What a difference a year makes! I could never imagine what lie ahead of me when I closed my office door saying goodbye to a job of over twenty years. The job elimination was not in my plans and yet here I was unemployed for the first time since I […]
I started this blog at the end of 2012 after amazing trips to Easter Island and Africa. Each year, I try to summarize my year in travel blogging (Year 1 Update, Year 2 Update) –the highs, the lows, a bit of sappy and the lessons learned along the way. 2015 […]
The day started off picture perfect – I slept in, had breakfast and checked out of Hotel Atmospheres in Paris. My Eurostar train from Paris to London was scheduled for 1 p.m. so I had time to leisurely stroll around the city one last time before bidding adieu. The sun […]
I’ve escaped my life at home and here I sit watching the world float by – literally watching people from around the world on what is presumably their first gondola ride in Venice. Watching their faces as they point at the buildings, others taking photos and some playing with their phones bored […]
So my life is changing whether I want it to or not so I decided it was a great excuse to begin my EPIC journey and see where it leads. When I wrote about the crazy $399 transatlantic cruise to Barcelona from Miami on the Norwegian EPIC cruise ship, I sent […]
Looking back I wished I had the maturity (and foresight) to know that I should have taken more photos of my childhood – the neighborhood, the stores, the neighbors and those I interacted with – documenting life in Northeast Philadelphia in the 1970 – 1990’s. Sure there are the photos […]
To show my age, I remember Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and the insane media circus around their relationship. The combining of names began and they were no longer Ben & Jennifer they morphed into “Bennifer” to make it somehow easier than saying or typing their whole names? Really? At the time, […]
It’s getting very personal out in the world especially if you are a solo woman traveler. For years, I shrugged off the crazy questions, the observations that are best left unsaid and the many comments that folks forgot to filter. I would rationalize it that it was their culture to […]
I won’t lie – I do enjoy a good “I told you so” when someone admits I was right with advice. At a recent lunch, however, with our current college intern and former intern, I wasn’t feeling any sense of satisfaction – I was sad. Sad that our former college […]
My friend’s flight was delayed due to weather and this caused her and her family to miss their connection to London. When she told me that she was flying from Philadelphia to New York to London, I gave her this obviously weird look and said “Why would the travel agent […]