Tom, my fiancé, bought a scooter a couple weeks ago. Since between school (which is too far to ride the scooter to), work (which is too far to ride the scooter to), and wedding planning (yes, I require his help) he obviously has time to ride it. I call it his pre-wedding bachelorhood crisis. I’m [...]
One Day in Thailand, This Happened… An elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent! I stare at the elephants lumbering by and the old Dr. Seuss line doesn’t make me feel better about the fact that these elephants could smoosh me in about two seconds. They don’t know me after all, so they’re not going to be [...]
One Day in Italy, This Happened… I had my first sip of a hot, frothy cappuccino in Italy thanks to two guys from the Bronx. And along the way to that cappuccino, I also experienced a few other Italian firsts. My friend Cee and I were sitting in a little alcove of the Colosseum in [...]
One Day in England, This Happened… I hit snooze on my phone and burrowed back under my duvet with a groan. “How is it already seven?” I muttered as my cat, Rooney, stepped on my head. To him, the alarm clock meant the lady who feeds him is getting up. To me, it’s another Monday [...]
One Day in Santa Barbara, This Happened… I set the glass down and looked at Tom. “Oh wow!” I exclaimed, smacking my lips. He started to reach for the glass and I snatched it back. “Wait! I’m not done yet!” I said furtively. In response, he flashed me a grin of both amusement [...]
Oh, Mother Nature, not Cinque Terre. My heart dropped when I heard the news that the stunning, pastel-paneled towns of Monterosso and Vernazza in the UNESCO-heritage site of Cinque Terre had been devastated by flash floods and mudslides this week. Pictures from the area show cars in the middle of streets and squares burrowed into [...]
One Day in Italy, This Happened… I stare at the map. “I have no idea,” I say. “Well, figure it out,” Mom snaps. “I can’t look right now.” “Uh…” We are driving along a dark and windy road somewhere in the vicinity of Montalcino, Italy. Shadowed trees and sporadic stone cottages just barely visible under [...]
There was a period of my life in my mid-twenties that was tumultuous, financially strapped, and career-driven. During that time, I had to put traveling on the back burner and focus on simply making it and getting through the year. But the lure of travel never waived, not even for a moment. My heart ached [...]
One Day in Jamaica, This Happened… “Just remember, don’t panic,” my fiancé Tom says to me as we sit on the dive boat skimming across the turquoise waters of Jamaica. “Right,” I respond. “No panicking.” I pause. “Wait, is there something here to cause me to panic?” I pause again. “Do great whites live here?!” [...]
One Day in Italy, This Happened… I am sitting at a café smack in the middle of fashion central in Capri, Italy. This was the area my boyfriend, Tom, and I were in when we decided we couldn’t wait a second longer to eat and plopped down at one of the quaint little tables lining [...]
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.
Not Cinque Terre
by Gina on October 28, 2011 · 1 comment
Oh, Mother Nature, not Cinque Terre. My heart dropped when I heard the news that the stunning, pastel-paneled towns of Monterosso and Vernazza in the UNESCO-heritage site of Cinque Terre had been devastated by flash floods and mudslides this week. Pictures from the area show cars in the middle of streets and squares burrowed into [...]