Ever since I married my husband — engineer, outdoorsman, and overall pragmatist — I have to admit that I choose function over fashion when it comes to clothing. Sure, I clean up well when I need to, but first and foremost I’m about performance. But I’m here to let you in on a little secret: […]
Bioluminescent kayaking is straight out of a science fiction novel. The water illuminates when you dip your paddle in the bay while fish seem to glow in the dark. It’s such an odd and incredible experience that I’ve done it three times — and Mosquito Bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico is the best place to
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It’s probably not a coincidence that Naivasha was my favorite place in Kenya. After all, it was one of the few places where there are opportunities to stay active while simultaneously feeling like you’re on safari. Even if you love traditional game drives, there are still a lot of places to visit in Naivasha that
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Kenya was the most expensive trip I’ve ever taken. Even though it was worth every penny, I’m still crying a little over the final tally. I didn’t expect the cost of traveling to Kenya to be so high given how much shopping around I did on each component — but things added up every step
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I first published this post in 2014 when I had a winter full of chilly travel: Iceland, Spokane, and Quebec. It was fabulous and I didn’t let the cold bother me — so I added more cold destinations to my list in 2019 and tweaked my recommendations a bit. Here’s how to dress for cold weather
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There’s nothing quite like a good weekend getaway. Years ago, when I first moved to Virginia, I was gone three weekends a month. My husband and I took exploration seriously and our central geography meant we could take east coast getaways without much hassle. We thought nothing of driving four or five hours on a
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Just about everyone who goes to Kenya plans a safari to the Masai Mara. The wildlife sightings there are supposed to be awesome, but the seasons didn’t align for my own trip: it would be too rainy with high chances of road closures, not to mention the animals would either move out or hide in
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I went to a lot of places this year and I enjoyed visiting all of them. No surprise there — I love traveling and I’m (usually) pretty good at picking destinations I like. But how do they stack up? If I could only recommend a few, which ones would rise to the top? Well folks,
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I consider myself an expert travel planner — I travel so often (and to so many different places) that I’ve gotten good at googling for exactly what I need and boiling things down. In fact, I had a rough outline of what I wanted my Kenya safari to look like in a short amount of
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I impulse bought a flight to Kenya because it was a good deal. At the time, I didn’t think to factor in the yellow fever vaccine cost into the true cost of that trip — I was too busy dreaming of giraffes and lions. But no matter how much I budgeted, planned, and saved for
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