How they Saved the Old Growth Tall Trees of Congaree National Park. Congaree National Park evolved out of the environmental movement of the 1970s. The land in this area of South Carolina is a forest floodplain regularly flooded throughout the year from rains that overflow the Congaree and Wateree Rivers. The indigenous native Americans died…
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#FindYourPark National Park Service Centennial 1916-2016
This is day six and the last day of my Orlando to Knoxville road trip, and only the second time I have posted to Loyalty Traveler since driving out of Florida last week. Every morning I wake up feeling my head wants another two hours sleep. Then, the thought keeps me awake that getting to…
Free press trips for travel bloggers

Your dream of traveling the world for free with complimentary hotel nights and meals and even massages is truly within reach, if you have social media reach. As someone who has attended several TBEX travel blogger exchange conferences and IPW U.S. Travel Association conferences in the past five years, one of the most common questions…
Budget Travel Trifecta: Spirit flights, IHG hotels and Florida one way rental car deals
This post is a road trip itinerary I pieced together combining IHG PointBreaks hotels with the ‘drive out of Florida’ cheap rental car deals of $15 to $20 per day after tax and fees. My idea is routing a road trip to take advantage of IHG PointBreaks hotels available for 5,000 points per night through…
Road Trip to DoubleTree Atlantic Beach North Carolina and Ocracoke Island
Driving north on U.S. 17 over the North Carolina state line, I forgot about snapping a photo of the welcome sign until it was too late. The hour was getting late after detouring off the main route to drive around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and along a slow moving Business 17 on a busy Thursday…
Red wolves, alligators, dolphin and birds at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge South Carolina
Outside of Charleston, South Carolina about 25 miles northeast of the city, I saw a road sign on Highway 17 for the Sewee Environmental Education Center. In a split second decision, I hit the brakes of my rental car and exited to investigate another section of the South Carolina Lowlands in my quest to find…