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International Vacations | Travel

Passport to Paris 🇫🇷

By Mercedes Santana on December 26, 2024

I can’t believe I am saying this, but I went on my fifth trip to Paris this summer! This time, it was to work on a project for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, what a whirlwind. I came to the realization that it was time for a true Paris roundup with all my favorite recommendations […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Passport to San Francisco Food

By Mercedes Santana on August 13, 2023

San Francisco is a city known for its diverse and eclectic food scene. From classic seafood dishes at Fisherman’s Wharf to the famous sourdough bread, there is no shortage of delicious and unique eats to indulge in while visiting this hilly city. Recently we where in SF to help my brother in law propose to […]

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Passport to Tahiti | A Guide to 7 Nights in Moorea

By Mercedes Santana on January 22, 2023

The trip we’ve been dreaming of! We’ve always said Tahiti was high on our travel bucket list, but knew we wanted to save it for our honeymoon. Literally the day after reserving our wedding venue, we booked our honeymoon to Moorea! We opted to use Costco Travel! I know what you’re thinking — Costco has […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Passport to Santa Barbara

By Mercedes Santana on April 9, 2021

So, I am thinking I am going to start titling all my travel articles “Passport to…” Do we think that’s cute? I was thinking about my blog branding and how I could improve and I’m hoping that Passports & Papers still makes sense. If you’ve never read about the blog, it’s name, or me you […]

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International Vacations | Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

My Wanderlust Wish List

By Mercedes Santana on July 1, 2020
Santorini Sunset | Mercedes Santana Passports and Papers.com

I’ve always been obsessed with maps and learning more about the world. I’m still proud of the fact that I was the only second grader in my class to get 100% on the US maps test. After college Henri and I started planning an internal trip each year. First we went to Mexico, which I […]

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International Vacations | Travel

Delightful Italy Food Photos

By Mercedes Santana on April 28, 2020

If you needed another reason to add Italy to your travel list.

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International Vacations | Travel

3 Nights in Mykonos

By Mercedes Santana on November 4, 2019

Here is how we spent our 3 nights and 4 days in Mykonos Greece!

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2 Nights in Athens

By Mercedes Santana on August 11, 2019

The first leg of our 10 nights in Greece started in none other than the capital city of Athens. Day One We flew from LAX to Athens, with a quick layover in Paris on AirFrance. After a long travel day we landed in a very hot Athens. Europe had been having unusually warm weather. Most […]

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Happy One Year Anniversary Passports and Papers!

By Mercedes Santana on February 11, 2019
Mercedes in Cuba; Passports and Papers

I can’t believe a year has flown by so quickly! It feels like yesterday that I was toying with the idea of finally taking the leap to blogging. Now I’m about to humble brag because I am really freakin proud of this site. I built this entire site myself. Customized the modules, wrote the content, […]

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International Vacations | Travel

Video: Thailand’s Beautiful Beaches as Told by Our GoPro

By Mercedes Santana on June 5, 2018

I am so excited I finally got around to going thru our GoPro footage. This is just from the beaches, I still have more to share especially from our day with the elephants in Chaing Mai. Also, editing in the GoPro Quik app is so…well quick! Enjoy a minute of our trip.  Would you […]

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