When I was staying at the Beehive in Rome, I met Toby, a Canadian gal living in London. Over incredible homemade pasta, she told me about her travels in New Zealand where she roamed from place to place, staying for free and working for her keep. I emailed her yesterday for the details on [...]
Thursday, June 5, 2008 | general | 1 Comment
I feel like I’m just waking up from a week-long nap, after down the rabbit hole of stress. But I’m back and ready to get crackin’ on some fun travel chit chat. I’ve got some kick-ass plans in the works that I can’t wait to tell you about, but until they’re ironed out, I’m staying [...]
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | general | 3 Comments
So, random question as part of my research - do you (or anyone) know of any great international travel volunteer opportunities? I’d only have 2, possibly 3, weeks. Total costs for the trip would need to be under $2500. And I’m hoping that it would also include meeting a diverse, interesting group of people and [...]
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | general | 8 Comments
I meant to post this last week when it was still fresh and newsy, but I plum forgot. Anyway, I know the article was written for a Salt Lake City media outlet, but the premise is interesting.
Is it cheaper to fly to your summer vacay destination, or drive?
Used to be that the answer was [...]
Monday, May 19, 2008 | general | 10 Comments
So, I’ve been asked a couple of times about airlines - which ones are great, which ones I’d sooner carve all my ex-boyfriends initials into my flesh with a dull pocketknife than board ever again. And although technically, the worst problems I’ve ever experienced flying the friendly skies were things like delays and flight cancellations, [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | general | 17 Comments
If you live in the Houston area, you’ve got to check out the Orange Show Center for Visual Arts & their Eye Opener tours. When discussing plans for upcoming installments of Tourist in my Hometown, my friends Neil and Ethun recommended this quirky little jaunt. I’m putting together plans to get down there and experience [...]
Monday, May 12, 2008 | general | 2 Comments
I feel like I’m grounded. Now that I’m back working a full-time shtick, I’m slowly and painstakingly accruing PTO (which is just a simple way of saying, your sick time and your vacation time is the same darn thing) to blow on a trip to Prague in the fall. It’s freaking torture. Spending those many [...]
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | general | 5 Comments
(Video courtesy of Jen, from our 2006 Costa Rica trip. As promised!)
Sunday, April 27, 2008 | general | 3 Comments
For a while, I was just too busy to go blog-hoppin’ like I used to. My lunch hour is pretty freakin’ precious and usually I spend it outside, in the sun, reading. But the other day, I was doing some googling and found this site.
France, China, Vietnam, Benin - these people are going everywhere I’m [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | general | No Comments
It’s raining in Dallas. It does that a lot, I’ve discovered. For every sunny day, we get three or four that drain you of the will to live. Know what I do when I should be going out for my lunch-time walk? I plan imaginary get-aways
Brazil is top on my imagination vacation list, because [...]
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | general | 12 Comments
