On Monday, I found myself in Elkin, North Carolina with four hours to kill. Elkin might not have been on your tourism radar because it’s a town of 4,000. It’s also not particularly famous (to my knowledge). Should it be on your tourism radar? Maybe. If it isn’t, I hope you’ll find an equally charming…
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Capri and Zurich: Vacation Part Final
I may or may not have forgotten how many “parts” are in our vacation saga. Regardless, this is the end of the trip. Are you ready for an adventure? If you’ve forgotten, we just left Positano behind with all of its not sleep and late-night hotel searches. We got on the ferry to Capri with…
Positano: Vacation Part 5
With a 5 (or 6 or 7) part vacation, you would think we were there for a month. We just had a lot we wanted to see, and we were feeling ambitious. You may or may not remember that our last stop before Positano was Modena, with a seven-hour drive between the two. We planned…
Lovely Lugano (Vacation Part 2)
After we met our rental steed and drove through a few alps, we stopped for a day and a half in my favorite town of all–Lugano, Switzerland. That’s my favorite tree-lined lakeside walk. With my favorite red benches. Those colors are amazing. Nothing but sunshine, lake, and Lugano-ness there. And once you’ve soaked that all in…
Welcome to Switzerland!
Doesn’t this picture look like a ridiculous made-up rest stop from a movie? That was our first “Man, that was a long flight” stop on our vacation adventure, complete with my favorite Swiss beverage–sparkling apple juice. I think that picture captures Switzerland fairly well. Everything is neat and tidy and ridiculously good-looking. This was our…
Monday is for Daydreams
Sometimes the best recommendation for a Monday is to daydream (in responsible doses that make your day better while letting you get something done in the real world… Surgeon General’s work-time warning). Today, I’m thinking about future travel. National Geographic is such an enabler, too. The Dolomites? Sure! I love what a combination of peaceful…
Remembering India
Today’s goals are all fairly mundane and non-blog-worthy–making a doctor’s appointment, unpacking a few of the very last boxes, and you get the picture. So I’ll tell you what I’m thinking about instead. As I look up phone numbers online, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is playing on TV. The movie is about a group…
Small, but valuable. 