Find travel guides, planning tips, advice, and resources for where you want to go for all the destinations I’ve visited! Everything is sorted by country and/or state for easy searching. Great for dreaming, planning, and making your trip a reality!
For the most part, group tours are boring. I have no interest in paying a premium to drive by monuments, visit a museum or two, and take a generic walking tour of a world capital. I can do that on my own — or most likely, I’ll skip it and do something that better fits […]
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In the middle of nowhere — and yet somewhere Mike and I have driven by countless times — is Virginia’s old-school resort: The Homestead. The original lodge was built in 1766 and even though many things have changed since then, the century-old allure hasn’t changed. After five or six years of saying “maybe next time” whenever we
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Iceland is quickly becoming a great short getaway destination for North Americans. It thoroughly deserves your travel consideration and you’ve come to the right place to find out all there is to know about planning your trip to visit Iceland. Iceland Travel Tips and Advice: Frequently Asked Questions Learn all about Iceland quickly in
My love for Central America is no accident. Like with any interest, once you grasp the basics, you can move onto learning the intricacies of something. With the details you go from a passing interest to a richer understanding and often the desire to keep going deeper. That’s how one trip to Guatemala led to another,
There’s probably no better snack than peanut butter and when it’s made from organic peanuts grown in volcanic soil, it’s even more indulgent. No one knows that better than Lilian and her family since they spend the better part of a year roasting and grinding the peanuts from 10,000 plants grown on the hills near
“It’s a tax on stupid people,” my boss used to say, and indeed I know the odds of winning the Powerball. Actually, you don’t even need a course in advanced statistics to calculate that: Powerball straight out shares that the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292 million. And yet, I bought a
No question about it: Nicaragua is one of my all-time favorite destinations. In fact, I loved my first visit there so much that I just couldn’t stop writing about it! Here’s a guide to all of my Nicaragua articles to help you plan your upcoming trip. Get Started: Just the Basics About Nicaragua Frequently Asked
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Last year, I made a pretty big claim: Mexico was the best country I visited the entire year. It has adventure, nature, history, and food (omg…the food.) But this time, my sister and I headed to the capital city. After four brief days in Mexico City, I’m neither astounded nor underwhelmed. If you’ve ever met
You know it’s gonna be good when you’re so excited about a trip that you move your timeline up by three weeks. Mike and I had been talking about a trip to Pittsburgh for the end of September and then spur of the moment decided to spend Labor Day there instead. We ended up with
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The best part about roadtrips with my husband is that he lets me change plans on a whim. He didn’t think twice when I told him I wanted to forfeit our hotel reservation in Detroit and skip over all of Ohio, getting to West Virginia three days earlier than planned. West Virginia is one of the
