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Hello, reader! Thank you for visiting my blog – I'm so happy you're here. I've maintained this blog for more than fifteen years, and...

One year ago I left my full-time job to pursue a lifelong dream: I was going to publish my novel. I’d begun writing it in late 2018,...

Late November along the Wild Atlantic Way. My husband is relaxed behind the wheel as we drive, as if he has always known these inverse...

5 p.m. at Sachuest Point is when the trails empty and the wildlife emerges. I have followed the road that hugs the beach, and just when...

The story of Cape May is a story of fire. Of massive hotels – the largest in 19th century America – felled by persistent flames. First,...

A mamon looks like a shrunken-down lime. Underneath its leathery skin is a large pit, encased with a fleshy beige pulp. To eat the mamon...

I am trying not to break eye contact with a Sandinista. This is particularly difficult because, part-way through his history lesson on La...

We came to Mexico City with sushi on the brain.   No, we hadn't heard whispers of any culinary movements, or read reviews praising a new...

A painter, a plumber, and an electrician walk into my house in Nicaragua.   The first arrives around 10 a.m. and catches me just as I am...

On any given day, I can ballpark the average airfare to most anywhere in the world from the major North East airports. Possibly from US...

There's a book called Some Kind of Fairy Tale about a girl who escapes to the land of fairies. There, everything looks much the same as...

We sat on a covered patio staring at a small parking lot along the banks of the John Pennekamp Coral Reef. A few houseboats bobbed up and...

I'm a Phillies fan, by heritage. There's a picture of two-year-old me at the old Veterans Stadium, nearly drowning in red paraphernalia...

Everyone has his or her own list of dream destinations, place where, if we had the time, the opporutnity, the money, we'd drop everything...

Our decision to visit Cologne, Germany, went something like this:    "There's a really cheap flight to Cologne."    "What's in Cologne?"...

The building was hardly threatening. Dirty white labeled with a large "Bienvenidos" and a few hand-painted crosses. Still, my stomach...

Can I Get a What?     Incredible food. It's likely one of your main motivations for traveling to Italy, so you should know how to...

With English on track to becoming the "global language," it almost seems unnecessary for travelers to know the languages spoken in their...

I don't claim to be a travel expert, but when it comes to packing, I'm awesome. Most people dread packing; I enter into a state of...

It's Not Me, It's You: An Open Letter to the Travel Channel   Dear Travel Channel,   You may not know it, but we're on a break. Our...