I just returned last night from vacation with my family and a few friends on the Florida Panhandle. While we’ve traditionally stayed in Destin, we opted for a place in South Walton this time around. I have to say I prefer the quieter, serene environment to that of the overdeveloped landscape of its neighboring cities. [...]
A Sassy Stay in Savannah
March 21, 2012 By 32 Comments
After recent visits to full-service resorts and all the travel we did on Semester at Sea using hotel points at big chains, it was a nice change of pace to arrive in Savannah—the ultimate destination for bed and breakfasts—and check into the Azalea Inn & Gardens. It had been awhile since I’d stayed in a [...]
Photo Friday: Dades Gorges, Morocco
March 16, 2012 By 29 Comments
I don’t remember a whole lot about my first trip to Morocco. It was in 2005, I was living in Holland, and my friend Megan and I decided to go adventuring. In fact, I recall so little that I had to Google image where we’d been just to find out the names of places. So [...]
Semester at Sea: A Kid’s Perspective
March 14, 2012 By 20 Comments
It seems one of the things that people are most intrigued about the Semester at Sea experience is just exactly what the kids do. No not the 500-something college “kids,” but rather the dependent children, the ones who tag along with their parents who are deans or professors for the semester. We had 24 kids—”the [...]
Make Like an Obama in Vail
March 11, 2012 By 25 Comments
The worst part about working as a travel writer is that you never stay in one hotel long. The best part of working as a travel writer is that you get to sample le creme de la creme in hotels (and dining and attractions and more) all in the sake of editorial research. Which is [...]
Photo Friday: Savannah, Georgia
March 9, 2012 By 60 Comments
If you ask me (and I’m pretty sure you did), Savannah is the most charming city in the United States. It’s one of those fairytale-like towns that I think “people actually get to live here?!” In another time or place, I’m pretty sure I would have been one of those people. I returned last night [...]
Friendship and Wanderlust
March 7, 2012 By 37 Comments
The best part about being even marginally nomadic is that there’s a good chance (some of) your friends also possess that flaw maintain that same lifestyle of drifting. In San Francisco, I often received emails/Facebook messages/Tweets from friends out of the blue saying they were passing through my city. This meant I was constantly welcoming [...]
Photo Friday: Iby’Iwacu, Rwanda
March 2, 2012 By 43 Comments
While preparing for my photo presentation for BlissDom last week, I’ve began the laborious task of culling through tens of thousands of photos I don’t even remember taking over the past two years, when I stumbled upon a set taken in Rwanda when I visited back in 2010. The beginning of my trip to Rwanda [...]
Apres Ski in Vail
March 1, 2012 By 21 Comments
After we were done skiing Vail Mountain for the day, we grabbed hot chocolate (and a cookie for me) at the concierge center then headed back to our hotel. After all, in my opinion, some of the best parts of a ski trip don’t always take place on the slopes. The Four Seasons Vail [...]
