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4 hours in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷

4 hours in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷

Welcome to travel + explore & play with Sallee Jay, where I am your host. 👋🏾💓‼️ It’s been a while since I’ve traveled international, so I had to make sure this trip hit a few destinations because WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!

On a more serious note, this trip was more than I could have ever imagined. I’m extremely grateful for the experience and as more of the story unfolds, I hope that your heart is equally delighted in the experience too! Follow along as I share trip details including — family first’s, healing, restoration and great adventures!

The story begins in America as I prepared to leave for the airport…

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#TBT Meeting Erykah Badu and the Lost Rental Car.

#TBT Meeting Erykah Badu and the Lost Rental Car.

I know the title of this blog sounds like a festival lineup!

#TBT… back to 2008 🙃

Welcome to Travel + Explore & Play with Sallee Jay where I am your host. I am so very excited to share more trips with you all very soon, as my schedule is beginning to fill up with events. And thank you for your patience, while I took some time off from blogging 👩🏽‍💻 to accomplish some personal and professional goals.

TODAY is a throwback blog in which I detail one of my funniest travel experiences to date. It involves a trip to Dallas, Erykah Badu and lost rental vehicle… I stumbled upon this email that I sent to family and friends after the trip and was instantly taken back to that crazy weekend.

Link in bio. ✨

#ErykahBadu #TravelBlogger #TravelDiaries #ThrowbackThursday #ConcertSeries #travelgram

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The BIG 4-0!! Moab/Navajo Nation/Sedona Style

The BIG 4-0!! Moab/Navajo Nation/Sedona Style

Welcome to travel + explore & play with Sallee Jay, where I am your host. 👋🏾💓‼️

Lean in yall, I have a secret 🤫, I am whole 40 year old!!! 🥴😩👑😭🙌🏾❣️✨🤫🗣🌎🧘‍♂️💕💪🏽👏🏽

And for my birthday I went to travel + explore & play out in the middle of the desert 🌵.

I’ve always heard people describe their adventures to local travel destinations like Moab, the Grand Canyon and Sedona. With that in mind, I set out on a road trip with my besties to ultimately celebrate in Sedona, with a few stops in between.

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Girls Trip to Charming Charleston

Girls Trip to Charming Charleston

Like many of you, I could not wait for opportunities to reunite with family and friends as Covid restrictions began to be lifted across the country and I received my vaccination. So when my bestie called and said let’s go to Charleston, SC, we booked an Airbnb and prepared for an amazing week of girl time.

Welcome to travel ➕explore ➕play with Sallee Jay, where I am your host. 👋🏾💓‼️ Want to get the scoop on all things Charleston, keep reading!

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Virtual Field Trip and Scavenger Hunt: Japan: A History of Style - The Met Museum

Virtual Field Trip and Scavenger Hunt: Japan: A History of Style - The Met Museum

Hello and welcome to Travel + Explore + Play with Sallee Jay where I am your host. Today we are headed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art affectionately known as “The Met” in New York to view the exhibition “Japan: A History of Style.”


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