If you invested in an all inclusive vacation this year, make sure you are healthy for it.

There are serious flu and norovirus outbreaks going around.

Use liberal amounts of hand sanitizer at work and around the home.

You really don't want to get sick!

It is bad enough just being sick, but going to the airport for a dream vacation while sick would be terrible.

I can't even think about cancelling a dream…

I should probably start a diary to figure out how much time I spend on travel research.

I really enjoy doing it and I do it all the time.

A friend told me I could save time by just contacting a travel agent.

That was a very good idea.  I found some great resorts and a good deal I hadn't seen before.

I think I still did the same amount of online research.  The travel agent gave me new paces and ideas to research.  Any…

Dear Hard Rock Resorts,

Please have great bands come to your new all inclusive resorts.

It would be awesome to lounge in an all inclusive resort all day and then see a great well known band at night.  My friends go on cruises all the time where they see the bands hanging out all day and then see them put on great shows each night.

Themed weekends would be even better.  I would arrange my schedule to be at your resort if you had a weekend with…

My name is Lea.  I might be a travel addict. 

I've always loved to travel, but now it is getting to the addiction level.

Hours have been spent with increasing amounts of travel videos, pictures, review sites, etc.... 

I'm neglecting other duties.

If someone asked me what my favorite thing to do is, I would have to admit that I enjoy sitting on the computer doing travel research.

Being a detail freak doesn't…

Friends of mine are going on an all inclusive tour of Costa Rica.

They get all meals, rooms, transportation, but not alcohol. 

The tour company is Caravan, I think.

It sounds like a great way to see a country as big and diverse as Costa Rica.  They fly into the mountainous capitol of San Jose and the tour cloud forests, hot springs, both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, etc...  Their tour doesn't take them as far south as Manuel Antonio…