The Little Cray Pot Restaurant Makes a Big Impact You have to go out of your way to get to the Cray Pot restaurant near Haast, New Zealand. It’s about 30 minutes off the main highway to Haast and once you reach there, you’re basically at a dead end and will just have to turn [...]
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Trying a Chicago Style Hot Dog at Portillo’s in Downtown Chicago: No Ketchup, but Something Better Along with deep dish pizza, hot dogs are one of the food items most people think of when it comes to Chicago. Despite my knowledge that hot dogs were a big deal in Chicago, I’d never given much thought [...]
One Day in New Zealand, I Ate Here… Eating and Learning about Green-Lipped Mussels at The Mussel Pot in New Zealand When I first heard of green-lipped mussels from New Zealand, I didn’t think they’d really be green. Maybe ever so slightly dark greenish black on a corner. But, turned out, they were very green. [...]
One Day in Cambridge, I ate here… Gran Gusto: Homemade Italian Food in a Charming Cambridge Location “I’ve never seen it this busy,” Coley whispered to me. “Maybe everyone is filling up on carbs before the big snowstorm,” I whispered back. We surveyed the sweet, unpretentious main dining room of Gran Gusto, an Italian Trattoria [...]
Mallorca, San Juan – A Great Combination, Especially at Cafeteria Mallorca I didn’t do much research on San Juan, Puerto Rico before arriving. One of the downfalls of traversing the Caribbean on a work cruise. I wasn’t even sure how much time I’d have in port until the day before the cruise arrived in San [...]
Happy Halloween! In honor of this spooky day, I am going to tell you about one of my favorite bars in all of the land. It’s a place of laughs, raucousness, great conversation, cheap drinks, and…an ancient mystery of death and destruction. The bar is actually an English pub: Ye Olde Cross in Alnwick, England. Or, as [...]
One Day in Napa Valley, I ate at these restaurants… Napa Valley is known for its wines – just about everyone knows that. However, a lesser known allure of Napa is its abundance of top-notch restaurants. During a recent weekend getaway to Napa with Tom, I sampled an array of Napa’s cuisine and picked my [...]
One Day, I Went to this Restaurant in Mexico: Alux Cave Restaurant I was sitting in the bar at our resort on the Mexican Riviera when I overheard our bartender telling the couple sitting at the bar next to me what restaurant they had to visit when they went to Playa del Carmen later that [...]
One Day, I Went to this Restaurant in Thailand… Tom and I weren’t planning on eating at a French restaurant while we were in Thailand, but upon examining the menu of La Fourchette while we were in Chiang Mai our mouths began watering too much to turn it down. There was just one problem. This [...]
One Day, I Went to this Restaurant in Sonoma, California… “This is where the Bachelor ate at!” my fiancé Tom exclaimed from across the table. “That’s how I recognize this name.” “Are you serious?” I responded with a laugh. “Go figure.” We were sitting at a table in the back of The Girl and the [...]
I'm a travel marketer and travel writer. My husband, Tom, is getting his MBA and never stops studying. We have two cats. We have a mortgage. We have a passion for traveling. We have limited vacation time and funds.
Our friends and family wonder how we travel so much.
Here's how I balance it all and maximize travel time and getting the most out of a destination when time is short.
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