Nothing kills a vacation faster than getting sick. You’ve waited months, perhaps years, for this trip and sure enough, you arrive at your destination, and all those alien germs you’ve never been exposed to before decide to play pig-pile on you and you catch the flu. Or you pick up the dreaded airplane [...]

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If you’re in the vicinity of St. Albans, VT (about 30 minutes north of Burlington, VT via I-89) this weekend, and you have a sweet tooth, get your maple fix at the 42nd Annual Vermont Maple Festival, running Friday through Sunday. Gorge yourself on sugar-on-snow, maple donuts, maple cotton candy, and maple creemees. [...]

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If you haven’t yet decided yet where to go for your summer vacation, here’s an opportunity to let your ears make the decision for you: Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured an article on upcoming rock concerts around the country this summer. There is a smorgasbord of them. And it’s not like they [...]

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Some friends and I had dinner here last week. Burlington Hearth is a licensed location of American Flatbread, based in Waitsfield, VT. They also have a Middlebury, VT location. They make the tastiest flatbread pizzas using brick ovens in an open kitchen area, where you can watch them work from your table in the [...]

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Check out this week’s Blog Carnival of Cities, hosted at eyeflare.com. My article, One for Vegas, is featured.
Up until a few days ago, I had no idea blog carnivals existed. It’s a great way to be introduced to new blogs on the topics you are most interested in (in my case, [...]

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As you know by now from reading my blog post “One for Vegas,” I’m a big fan of solo travel to Las Vegas. I thought it might be helpful to other solo travelers to have some information gathered in one place that talks about various aspects of visiting Las Vegas alone. To that [...]

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If you’re interested in trying a solo trip, but you’re not sure where to go, you might need a reason, a purpose, for your trip. And if you love food, what better reason than to attend a food festival! There are many taking place around the U.S., and as the blog Shlashfood notes, [...]

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If you’re a music lover and you don’t already live here, you might want to consider booking a trip to Burlington, VT this June for our Discover Jazz Festival. This is considered one of the top 10 music festivals in the world (The Music Festival Guide, Chicago Review Press, Inc.). It’s a beautiful time [...]

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Just saw this press release on an April teleseminar series for baby boomer women who are interested in planning travel for themselves. It is being sponsored by the National Association of Baby Boomer Women (NABBW) and starts today (kind of short notice, that). Here’s the schedule:
About the “Girls Just Want to have Fun: [...]

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I was in Miami in February for a business conference, staying in South Beach. (I love my business for allowing me to travel to Miami in February when it’s ungodly cold in Vermont–and it’s a tax deduction! Woo!) South Beach is not a place I would normally recommend as a travel destination [...]

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