Hi y’alls, and Happy New Year! Yeah… I’m fashionably late for 2014. I was all excited to regale you with One Thousand and One Nights-style tales from Morocco, but my anal-retentiveness refused to let me post anything for 2014 without formally wrapping up last year’s adventures. Mine is a militant and unforgiving super-ego. So I hit […]
**Check out my guest post Exploring Iceland’s Golden Circle over at The Travel Wench! (All the cool kids are doing it, so you might as well… ) If you haven’t yet visited, The Travel Wench is an amazing travel blog chronicling the wanderlust of the aforementioned, highly entertaining “wench.” Go forth!** Day #9,996: The Galapagos […]
No matter the place or purpose, string lights invariably make me think of the holidays. My very favorite holiday lights were discovered in a Christmas market on an extra-long layover in London last Christmas. Cities across Western Europe are rife with Christmas markets like Winter Wonderland. They’re a festive alternative to the drudgery of mall […]
During this most recent trip back to New York, I didn’t manage to see the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. I never saw a single holiday window display, and I didn’t go ice skating in Central Park. Frankly, I never even went to Central Park. Sacrilege, I know. I love New York around the holidays, […]
Revisiting New York City has allowed me to curate my favorite Manhattan people, places, and food into one splendid week. It’s always gratifying returning to old favorites, but darn if there wasn’t one glaring never-made-it-happen left on my NYC To Do List. Day #11,556: It was a last-minute decision. (And the obsessive planner in me […]
I know, I know- this looks like a ghastly choice for a photo challenge. It lacks any visual interest whatsoever. Frankly, it’s just plain boring. But not everything is so clear-cut black and white. This is a photo I took on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa. I was in […]
If you’ve been following my Twitter feed as of late, you might know that I’m currently in frosty NYC! To be honest, I wasn’t sure how it would feel to be back in my newly-made-old hometown. Would we slo-mo run towards one another across a field of wildflowers while “Chariots of Fire” played in the […]
With Thanksgiving fast receding in the rear view mirror, it’s time to start making your lists and checking them twice! Holiday-loving little elf that I am, I assembled a few ideas for the adventuring-types on your Nice List. If I can keep just one Pandora charm bracelet off the streets (shudder)… then my job here […]
Time for a new tradition, says me! Enjoying other people’s photos is perhaps my favorite part of reading my favorite blogs. Each photo permits me a little window into a different life. Kind of like travel, no? Hence my new series: “Window Into…” Each week I’ll feature one photo centered around a theme and offer […]
A bold assertion, I know. But in a city of 3.8 million, any place this inexcusably unexplored deserves a little ‘bold.’ And, like many good things, it was discovered by bike. Day #11, 547: One of the highlights of our new home is its location near The Strand, a pedestrian and bike path that hugs […]