Christine of Christine in Spain tagged me well over a month ago to share my ABC’s of Travel. As I am the world’s top procrastinator, I figured it was about time to spell out this alphabet. This is a fun A-Z survey to get to know the travel secrets of our favorite travel bloggers. If you’re chosen, fill it out and choose 5 travel bloggers you want to know more about! A: Age you went on your first international trip: I know I had crossed the border into Mexico on a family vacation to San Diego and visited Canada around the age of 4, but my first international trip I truly remember is when I Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of November 14, 2011
As another week passes, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece on Stumbleupon and place a link to the post on my Facebook page. The following week I select my five favorite submissions to be featured here and the stumbling can begin again into the next week. Just a few things to keep in mind, please only submit one post per person each week. Your submission should be travel Continue Reading
Extremadura, Spain Wishes You Were Here
This week’s Wish You Were Here post comes from Will Peach, one of the site editors at Gapdaemon.com, the gap year travel community website for backpackers and young independent travelers. Will is fascinated with learning Spanish and studying as much as he can about the culture of his adopted country. He likes to visit sleepy Spanish towns and sit in cafes with a cafe con leche and slice of Spanish omelette while pouring over grammar books. Be sure to check out his writing and follow him on twitter at @willpeach. Spain can be all things to all people, yet for me it’s simply home. My part of Continue Reading
The Bold Civility of Montgomery, Alabama
“Alright Big Daddy girl, will you have a banana pudding?”, the rough and tough waitress asked me in Montgomery, Alabama. I had ordered a barbecue pork sandwich called the “Big Daddy” which apparently gave me the fine title of “Big Daddy Girl” for the evening. She was the type of waitress who told me Blue Moon was a local beer, calmly frazzled on her first day of work. The sun had just set on Montgomery when I overheard a conversation. A group of guys shouted across the street to their friend heading on her own way. They asked her if she would be fine walking to her car. She joked in the Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of November 7, 2011
Another week flies by and I present you with this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and place a link to the submission on my Facebook page. The following week I select my five favorites to be featured here and the stumbling can begin again into the next week. Just a few things to keep in mind, please only submit one link per person each week. Leave your submission in the Continue Reading
New York City Wishes You Were Here
I get in line behind construction workers and a few men in suits. My mom and I are the only women around, with the exception of a Fox News anchor getting ready for her moment in the sun. As luck would have it, in one of the biggest cities in the world, we stumble upon a schnitzel food truck, Schnitzel and Things. Having heard about this New York City staple food truck, perhaps only in my dreams, it all seems meant to be to stop for an early lunch. My mom and I sit on the steps of a bank building, along with our fellow diners of businessmen and those in construction. Gorging on my schnitzel Continue Reading
Turning the page at New York’s Library Hotel
Full Disclosure: I received a complimentary night at the Library Hotel. These are my opinions about my experience. Your opinions my vary. The libraries at my elementary school, high school and college were anything but inspirational. Going to any one of the three meant a paper of great length where a dozen sources from actual books were required. I spent much of my senior semester of college on the spooky third floor of my college’s library, figuring out how to use microfilm and read through every book on the Sicilian mafia in the state of California for my thesis. And while the space Continue Reading