Newly married and touching down in Greece today, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask bloggers/writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. This can be from your own site or another writer’s piece. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and post a link to the article 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 Continue Reading
Six Greek Island Packing Essentials
When I begin the packing process, I always try to read up on what to wear for that specific destination. I don’t want to stand out like a sore thumb when I travel. For Greece in late summer and early fall, most of what I read noted that the dress is very casual, a shorts and T-shirts kind of place and season. Packing would be simple, or so I thought. In the chaos of getting married in a few days and also packing for three weeks in Greece and Sicily, I was left with that ultimate packing challenge I described earlier. And rather than accepting defeat and throwing a hodgepodge of articles Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of August 19, 2013
After taking a week off of stumbles to finish up all of those wedding details, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask bloggers/writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. This can be from your own site or another writer’s piece. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and post a link to the article 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 Continue Reading
On Dealing with Ultimate Packing Challenges
The sound of the suitcase zipper hits a powerful note. It signals the end to the packing problems and the beginning of an adventure. It is a sound that I anticipate with a great deal of joy but also with bittersweet chaos. I know in order to hear its zig-zag tone, I must gather all that I need and want into a lone space. It is always a long night when I am traveling the next day, namely due to packing. While I don’t procrastinate until the 11th hour, I do somehow always find myself up until 2AM sitting on suitcases. I have packed for anywhere from five-month journeys or just the three-day Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of August 6, 2013
As I count down to my wedding and Greece in a few weeks, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask bloggers/writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. This can be from your own site or another writer’s piece. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and post a link to the article 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 Continue Reading
The Garden of the Gods Wishes You Were Here
To some, a beer garden is pure heaven. Drinking a cold brew under the shade of trees and good company has a certain ethereal quality. It is no wonder that in August of 1859 M.S. Beach, a surveyor headed from Denver down south, took one look at the otherworldly rock formations on the foothills of the Rocky Mountain’s eastern Front Range and thought this setting was suited not for gods, but for a beer garden. His companion Rufus Cable had other ideas. Such a landscape of rocks that seemed to impossibly perch and charge out of the earth was not good enough for beer but rather the gods. He Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of July 29, 2013
As I count down the days to my wedding and honeymoon in about a month, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask bloggers/writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. This can be from your own site or another writer’s piece. I read each submission, comment, tweet the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and post a link to the article 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 Continue Reading