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 […]
12 Best East Coast Weekend Getaways for an Unbelievable 2020 Read More »
You guys know me: I plan all my own trips, possibly even to a fault. I read, research, and ask questions. I keep detailed notes in Google Docs and keep reading until I’m all-consumed with information overload. It’s not that I think I know every destination better than the experts, just that I’m a little
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I originally wrote a version of this post in 2013, but surprise-surprise! Sometimes things change (and sometimes they don’t). When I first started traveling, I was either really bad at guessing the types of things I like. Or maybe I was in denial? Or easily influenced by others? Who knows the actual reason, but it
Unpopular Opinion: 7 Places I Have No Desire to Go Back To Read More »
With hundreds of travel websites out there, it can be tough to know where to book your trip. These are my favorite travel booking websites — tried and true, so you don’t have to wonder. I actually use these websites, products, and services because they offer the best combination of low prices, being easy to
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“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
In January, my husband and I spent a four-day weekend driving from Bozeman, Montana to Spokane, Washington and exploring a few spots inbetween. Even though we never intended this trip to be a “vacation” (we had some personal business in the area), I had hoped to return to the blog with stories about gorgeous scenery,
