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The Ultimate Guide to Speakeasies: Hidden Bars, Ratings & Reviews
As our list of speakeasies grows, we needed a way to track, rate and compare them. So we came up with a scale and tried to make it as objective as possible. It isn’t perfect but it is pretty solid. **It is important to note that the rating is not an indication of how much we enjoyed each speakeasy. Some…
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Kansas City Speakeasy Guide
When most people think of speakeasies they think of New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. The trendy, big cities with hopping nighttime vibes and a prohibition history. I’m pretty sure you don’t think of Kansas City. But as we found out on our first trip, Kansas City has deep prohibition roots. During the prohibition era, Kansas City was…
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I Did 50 New Things Before My 50th Birthday
A 50th Birthday deserves more than a trip or a party. Why not celebrate by accomplishing 50 new things in 50 weeks? This crazy idea started out on my 49th birthday…we were on our self-created pub tour in London, the last night of what had been an incredible family trip across the pond to see our beloved Seahawks play the…
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Cartagena: The Best Bar Guide for Tourists
I’ll admit, the morning after our evening of drinking in Cartagena I woke up so excited to write this one. We absolutely loved Cartagena, and the bars we experienced were so unique and fun. We had a local tour guide to do a historic walking tour and a food tour of Cartagena. Mostly inside the Old Walled City, so we…
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Our Best of 2024 Travel Awards and Wrap-Up
We hope you enjoy the highlights and travel awards in our Best of 2024 year end wrap-up. Looking forward to more sisbehaving and shenanigans in 2025! 2024 started out slow but ended strong! We didn’t see each other until May, possibly a record…a sad record, but after that, we saw each other almost every month. There were some big trips…
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Helpful Things To Know Before Visiting Colombia
Colombia NOT Columbia Duh. Start with the fact you found this post, so you already know it’s Colombia, not Columbia. But, you will see T-shirts at all the souvenir stands to remind you. We didn’t know that people didn’t know but, maybe it’s a thing? Also, we are apologizing for improper accenting and anglicized spelling throughout this blog. Tips for…
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Las Vegas Speakeasy Guide – Gambling on the Secret Drinking Scene
Updated September 2024 plus a Table of Contents! Your favorite sisters are in their element when surrounded by fantastic opportunities for creating our own Las Vegas speakeasy tour. Vegas is an obvious choice when posed with the question, “Where should we go for great drinking options?”. We are dutifully bringing you our Las Vegas Speakeasy recommendations in this post; we…
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Chicago Speakeasy Guide – Secrets of the Prohibition Icon
Bucket List Item 2024: See Stevie Nicks in concert. Oooh, what’s that? Stevie Nicks is opening for Billy Joel in Chicago in June? Well, I guess we are going to Chicago. What else should we do there? How about we visit a few Speakeasies? What? Speakeasy? Well, I suppose it is for research purposes. You should know our Speakeasy Guides…
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Santa Fe – Day Drinking in this Charming Southwestern City
Sometimes life just isn’t going your way, and you need to step back and re-evaluate things. That’s exactly what I was doing: isolating and recovering from life at my sister’s. And that’s when she said, “Why don’t we just go to Santa Fe for the weekend?” Now, I have never been to Santa Fe. I’ve never been to New Mexico,…
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Reno – Biggest Little (Day Drinking) City in the World
Road Trip, Reno and Rod Stewart…Epic plan, right? Yeah, this was one of those “out-there” ideas we came up with, that turned into a fantastic reality. We decided we needed to see Rod Stewart in concert before there were no more chances left. And sure, he was playing in Seattle and Denver (near where we each live), but why would…
