Sleepless to Seattle: Journeying on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight
This is a follow up from my previous article “Why I’m Excited About Train Travel.” Keep reading to see how the journey went! Riding a train is a lot of things. It’s bumpy, it’s claustrophobic, it’s time-consuming, it’s even maddening. But it’s so, so wonderful. What you can see from a train window is something you can’t see from an airplane, a car, a bicycle. Train travel has a nostalgia all it’s own that transports you on a journey beyond the one you’re already on – back...
read more30 Before 30…and After: the Travel Edition
…in which I try to assemble 30 travel accomplishments that I have achieved (or will, by my 30th birthday close to end of the year), as well as 30 that I hope to realize in the future. To what end I’m not sure, other than I think it’s good to have goals and also everyone else is doing a list like this, so why not me? Ambition is healthy. So here we go. 30 Before 30 – Things I have done visited 4 continents. I’m 60% there! *fistpump* lunched at Tavern on the Green in New York City (now closed…I’d...
read moreTravel Reflections: 2012 Year in Review
How did this year fly by so quickly? So quickly that it took me ’til July to realize I’d forgotten to wish my own blog its annual “Happy Birthday” back in April? I know we all say it at the end of each year…but wow. Unlike my 2011, this year was certainly a year for travel, as I hope next year will be also. It was a year that saw me take my longest voyage to date, to the other side of the globe where people were warm, the air was fresh & clean, the roads spotless and the scenery breathtaking (and did I...
read moreI Studied Abroad – Now What? Why To Consider Travel Blogging
Fact: I never studied abroad. Another fact: it’s one of my biggest regrets. But with a slew of friends working in international education, and after year 2 of spending a day with students returning home from their recent semesters abroad at the annual Lessons From Abroad Conference in Los Angeles, I’ve come to understand (somewhat) the joys and the challenges of such an experience. What I DO know and can speak to, is the world of travel blogging. And be it small successes like mine, or much larger ones like those of my...
read moreBotanical Beauty at Rogers Gardens, Corona del Mar/Newport Beach
2 things about me: one, I have a black thumb. Fern, succulent, it generally doesn’t matter how easy-care it is (or claims to be), I can probably kill it without meaning to. Two, I am (sometimes) easily impressed. So it was no surprise that a day trip down to Orange County to check out Rogers Gardens, which I’d somehow never heard of and now can’t imagine why, both impressed me AND spurred me to do something about that black thumb of mine. And if you think Rogers Gardens is just a florist/nursery, as they self-describe...
read moreWhy I’m Excited About Train Travel
I want you all to know and appreciate how much I am resisting the urge to use all sorts of bad puns here, related to conducting and “getting rolling” or “hopping on board.” I might have to throw a couple in anyway. Because I’m just SO excited about my mini-getaway this October with my parents. We haven’t taken a family vacation since our big trip to Italy in 2006, and if you think hanging with your family is boring or awkward, you’ve never met my parents: they’re hilarious. We’ll be...
read moreTravel Blogger Relay: Leslie’s Top Three Travel Moments
It’s my turn to share my three favorite travel moments! Britany just passed me the baton in the Travel Blogger Relay and is this ever a challenge I’ve enjoyed rising to! (It also made me REALLY miss the Olympics, but I digress…) The Travel Blogger Relay challenges bloggers to each share their three “medal worthy” travel moments and then nominate another blogger to do the same. Racing for Team Green, I’m strapping on my literary cleats to present my top 3 moments to you (and boy was it hard to pick THREE): 1). Watching...
read moreThe Meaning of Maori at Te Papa Tongarewa
This article is part of the monthly ArtSmart Roundtable, a group of art-history-loving travel bloggers who post a related article the first Monday of each month. August’s topic is museums – my favorite subject! For more related posts, check out the links at the end, or find us on Facebook here! Maori. What is Maori? Until recently, my ignorance knew no bounds. Until a sunny day in Wellington, spent at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa. A melange of art, science and history, Te Papa rightly lives up to...
read more3 Wondrous Walks of Wellington
Long have I wished to wander the wonderful world of Wellington – e’er since Lord of the Wings!….I mean, Rings. Come on, who doesn’t love a little alliteration? I certainly used it enough in New Zealand…there are a lot of really great “w” words and a smooth, wavy-sounding word like “Wellington” seemed to want for them to well up (there I go again). You know what else I love? Walking. Apparently so do Wellingtonians, because there are certainly enough places and opportunities to do just...
read moreGetting High at TBEX 2012 in Keystone, CO
Did I scare you with that title? Don’t worry mom, the only “high” I got at TBEX was the Rocky Mountain kind (i.e. a little altitude headache). Nothing a few beers, some social media jargon, media networking and a good old-fashioned hoedown couldn’t cure. Travel Blog Exchange 2012 was held at the beautiful Keystone Resort and Conference Center – quite a switch from last year’s pre-Canuck riot, city-centric Vancouver adventure. As soon as they announced the destination last year I was excited. Colorado is...
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