Dual Compass Travel

Dual Compass Travel We’re Kim & Patrick, a husband-wife travel team helping families, couples, & groups plan unforgettable getaways. Let’s start planning! 🧭🌎

From Disney magic & national park adventures to all-inclusive escapes & journeys abroad, we make travel easy & fun.

05/16/2026

⚓️ 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒕 ⚓️✨

🚢 7-Night Caribbean Cruise 🌴

Royal Caribbean | Rhapsody of the Seas
📅 September 26 - October 3, 2026
📍 Roundtrip San Juan, Puerto Rico

✨ Ports of Call
🇵🇷 San Juan, PR
🇻🇬 Tortola, British Virgin Islands
🇸🇽 Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
🇦🇬 St. John’s, Antigua
🇻🇮 St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
🌊 Day at Sea
⚓️ Return to San Juan

💵 Pricing (2 adults / stateroom)
• Interior: Starting at $1,018 ($509/ person)
• Ocean View: Starting $1,032 ($516/ person)
• Balcony: Starting at $1,994 ($997/ person)

💳 Deposit: $500

✅ What’s included
🎭 Entertainment & shows
🍽️ All meals + snacks
☕ Coffee, tea, juice & milk
🛎️ Room service
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family/group onboard activities
🧒 Kids’ exclusive activities
🧖 Adults-only pool, spa & entertainment

📩 Ready to lock in your Caribbean escape?
Message Dual Compass Travel to snag your stateroom before it sails away! ⚓️🌺

🎃 They’re here. The 2026 Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party dates have officially dropped — and we are not calm about...
04/29/2026

🎃 They’re here. The 2026 Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party dates have officially dropped — and we are not calm about it. 👻

If you’ve never been, let us paint the picture: Magic Kingdom after dark, decked out for Halloween. Costumes for children & adults. Candy everywhere. A parade led by the Headless Horseman. Fireworks and projections turning Cinderella Castle into a haunted mansion. Characters you can’t meet any other time of year. And ride wait times so short it almost feels like a trick. 🏰✨

We’ve been the last two years and can tell you firsthand — this is one of the most magical nights Walt Disney World has to offer, for kids and adults equally.

🎃 2026 Party Dates:
August: 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30
September: 1, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29
October: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 31

🎟️ Tickets go on sale May 5 for select Walt Disney World Resort hotel guests
🎟️ Tickets open to everyone on May 12

These dates will sell out! If a Halloween party night is on your radar, now is the time to start planning.

Message Dual Compass Travel and we’ll help you pick the right date and build a trip around it. 🕷️

Which month are you eyeing — August, September, or going all in for October? 👇

04/26/2026

🏁 We didn’t get a photo of Bobby Allison signing our hat — and it’s still one of our favorite Talladega memories. 🧢 We are completely ok with that - some moments are just meant to be lived.

In 2023, we added the Talladega Garage Experience to our race weekend, and it was one of the best things we’ve ever done at a NASCAR event. If you’ve ever wanted to feel like you truly belong inside a race weekend rather than just watching from the outside, this is how you do it.

Here’s what makes it unforgettable:

🔧 Garage access — walk through the garages as teams prep their cars

📺 Courtyard & Lounge — food, shade, big screens, and a place to recharge

🏁 On‑track access — stand on the start‑finish line and sign it

🎤 Pre‑race ceremonies — watch driver intros from the track

✨ And then there were Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, and Red Farmer — three legends of the sport, signed autographs right there. The Alabama Gang, at Talladega, the track that is practically their home. We got our hat signed and stood there grinning like kids.

Did we get a photo of that moment? We did not. We were too busy soaking it in. 😄

If Talladega is on your NASCAR bucket list — and it absolutely should be — we highly recommend adding the Garage Experience to your weekend. It takes a great race and turns it into something you will talk about for years.

Message Dual Compass Travel and let us help you plan your next race weekend. 🧭

04/19/2026

We were there the day Kurt Busch won his last NASCAR Cup race. We just didn’t know it yet. 🏁

🏎️ It was 2022 at Kansas Speedway. The year before, we had taken our kids who were still at home to their first race — and we loved every minute of it. But two of our boys were serving in the Air Force and couldn’t make that trip. That didn’t sit right with us.

So in 2022, we made it a mission. We found races close to each of their bases and made the drive. Our son Alex was stationed at Scott Air Force Base just outside St. Louis, so Kansas was our stop for him. Our son Jonathan was at Dover, so that one got its own trip too. ✈️🇺🇸

Kansas Speedway was unlike anything we had experienced up to that point. We had mostly been to short tracks — tight, loud, intimate. Kansas is a 1.5-mile oval, and the scale of everything hits you the moment you pull in. The parking lot alone felt like its own zip code, and getting into it took what felt like half the day. 😄

But once we were inside, the racing was fast, smooth, and electric. And at the end of the day, Kurt Busch took the win.
We had no idea it would be the last Cup win of his career. 🏆

Looking back, there is something really special about having been there for that moment — even without knowing what it meant at the time. That is one of the things we love most about going to races in person. You never quite know what you are going to witness.❤️

If a NASCAR race weekend is on your bucket list, we would love to help you plan it. Kansas is a great destination — easy access, a beautiful facility, and racing that does not disappoint. 🧭

Drop a 🏁 in the comments if you were at Kansas that day — or if Kurt Busch was one of your favorites.

We would like to congratulate Amanda Vaden on winning our Tunes & Tires Cruise-In prize pack! Thank you to everyone who ...
04/17/2026

We would like to congratulate Amanda Vaden on winning our Tunes & Tires Cruise-In prize pack! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and talked travel with us this evening! A great event sponsored by Un-Hitched with Bill & Willie Mobile Podcast.

Make sure to visit us at the Tunes & Tires Cruise-In at the Lawrence County Fairgrounds this evening (April 17th) from 5...
04/17/2026

Make sure to visit us at the Tunes & Tires Cruise-In at the Lawrence County Fairgrounds this evening (April 17th) from 5p - ? Lots of fun and entertainment for the whole family. We will be talking all things travel as well as doing some giveaways and a raffle, so make sure to stop by our booth and say hi!

🥃✨ Foodie Find #16: The Ohio Club — Hot Springs, ArkansasAl Capone, Babe Ruth, and Mae West all walked through the same...
04/16/2026

🥃✨ Foodie Find #16: The Ohio Club — Hot Springs, Arkansas

Al Capone, Babe Ruth, and Mae West all walked through the same door — and last summer, so did we. 🎰🃏

The Ohio Club is Arkansas’s oldest continuously running bar, open since 1905. It sits right across the street from Hot Springs National Park in an area that once hosted dozens of casinos and speakeasies during the mob’s heyday. Today, the Ohio Club is the last of its kind.

And it looks the part. ✨ The facade has ornate trim, vintage signage, and windows that could be straight off an old postcard. It almost looks like a charming old theater from another era.

Inside, the history only gets deeper.
🪵 A massive hand-carved mahogany bar from the late 1800s stretches across the room. It was found in Cincinnati, transported by boat down the Mississippi by River, moved by train, and delivered on a custom-built cart. The tables are made from old gaming equipment — roulette wheels, card tables — and the walls are covered in gambling and gangster memorabilia.

During Prohibition, they actually built a wall to hide the bar. 🤫 Before and after that, it operated as a casino — sometimes legal, sometimes not. Notorious gangsters like Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel were regulars. Babe Ruth visited during spring training. Performers like Al Jolson and Mae West took the stage. Even now, the Ohio Club still hosts live music in the evenings.

🍔 The food? Let’s keep it real. Patrick had a burger and fries, and I had the sliders and onion rings. Everything was good — solid and satisfying — but the food isn’t the main event here. The atmosphere is. Sitting upstairs, surrounded by more than a century of American history, the whole experience felt like stepping into a story.

🗺️ Here’s the best part — this stop was completely unplanned. We were driving from the NASCAR race in Indianapolis to Colorado for national parks, looked at the map, and decided to throw Hot Springs into the route. We only spent one night, barely had time to research, and ended up discovering one of the most unique and charming places we’ve ever visited.

🍺 Bonus: While in Hot Springs, we also stopped at the Superior Bathhouse Brewery, the only brewery in a national park. They make their root beer from actual hot spring water — and yes, we had to try it.

If you’re passing through Arkansas or looking for a stop that’s equal parts history, charm, and adventure, Hot Springs deserves a spot on your list. Save this post for your next road trip. 📲 Message Dual Compass Travel to help you build a trip full of moments like this one.

04/13/2026

From New River Gorge to Bristol Motor Speedway — this weekend had a little bit of everything 🏞️🏁

Saturday gave us sweeping overlooks, quiet trails, and those classic New River Gorge views that never get old.
Sunday flipped the script with the roar of engines at Bristol Motor Speedway — short‑track chaos, race‑day energy, and the kind of adrenaline you can feel in your chest.

A little nature, a little NASCAR, and a whole lot of memories. That’s our favorite kind of weekend!

Ready to plan a trip that mixes adventure with excitement? Let’s build it together.

04/13/2026

Ty Gibbs’ first NASCAR Cup Series win — and we got to watch the burnout at Bristol 🏁🔥

That was such a cool moment to see in person. First career Cup win, Bristol atmosphere, and a celebration like that to end the day.

Definitely one of those race moments that is fun to say we got to witness.

04/11/2026

There’s just nothing like Bristol 🏁

There’s just something different about Bristol. The enclosed stadium feel, the energy in the stands, the race itself… it always feels bigger, louder, and more intense in the best way.

It’s one of our favorite tracks for a reason. If you know, you know!

Who else loves Bristol race weekend?

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