On the way to Melbourne, I would have a few stops along the way on my award ticket. My second stop would be Seoul where I chose to stay at the Hyatt Regency Incheon, an airport hotel, for the overnight layover. Not familiar with Hyatt, I had no idea what […]
I’ve never climbed a tree, a fence or the monkey bars in my childhood. As a kid in the city, I walked everywhere and played “Freedom” which involved running like crazy to avoid being caught. Climbing a bridge was never something I thought possible but for my birthday visit to […]
Everyone dreams of luxury but what is luxe to one person may not be to another. For me, I try to use loyalty points/miles to stay in luxury hotels, fly long haul business class and use the savings to upgrade my experiences along the way with private guides, helicopter […]
If you were to walk into most Pennsylvania state controlled liquor stores, the “Australian” wine section is about 90% Yellow Tail. While the “premium section” has a few Australian wines, you can imagine how exciting it has been over the years to visit wineries in Australia on my holidays. My […]
As I look back on the Australia trip, the stars seemed to align for my day on The Great Ocean Road (the GOR) – the weather began sunny and bright on the cool side. When I was researching “things to do in Melbourne”, driving The Great Ocean Road was at […]
Visiting Paris often entails a visit to the Louvre, the Musee D’Orsay or another museum in the city to view amazing art. I was interested in viewing the art outside of the museums – the Paris Street Art scene throughout the city. The tour wasn’t originally on my radar, but […]
Hard to believe that a year ago, I hit “publish” on my first post to start this blog and that this is my 144th post. I spent months struggling with “how to” videos, articles and wordpress technical stuff trying to get it perfect before going live and then I realized […]
I knew it was wrong but I couldn’t stop myself, my body was craving chocolate at 9 a.m., so there I was eating pretzel M&Ms with my breakfast. My body had no clue what time zone it was in and how long we were staying here as for almost two […]
Christmas Markets have become quite popular in the past few years – it seems that every town, city, etc. has one (or ten) available for your pleasure – whether that is in the form of mulled wine, food, dessert, music, entertainment, shopping or a combination of all of the above. […]
Watching the movie “The Angels’ Share” (posted here) provided a bit of insight into Scottish whisky. Prior to that my only knowledge of whiskey was drinking whiskey sours. With my visit to Dublin, I was curious to learn more about whiskey with a visit to the Jameson Irish Whiskey Distillery in […]