Category: USA

  • Adventuring in Beautiful Yosemite National Park

    Given all the international travel we’ve done and every country that’s still on our list, sometimes it’s easy to forget the incredible places that can be found within the enormous and varied country we live in. Our National Park system is the envy of the rest of the world, and there may be no more…

  • Adorable Asheville

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    I can’t rave enough about this awesome town at the base of the Smoky Mountains in the northwestern corner of North Carolina. It’s been six months since we’ve been and I still smile when I think of our time there. Play Every Day in West Asheville We’d been wanting to check out Asheville for a…

  • A look back at 2013

    2013: The year of the unwritten blog post. I don’t know where the year went, but here we are, in glorious 2014, and I realize, thinking back, that we actually kinda got around this past year. Nothing like 2011-2012, but hey, you can’t always have the (travel) year of your life. I’m not complaining, but…

  • Celebrating Love in East Hampton

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    This fall has afforded me some great East Coast and Midwest travel (thanks, dysfunctional government, for those 16 days off!). My first fall trip was to East Hampton, Long Island, where a group of extremely fun gals and one lucky guy spent a long weekend in September celebrating the upcoming nuptials of one of my…

  • Palm Springs: Don Draper, Date Shakes, and Desert

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    Palm Springs, California. The place might make you think of Bob Hope surrounded by palm trees in a desert. Or you might think of white sand beaches– isn’t there a Palm Springs in Florida? (Yes, but I avoid Florida at all costs). It may seem like a curious destination for a group of 30 y.o.-ish…