🫣 Behind the scenes lately...

Happy Monday, Reader

First off, thank you to everyone who did not email me to let me know I had a typo in my last email – I said it was Wednesday when it was Monday (#mombrain 🤪)

Secondly, how was your weekend? Mine was good! Mr. V is doing a sailing class so Baby V and I hung out just the two of us all weekend. We had a few nice walks and got a lot of house chores done. It was very domestic 😅 I'm already ramping up for our Alaska cruise in a few weeks though...

Two more things I want to cover today:

I learned a bit more about the Ultimate Explorer competition I shared last week (click here to vote for me today!). Instead of bombarding this email with updates every Monday, I decided to create a page on my site where I can post longer updates – then just share that link. Here's the link, if you want to read the latest update!
Google strikes again! It looks like Google has released more updates to make it even harder to find my site when you search for the topics I cover... 💀 If you're as unhappy with Google as I am*, please consider switching to a different search engine; I've been loving Duck Duck Go, and it doesn't track your search history! (*I've heard search results suck lately too, so there's lots of reasons to switch!)

As mentioned, our Alaska cruise is coming up quickly; we leave in about 2.5 weeks. On this cruise, we'll be visiting Anchorage (briefly), Seward, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Strait Point, and Ketchikan; I'm excited to be back in Alaska for the first time in more than a year!

I'll wrap it up here, and get back to work. See you next Monday ✌️

Until then, stay well and safe travels!

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