Forgive me if I don’t enjoy looking like a disaster when I travel. I know I am supposed to not care about my appearance and throw on the same T-shirt over and over again. I am supposed to uphold the bare bones traveler look, one who is not focused on their mascara layers but rather the layers of their adventure. This comes across as shallow to many who pack only one pair of underwear, but I don’t want to be a complete mess when I travel. I think places have a lot to do with the traveler. I enjoy looking my best when I travel for I feel better and I hope, just maybe, those American Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of June 13, 2011
As I plot my next big adventure, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new here, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment, stumble it using Stumbleupon, tweet the article on Twitter and post a link to the piece on my Facebook page. The following week I select my five favorites to be featured here and the stumbling begins again into the next week. Just a few things to keep in mind, you can only submit one link per person each week. You have until the end of the day on Friday to submit Continue Reading
Lonely Travel Is Good For You
Looking up lonely in the dictionary presents several less than flattering definitions. Some will be blunt and define the term as “sad because one has no friends or company”. Others will be gentler and define lonely as merely “unfrequented, remote or solitary”. The adjective is not one we couple with travel often. Travel is filled with company, new friends, new places and new ideas on the world. Generally looked at negatively, I don’t think I am alone, ironically, in saying lonely travel is not what we strive for on our travels. I want to feel apart of a place and people, not outside of it. Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of June 6, 2011
A day late due to a wedding and a road trip, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to my site, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment on the article, tweet the post on Twitter, stumble it using Stumbleupon and post a link to the piece on my Facebook page. The following week, I select my five favorites to be featured here and the stumbling begins again into the next week. A few things to keep in mind please leave your submission in the comment box below this article. Your Continue Reading
Lake Tahoe, California Wishes You Were Here
I can hear the crashing of waves as I fall asleep. No wonder I was out like a rock after the long drive from Park City, Utah. I haven’t reached the Pacific just yet, but rather Lake Tahoe, falling in muddled territory between Nevada and California. The winds today have brought in the waves of America’s second deepest lake. As my ears burn, I walk out to the pier on Lake Tahoe’s North Shore. As my overly enthusiast waiter last night said it’s a calmer scene compared to the South Shore. He says this with a few extra “likes” and “mans”, so I will take his word for it. Snow is not far away in Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of May 30, 2011
For somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new here, each week I ask writers and readers to share their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the article on Stumbleupon and post a link to the piece on my Facebook page. The following week, I select my five favorites to be featured here and the stumbling begins again into the next week. Just a few things to keep in mind, please only submit one post per person each week. The piece should be travel Continue Reading
Locorotondo, Italy Wishes You Were
When you read that the most beautiful village in all of Italy is just a few miles away, you can't fight the urge to go and judge for yourself. Italy crawls with villages that could easily be the most beautiful in all of the country. Locorotondo in the country’s southern Puglia region has the coveted title of one of the borghi piú belli d’Italia, otherwise, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. I had to go and see for myself. Coming up on Locorotondo, my skepticism got the best of me. It didn’t look like much, a city on a hill but not one a pilgrim would write home about to Continue Reading