It’s getting easier and easier for Americans to travel to Cuba all the time and I can’t wait to go myself. I’ve done a lot of work this year writing about Cuba from the notes of people who have already been there. From that work and those notes I’ve compiled a huge list of things I’d…
I love to eat and I hate sitting on a train, bus or airplane feeling really hungry. I get super cranky if I feel trapped without food. So I’m one of those people who always has a snack in her purse (unless I just ate the last one…). These are twenty-five things that might be…
Today is the last day of Summer. Let’s end this Summer with beautiful memories of warm days, long hours of sunlight, night time campfires, and flip-flops. Blue sky, blue lake, and green trees as far as the eye can see from the top of a mountain. The Minne Ha Ha steamboat taking off…
Finding gelato in Italy is easy. Finding awesome gelato in Italy is far trickier, especially in a touristy city life Florence. The places with crappy gelato spend their money on location and marketing. The places with awesome gelato spend their money on quality ingredients and their time on high-quality, small-batch production. This means that gelato stand…
On Sunday, I depart for a week in New York City. Today, I’ve got that Monday morning kind of daydreaming going on. The type where you know that you’re going somewhere cool, you had a super fun weekend, you’re a little sleepy and not ready to do any work yet, but your boss is crazy…
Orvieto is a hill town about an hour outside of Rome in the region of Umbria. The old town on the hill-top has very few cars and few tourists who stay longer than mid-morning to dusk for a single day. Give Orvieto a little bit longer, maybe three days, and you’ll get to discover all…
Over the past sixteen years, I’ve traveled all over Europe, but I’ve still seen only 11 of the 44 countries in Europe. And of those 11, I’ve seen only a small fraction of what those have to offer. I know that no matter how many times I travel to Europe in my life, there will…
My winter trip to Copenhagen with my friend Tess will (hopefully) always be known as my brokest trip ever. We were both in graduate school. We bought the plane tickets cheap. And we were determined to make it work. It’s one of the most fun trips I’ve ever been on and we spent next to…
Pittsburgh is a foodie town in the most wonderful and bizarre ways. We’ve got our hipster coffee shops and breweries, endless happy hours, dive bars sports bars, high end restaurants with chef’s tasting menus, and a pretty famous sandwich shop. We even have an urban cider house. But the Pittsburgh food staples we’re looking at today…
As much as I adore planning a trip, it is often the unplanned moments that are the best. In Orvieto, we had a grand old time petting the friendly cats that live all over the town. We encountered them first on our way to walk the Rupe that rings the town. We visited them again…