Warsaw is a city with clout. When I mentioned our plans to visit the Polish capital, people seemed excited about Warsaw but couldn’t quite put a finger on why. I myself couldn’t dredge up much Varsovian history beyond the city’s devastation in World War II and a vague notion of the Warsaw Pact (a very vague notion, as it […]
*Everyone* packs a book when they head out of town. (Or an e-reader, if you’re one of those who smirk when I insist that the most divinely intoxicatingly aspect of reading is that almondy scent of inked paper. Y’all don’t know.) If you promise not to laugh, I’ll share a secret. One of my bestest travel reads of […]
Friends! Comrades! (Since it’s been awhile, I’m not sure if we’re still on friendly terms, or if I should go formal… I thoughtfully offered y’all two forms of address so no one feels left out.) Sadly, a bitchy SD card wedged itself in my Samsung tablet a mere week into the 90-day Round the World trip […]
Days #12,132-33 (Prague, Czech Republic): Once upon a time, in a land far, far away… (let’s call it the Czech Republic, shall we?)… there was a magical, storybook city called Prague. So magical, in fact, that visitors came from far and wide to experience the architectural wonders of the city for themselves. They flocked to the kingdom […]
Friends. We have some catching up to do. First of all… I gave the website a surprise instaglam makeover, and dare I say it, she be Hot. It took me forever+a day because I am not a web developer. Happily, no one told me this before I haphazardly began slashing & burning CSS code, redesigning the website in much […]
Day #11,874 (Athens, Greece): I’m traveling in Athens a little differently than I normally travel. I’m here in Athens by myself… except that I’m not by myself. I’m really not by myself. I’m with 800 other travel bloggers who, in the name of the TBEX travel media conference, have invaded Athens like the Ottomans of […]
Konnichiwa from Japan! Or, more accurately, konnichiwa from Southern California, which presently feels a lot like Japan, as I’m elbow-deep in 1500+ pictures from recent travels. Judging from said 1500 photos, Mr. M & I ravaged the food stalls of Japan like a half-starved Godzilla tag team. One of the varieties of Japanese cuisine that we sampled was kaiseki… […]
If my recent face-stuffing trawl through Austin taught me anything, it was that food and travel go hand-in-hand. Despite the havoc it wreaks on my waistline, eating my way through a new place is one of my favorite means of exploration. To eat the local foods is to peel back layers of culture and tradition and history. […]
Planning my upcoming trip to Japan has required much more research than I usually do. I’m excited to get swept away by the dazzlingly unfamiliar, but I don’t want to get so swept away that I inadvertently miss experiencing things that can only Japan has on tap. It started when I out-of-the-blue remembered the existence of […]
Like the librarian-type who shakes out her bun in slo-mo (she’s been hot all along?!), my blog’s “Where I’m Headed” sidebar suddenly got a lot more interesting. Mr. M & I are headed on an Asian adventure next month! (Clearly, I can’t tease out a sexy librarian slo-mo reveal. I’m weak.) Japan has been waiting […]