a travel and style blog
Michael and I have been taking a trip to Europe every summer over the last four years, and each time we’ve brought along one additional item that you might not expect: a journal to capture both the important and mundane parts of each and every travel day. It takes patience and diligence to keep a …
Let’s just say a visit to an Italian emergency room wasn’t on my travel itinerary…
Sharing some of my best tips for avoiding tourist trap restaurants
Rounding up my five go-to shoes for travel in 2017.
“If you don’t know it already, your flight has been canceled,” she said over the intercom, almost mockingly. Michael and I had been at the Milan airport for nearly nine hours when we heard this announcement. We’d shopped all there was to shop, eaten all we could manage to eat, and surfed the internet as …
Michael and I held off on applying for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry Program for years, in part because of cost ($100? We can buy a plane ticket for that!) and also because none of the nearby enrollment centers had hours that would fit in with our work schedules. Note: The cost …
Michael and I booked our recent trip to Italy only a month and a half in advance which didn’t give us much time to plan, let alone learn a new language! Planning took priority of course; we wanted to make sure we had places to stay and a means of getting there. But while covering …
(I could probably end the post right here)