Savvy Traveler Tip #2: If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn’t, don’t! Taking the right shoes on a trip will turn your “aaaaawwwww!” moments into “aaaahhhhh” moments. Few things are worse than blistered, tired, achy feet when your mission in travel is to “go, go, go!” When you are traveling for a good pair of travel shoes, whatever you do, don’t settle! “Good enough” is not good enough!
Here are two of our top-rated Summer travel sandal recommendations in travel shoes:
Seawalk Sandals
Seaside Gold Sandal by Orthaheel
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Tucano Finatex Messenger Bag
Avid travelers that we are, we are always in search of the perfect day bag. Tucano makes a sturdy, stylish crossbody bag that has become a preferred travel bag here at Best Of The Best. It makes getting organized easy! This bag has 3 compartments. We use the outer compartment to store our wallet, business cards, brush/comb, and other essentials. We use the second compartment to carry our travel guide, journal, and/or small netbook computer. The third compartment, an interior pocket, is perfect for carrying our itinerary and plane tickets. Its sleek, sophisticated, unadorned design lends to use by both male and female travelers. We tried the Finatex Multimedia Vertical Messenger bag in Coffee. You can find it
here at
Tucanousa.com.
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East Coast Co Bag at CVS
Cute, stylish, and simply chic, if you are looking for a bargain beach bag, CVS is the place. Through the years, we have found colorful, spacious quilted totes that make great beach bags, travel bags, and diaper bags. These bags are made by A.D. Sutton & Sons and priced at $14.99. What a deal! You can find these great bags at your local CVS store.
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Homedics offers a line of therapeutic massage products. We have tried several. Our favorite two Homedics products are the portable massage chair and the foot massager.
Delux Shiatsu Massaging Cushion
The Homedics Deluxe Shiatsu Massage Cushion works best in a straight-backed chair. It has massage balls, heat, and vibration. This multi-function massager is operated by a remote control that is attached to the chair. You can select upper, lower, or full–backed range. We find it is especially helpful for therapeutically applying mechanized pressure to concentrated areas of tension. The portable massage chair can pinpoint those tension areas via remote in order to soothe the specific location you need. One of our reviewers has a tendency to tense up their shoulders and finds the Homedics chair to alleviate tension. This is a favorite for our male reviewers. You can find it
here.
Shiatsu Foot Massager
The Homedics foot massager is a favorite among our female reviewers. This massager contains revolving balls that create a gentle, kneading motion on our feet. You can find this massager
here. Make note: these products took some time to grow on us. Initially, we were put off by the fact that no matter how much we wanted them to feel like a masseuse, only real masseuses can meet that standard. This is one area where you just can’t substitute a machine for a person, no matter how hard you try. That being said, Homedics makes some of the best mechanical, electrical massage products on the market for everyday household use. You can find these wonderful massagers and more at
www.homedics.com.
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Mesh Cubes Magellans
Love to travel? Hate to pack? We’ve found a great solution: travel cubes. Travel cubes are rectangular, mesh organizers. They are sturdy, yet flexible. We use them to carry an assortment of items, both in travel and every day transit, too! For example, when you are packing your suitcase, you can use one packing cube for all of your toiletries, undergarments, etc. and another for your socks, another for your shirts, another for your pants, etc. Rather than finding yourself in the endless search for one item, you simply pull out these lightweight but sturdy mesh containers and you have everything you need at your fingertips in a compact, mess-proof container! We even use the smaller sizes to store all papers in our glove compartments in our vehicles. Part of the joy of traveling is being well-organized. Travel cubes really help you do that! We recommend Magellan’s Mesh Cubes. You can find them
here. You can find travel cubes and more at
www.magellans.com.
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World Adapter Set
Traveling overseas? Traveling to Europe or Asia? Traveling around the world? Here’s a tip of the week for you! Most electrical outlets outside of the U.S. are not compatible to ours. Don’t wait to arrive at your destination only to find out that none of your electrical devices will work because you don’t have the correct electrical converter. Carrying a multi-adapter kit provides an easy, efficient solution to this problem. Magellans carries one of the best we have seen. The World Adapter Set is a comprehensive collection of every outlet converter you could possibly need around the world, with a handy guide telling you which converter to use where, in a mesh bag with a drawstring closure. You can find it
here.
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Adjustable Travel Pillow by Grand Trunk
One of the main problems with travel is space. With airlines cracking down on luggage sizes and starting to charge for bags, space is at a premium. Therefore, we seek out travel space-savers. We recently discovered the travel pillow by Grand Trunk. The space-age material and design of this pillow allow it to be extremely compact for use and stowing. However, it is comfortably expandable, able to adjust to any size you need! You have to see it to believe it. We call it the “roly-poly pillow”. It reminds us of a roly-poly because in its stow position, it becomes a fairly small pillow, but when you loosen the drawstring, it becomes a great, comfortable pillow. It is truly lightweight, durable, and a great pillow for all kinds of travel and leisure, on a plane, bus, in the car, camping, hiking, and in your hammock. We gave this product and its company a 5-star rating. You can find this great pillow
here and more at
www.thetravelhammock.com.
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Mixing Bowls by Tramontina
As you know by now, we at Best Of The Best love to cook and prepare delicious meals for our families. One of the reasons we love cooking so much is that we have the proper tools to make it easy. Simply put, if you have the proper kitchen tools and utensils, you can prepare any dish from any recipe and enjoy it. We have tried a variety of mixing bowls,
One cooking item we cannot be without is our Stainless Steel Bowls from Tramontina. The stackable sizes make for easy storage, while at the same time, giving us the right size mixing bowl for any kind of preparation. Whether tuna salad, a casserole, or a two-layer cake, we have the right sized mixing bowl to make it easy on us. The high quality of Tramontina products assures us that we will have a good-quality set of mixing bowls for years to come that are easy to wash, easy to use, and easy to store. They certainly qualify as a Best Of The Best Top-Rated product, so we have awarded them with a “Top Rated Product 2010″ award. You can find these great bowls and more at www.Tramontinausa.com.
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9 Speed Hand Mixer with Storage Case
“Where are the beaters?” Have you ever said that? We found the perfect solution! Cuisinart makes a great, 9-speed hand mixer with a storage attachment. The storage case that holds all beater attachments in a compact storage case that attaches to the bottom of the mixer. Here’s a
link.
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We love Mexican food, whether at home or a great restaurant. One of the staples in Mexican cooking is the tortilla. The biggest challenge with tortillas is how to keep them warm. We have tried a variety of tortilla warmers. None were successful to our standards, until we found the Tortilla Warmer by Dexas. Simple, but quite effective, it solved the long-standing problem of how to keep our tortillas warm. It even blends in with festive table decor. The Tortilla Warmer is not a cheap styraforam warmers, it is restaurant-quality and easily accomodates tortillas of all sizes, whether small, large, or extra large. When we switch from Mexican to European cooking and go French, our warmer doubles as a crepe warmer. Having the right cooking utensils to make work easy helps keep the joy of preparing great food for families, friends, and co-workers and reduces stress in the kitchen. We are so glad we found the Tortilla Warmer. You can find this and other great products by Dexas at www.dexas.com.
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