While I had a blast at Snowcial in Tahoe last month, I’m still dreaming of days spent tearing down the slopes as my time on skis was limited this past trip. We hoped to hit up Park City this winter—a ski fantasy that will be shelved until next season what with our relocation, SVV’s new [...]
Photo Friday: Newport, Rhode Island
January 27, 2012 By 28 Comments
On the last day of our whirlwind tour of New England last summer, we drove the hour from Providence down to Newport. I’d done the same thing about six years earlier while living in New York and visiting a friend in Rhode Island, but SVV and several others in our group had never seen the [...]
You Don’t Know Jack
December 26, 2011 By 24 Comments
There are two things for which the area I’m from in Tennessee is universally known: Jack Daniel’s and Bonnaroo. However, just five miles down the road from my actual home is the man more revered in my house than Jack himself: George Dickel. And up until last week, I had never stepped foot on the [...]
Photo Friday: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
October 7, 2011 By 22 Comments
Back in July after we left Cape Cod, we continued down the coast and used Providence, Rhode Island as our base for the last two nights of our New England vacation. Only we did zero exploring of Providence and, the next morning, made straight for the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard—after nearly missing it, that is, [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
September 23, 2011 By 28 Comments
When I lived in New York, I had many friends from New England who would talk about summering in the Hamptons or Cape Cod, a concept completely foreign to me, as most Southerners I know make for the Florida Panhandle when the beach comes calling. When SVV and I were in Boston with my parents [...]
Photo Friday: Boston, Massachusetts
September 2, 2011 By 27 Comments
Boston is one of my favorite American cities, and I got the chance to visit not once, but twice in the past month—first with my family after our Montreal to Boston cruise, and then with just my husband after we did the reverse route as the first leg of Semester at Sea. Since SVV and [...]
Photo Friday: Montreal, Canada
August 26, 2011 By 36 Comments
Montreal is one of those cities that is pretty darn impossible not to like. I visited for the first time in 2007, found myself there on family vacation for the first couple days in July and—funny enough—am back right now, currently signing in 450 college students (and 73 lifelong learners) so we can set sail [...]
Photo Friday: Meteor Crater, Arizona
August 19, 2011 By 31 Comments
After our Hotel Monte Vista letdown, we hightailed it out of Flagstaff without so much as seeing the Grand Canyon. When the landscape started to flatten out, SVV turned to me and said: “I wonder if this is where that big crater impact took place?” Huh? I clearly missed mention of that in science class! [...]
