Dear Alabama, First off, I owe you an apology. All these years and I never looked your way– not even […]
Tag Archive for ‘travel bug’
Wonderful Wine Country Weekdays
Only an hour and twenty from San Fran, Healdsburg, California is everything I dreamed it to be and the next […]
San Francisco Days
Last week for Spring break, I surprised my fifteen-year-old daughter with a trip to Northern California. As Jordan enters […]
Journey to Auschwitz
I am clutching the seatback handles on a bus speeding through winding roads in eastern Europe. The bus is more […]
Banning Mills Adventure Weekend
Deep in the hills of Georgia, tucked away between the charming towns of Carrollton and Newnan, a death-defying adventure awaits […]
Colorado’s Rocky Mountain High- Hiking the Rockies
To paraphrase John Denver, Come home to a place you’ve never been. That’s exactly what taking that first step on […]
10 Ways To Know You’re Officially a St. Augustinian
You Run Towards The Gunfire. A reenactment of some sort is always happening- Changing of the Guard, Drakes Raid, just […]
Airbnb- A More Adventurous Way to Stay
Spending hundreds of nights on the road, you quickly learn to adjust and even sometimes crave the anonymity that comes […]
36 Hours in Firenze (Florence)
Thanks to historical flooding in Germany, getting to Florence was a last minute decision and required an overnight train ride […]
Pompeii
Imagine going about your daily life in the busy city when a nearby volcano erupts forcing you to either attempt […]
To My Independent Eccentric Artist Mother on her 75th Birthday
August 8th 1939, three quarters of a century ago today to be exact, my mother Joanie came into this world. […]
Amsterdam’s not so Wild Side
Originally Published in Old City Life Magazine
Paris in Pictures
Interlaken, Switzerland in Pictures
Saint Augustine Dream House
OK, so here it is…. My St. Augustine Dream House in all of its boarded up, broken down, pink glory. […]
A Summer in Europe
This summer I spent almost two months traveling around Europe with Jordan, my 10 year-old daughter. This was her first […]
Confessions of an Anxious Insomniac Trip Planner
In less than two weeks, I’ll be boarding a plane for Europe with my ten-year-old tiny travel bug, Jordan. I‘ve […]
The Biltmore & Chimney Rock NC- Photos
Eating My Way Through Asheville’s Amazing Restaurants
Asheville is a foodie’s paradise, a mecca for connoisseurs of farm-to-table fare with dishes prepared in ways that make you […]
Hiking the Smokies- What I hope to teach my daughter
It’s barely 8:00pm and the dark rainy October night has wrapped itself around me like a heavy wet blanket. […]
