more…]

8 Simple Ways to Relax with Your Family at Disney World!

By Mark

Mark, Jennifer, and the kids at Disney World

Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL is home to so many sites and experiences that a visitor can come home from a week at Disney in need of yet another week off to recover from the trip. Disney can be loads of fun for a single traveler, adult couple, or group of friends, but it seems that families with younger children really experience that Disney magic in a very special way.

But with children in tow, that magic can get just a bit hectic if you’re not careful.

Really, it can be exceedingly hectic visiting Disney – all the kids, the crowds, the logistics of getting from one place to another!

It doesn’t have to be that way.

A trip to Disney with the family can, and should, be an amazingly relaxing vacation. And that’s my goal with Southern Girl Travel, with our Disney vacations, and all of our trips, to help you, our clients, relax and enjoy leisure. After all, what’s our real aim in life, if not to enjoy leisure?

Following our 8 Simple Ways to Relax with Your Family at Disney World is a great place to start! [Read more…]

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