Finally, after weeks of typing away behind the scenes, running around town taking photos, and tons of online research, I am finished! (Well, as finished as I can be with pages that will have to be maintained, added to, and updated on a regular basis.) This has been a labor of love, to be sure, [...]

Burlington City Arts has announced its 2008 lineup of bands for its annual summer concert series, which take place every Thursday in July, starting on the 10th. I sampled the music online and it’s a great batch of performers this year. It’s hard to believe it’s also FREE! If you’re going to be in Burlington [...]

Budget Travel recently put out its list of the top 10 best travel innovations of the past 10 years (though actually one of their innovations has been around longer than that). It got me thinking what are my favorite things that make travel easier? My list definitely coincides with theirs to a large extent. Certainly [...]

Christopher Elliott’s column (“Hitting the road solo? Prepare to pay up”) at MSNBC.com today takes on my biggest pet peeve of the travel industry: Discrimination against solo travelers. Discrimination in any form steams me, but discriminating against people for having the courage to travel without a companion is just so ridiculous, I don’t even know [...]