I’m on my final day of a two-week trip through Norway, and while I’m sad to leave such a stunning natural landscape, I’m happy I got the opportunity to cover so much ground in this massive country. One of my biggest regrets while living in Denmark was never making it to up here—simply put, it [...]
M.I.A.
July 29, 2009 By 18 Comments
It’s not you, it’s me. No really. I needed a bit of a break from all things non-Twitter-related (a girl can’t be expected to go completely cold turkey, now can she?). And I know, I know, you all think all I do is vacation. Rrrright. But that’s neither here nor there. Post-work trip to the [...]
Guest Post Alert! Win a Free Volunteer Vacation
July 27, 2009 By 6 Comments
While I’m off frolicking with polar bears in the Arctic Circle, Travelocity writer/editor Alison Presley offered to fill my shoes and share her recent volunteer vacation to Peru. Visit her blog and my favorite source for travel information, The Window Seat, where along with the rest of the Travelocity team, she shares comprehensive travel tips [...]
Photo Friday: Charleston, South Carolina
July 24, 2009 By 17 Comments
En route from Orlando to Tennessee—or erm, you know, not at all on the way between the two points—we veered off course to my favorite Southern city, Charleston, to catch up with Jemima, Simons and Beulah, three of our former San Francisco pals, who recently went back to their roots. Lucky for us, they were [...]
Sometimes I Meet Celebrities on Planes
July 21, 2009 By 27 Comments
After a final rally our last night in Berlin, in which most of us stayed out nearly until it was time to cab it to the airport, we were all lagging. To put it mildly. Out of the group of seven, only three of us continued on from Berlin to Dusseldorf to NYC. While making [...]
Photo Friday: Las Vegas, Nevada
July 17, 2009 By 36 Comments
SVV turned 35 two weeks ago. Every birthday, I try to give him an “experience” instead of a concrete gift. Two years ago when I was still in New York, we did Wine Country. Last year, it was Seattle. This year…Vegas! I didn’t tell him where we were going until we got to the Virgin [...]
Orlando, Adult-Style
July 15, 2009 By 22 Comments
When I told friends and other bloggers in Florida I was going to Orlando for one reason and one reason alone—to do the parks—they reacted like I had just said I was going to cut off seven fingers then take up playing the violin just because. Who, over the age of 12 actually enjoys the [...]
Sky Walking in Auckland
July 13, 2009 By 31 Comments
You thought you’d heard the last of my amazing trip to New Zealand, huh? Well, you thought wrong! There’s one final adventure I failed to rehash, perhaps because it took me until now to replay it in my mind, it scared the bejeezus out of me so. I only had 24 hours in Auckland, you [...]
Photo Friday: Helsinki, Finland
July 10, 2009 By 17 Comments
Before getting mowed down by a cab, I did have a few short hours to soak in Helsinki—quite literally. It didn’t stop pouring the entire time I was there. I did thank my lucky stars, for once, I decided to throw my rain jacket in my carry-on last minute. But jacket or not, the wet [...]
Oh Right, About that Wedding
July 8, 2009 By 50 Comments
Disclaimer: I promise, under no circumstances, will this become a wedding blog. I know many of you come here, first and foremost, to see pictures of pretty exotic places and for a temporary escape from your cubicle jobs. Also, I’m going at this blindly—I have to say, I never really thought I’d get married and, [...]
