For the first time ever, I’ve gone somewhere without actually seeing the city. I’m guessing some business travelers may be used to this feeling, but as a leisure traveler, it’s a first for me. I spent five nights at the Courtyard Marriott Portland City Center, which has a really convenient location for seeing Portland (Oregon), […]
I’m always looking for great weekend getaways, and I’ve got a stockpile of bookmarked websites for inspiration. Often, these bookmarks get buried under more recent findings, but I brushed off my plans for Fallingwater after I saw Travel Bug Diary mention it in her 2012 travel highlights. The trip started to piece itself together further
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If you’re used to redeeming hotel points, it can get easy to fall into a trap of expecting luxury in every stay. But what happens when you no longer have the points or cash to fund that type of travel? I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. In all seriousness, I knew exactly what I
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I loved learning more about Memphis’ music and pop culture, but no matter how much fun I was having, my attention span can only handle so much information about one topic. Luckily, there are a lot of things to do in Memphis beyond music and the blues. 5 Things to Do in Memphis TN (Not Related
In Memphis, checking out some good music is a no-brainer. Beale Street is worthy of its fame, and I was thrilled that live music wasn’t limited to just weekend nights. While I can heartily recommend checking out a blues club or two on your visit, I also really loved learning more about the different styles
I used to plan out one or two restaurants to try on vacation based on suggestions from friends, but today it’s all too easy to get more recommendations than you can possibly squeeze into a single trip. For a small city, Asheville had a lot of restaurants I wanted to try and it was impossible
I was going stir crazy in February after a few weeks in a row of staying indoors, so I needed an opportunity for a getaway. Since I’ve seen almost everything I want to here in Virginia, it was time to venture further afield. The perfect solution? A roadtrip to Asheville, complete with a great playlist
I am not a shopper. Some people love to hunt through racks of clothing to find that perfect clearance dress and others will score through ads to find ways to save tons on electronics. While I don’t shop in the conventional sense very often, I lose all sense when it comes to wading through travel
The first time I went to Spain, I included Madrid as part of my plans because the guidebooks said it was a must, not because I wanted to go there. I did a fair amount of reading on the city and came up with exactly one thing I wanted to see there (Palacio Real de
I tend to fall victim to the mindset that travel has to be far away to “count”, forgetting that sometimes there are wonderful attractions right in my own backyard. However, when life got in the way of my existing travel plans for last weekend, a “near-cation” became an incredible back-up plan. For this particular experience,
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