For the last 16 years I’ve been creating holiday wrap up videos in place of sending holiday cards. This is one tradition I’ve been able to keep up since I started traveling in 2006. It’s great to have all of my year in review travel videos all in the same place! Each year I have […]
How do you go to a popular tourist site, but not feel like a tourist? It’s really a challenge at times, especially since I really dislike crowds and ‘over-populated’ tourist sites. This makes being a travel blogger a bit difficult at times. When my Wild Atlantic Way road trip itinerary took me to the uber-touristy […]
Happy Holidays! I can’t believe it’s my 12th year of doing these holiday videos! I’m not a video person mainly because I hate editing videos. It takes me a full 10 to 12-hour day to get this video done. So every year I don’t think I’ll make the video and then tradition (and guilt) wins […]
I heard myself let out an audible gasp as my whole body tensed up. My eyes were targeted on the small figure scurrying up 30 feet over 8 levels of people to the top of the narrow tower. I was nervous for her, for everyone; yet I had to remind myself that this was an […]
I drove into the little hamlet of Holzhausen Germany, nestled in the rolling hills and blanketed in morning fog; it seemed like a German fairy tale. Everything and every person were rather precise, reserved, serious, and orderly in the little German town, just as one would expect. However on the outskirts of Holzhausen there lived […]
You know Daisy and Rufus and Jasper and Olive,you know Rocky Cupcake and Buttercup,But do you recallThe most famous reindeer of all… Meet Rudy the Reindeer living far north in Fairbanks Alaska. Drive Slow When Arriving at Running Reindeer Ranch As I pulled into the driveway two big balls of brown fur ran out in […]
You put them on your tree every year, but have you ever wondered – why? Why do we hang glass balls on a tree – it’s really kind of strange if you think about it. Yet we do it all around the world, year after year, after year. I’m often fascinated with how things became […]
What are we going to do today? Someone in our group asks.“Eat, drink, and enjoy life,” came the reply. We all smile because we know it’s true. Travel in Catalonia, specifically the Spanish Pyrenees and Costa Brava, is about enjoying simple pleasures. And they have pleasure in abundance; there’s so much of it that I […]
We all pulled the chairs up close gathering around our stereo cabinet. My dad was ready; he had his number 2 pencil and yellow legal notepad. He was meticulously filling each line with a number – 1 through 200 representing each lap. In the late 1970’s, this is what we considered family time, all sitting […]
Tim looked at me and asked, “What are you nervous about?” I was shivering with water rushing around me perched at the top of Empress Falls in Australia’s Blue Mountains. I was staring down 80 feet to the bottom where the water spray exhibited it’s sheer power. There were so many things swirling in my […]
