Flying High Over the Bay Area
Kristin has a habit of choosing gifts for me that border on prescient. I grew up dreaming of the skies… [more]
Photo Friday: Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
I've spent the last couple days in Guatemala and Nicaragua, and it's shocking to me how much my brief… [more]
A Day in the Life: An Underwater Videographer
Ever since stumbling upon Alex's blog a year ago, I've been enamored with her. She dedicated herself… [more]
Photo Friday: San Diego, California
I’ve been positively giddy since arriving in San Diego on Wednesday night for the Enrichment Voyage… [more]
Sailing Away … Again!
Hello from San Diego! I arrived last night, hit the town with a few of my Semester at Sea student buds… [more]
Semester at Sea: By the Numbers
Everyone loves a good recap post, right? It seems only fitting that the end of my Semester at Sea coverage… [more]
Girl Power in Savannah
There was a reason I headed to Savannah in March. Not just because the honey is fabulous, the ice cream… [more]
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Photo Friday: Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming
When we were on our 5,800-mile, 13-state Western road trip last year, one of the biggest expenses we incurred---gas aside---was park admission. It's not cheap if you're visiting a different place every other day. Which is why National Park Week is … [Read More...]
Photo Friday: New York, New York
When I went to New York City this past weekend, I traveled light: no laptop, no photography gear, just my tiny rolling suitcase and me. Thus, this is the first Photo Friday shot exclusively with my iPhone (using either the regular ol' camera app or … [Read More...]
Photo Friday: Grayton Beach, Florida
I've been decidedly vague about where exactly we stayed while in Florida on Spring Break last month. Sometimes, you just want to keep places a secret for yourself, you know? What I will say is that it was just a couple miles from Grayton Beach, so we … [Read More...]
Photo Friday: Chattanooga, Tennessee
I grew up just an hour north of Chattanooga but my trips down that way were usually reserved for soccer games and tennis training (my coach lived there). Up until writing my Tennessee book two years ago, I hadn't really played tourist---not in two … [Read More...]
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Gaga for Geysers in Yellowstone
After two nights at the Canyon Village campground, we hooked up the trailer and drove 16 miles south to Fishing Bridge RV Park. This was "true" camping: You could only camp in hard-sided trailers (meaning we couldn't pop out the beds), and absolutely … [Read More...]
Home on the Range
We're sleeping in the trailer about 95 percent of this trip. It's so comfortable, we don't really need stints in hotel rooms to break up six weeks of camping (if you can even call sleeping in a pop-out bed in a trailer "camping"). However, there are … [Read More...]
Getting “Lost” on Oahu
I had so much going on before I left for Hawaii---three feature stories that exceeded 3,000 words (one for Redbook, two for Southwest Airlines' Spirit magazine), plus a number of smaller assignments---that I didn't do a lot of research for our trip … [Read More...]
Polar Dip
Sometimes, I'm a little crazy. But then you knew that already; that's why you keep coming back time and time again, right? However, this story has less to do with me being crazy (OK, maybe a little to do with me being crazy) and more to do with my … [Read More...]
