Independent Travel, Thoughtfully Planned
If you are ever driving on Highway 99 between Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, make sure you stop at Bravo Farms in Traver, Californiato refuel your car and your stomach. You’ll have a very pleasant surprise!
Bravo Farms: More Than a Refueling Stop on Highway 99Read More
Guarding the port of Long Beach, California, the retired British ocean liner – Queen Mary – floats silently like a ghost. For most of us, she is a nostalgic memento of a bygone era. But few of those who marvel at the beauty of Queen Mary ship know the history of this Los Angeles icon.
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Linda and Dan Bibb from As We Saw It, as part of a series of interviews that I started last year. This series is meant to reveal the persons behind some of the blogs that we’ve got accustomed to read. Dan and Linda are a couple of American empty-nesters who left …
Interview With Linda and Dan Bibb from As We Saw ItRead More
Peacocks! Waterfalls! A haunted mansion and so much more! If you have more than 3 days in L. A., don’t miss the beautiful Los Angeles County Arboretum. This mesmerizing botanical garden in Arcadia, is one of the best weekend getaways from Los Angeles.
How to Spend a Day at the Los Angeles County ArboretumRead More
This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Lyn Baker from A Hole In My Shoe. Lyn and Steve are travel bloggers from Perth, Western Australia. Their thirst for travel started at 50, when for their honeymoon, they took their first overseas trip together and travelled to South East Asia. Within the next 2 years they visited 16 countries and …
Red Rock Crossing trail is one of my favorite hiking places in Sedona, Arizona. It’s also the location where photographers go to get the iconic photos of the Cathedral Rock with the stream in front of it. The beautiful 1.8 mile trail is located in the Red Rock State Park, just outside the town of Sedona, …
Red Rock Crossing – Hiking Sedona’s Most Iconic TrailRead More
This week I am starting a new series of interviews with Rosemary Kneipp, the writer and photographer at Aussie in France. Rosemary was the one who encouraged and inspired me to write. After reading the first few posts from Aussie in France, I felt a great desire to start my own blog. Rosemary is an Australian-born …
Interview with Rosemary Kneipp, from “Aussie in France”Read More
Forty years after leaving Romania, I can still spot it across a room: the face a foreigner makes the moment they realize they’ve broken a rule no one warned them about. And I always know exactly which rule it was. It happens because when visiting Romania you may easily feel at home and forget that you are …
What You Should Know About Romanians Before You Visit RomaniaRead More
Standing on an island in the middle of the Indre River, about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Tours, lies one of the finest châteaux of the Loire Valley: the Château Azay-le-Rideau.
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau – a Hidden Gem in the Loire ValleyRead More
