I’m a sucker for travel memes, so when I was recently tagged by my friend JoAnna Haugen for a journey through my travels using letters of the alphabet as prompts, I jumped on it. Some of the questions are a bit challenging, and overall, I think I would have preferred choosing my own word or [...]

Books. Glorious books. They take us places when our circumstances cannot, at least in our minds. They inspire us, teach us, open new worlds to us, provide us with countless hours of entertainment. What would we do without them? When I imagine a world without books, without reading, without stories, the world I imagine is [...]

So. . .I know some of you may be wondering how the first Vermont Solo Traveler Meetup went. Not very well, I’m afraid. Even though I feel like I marketed the heck out of it online, only a handful of people registered. One contacted me earlier in the day saying she couldn’t make it because [...]

I have some housekeeping notes for you and thought I’d use that as an excuse to also wish you happy July holidays: To my Canadian friends, I know I’m a bit late in the day on this one, but Happy Canada Day! To my US homies, Happy Independence Day! To my French cousins, here’s an [...]

You know how, if you wait long enough, every music artist who releases more than one album will eventually release a “Greatest Hits” compilation? Well, today’s post is the travel blogger version of that. . .sort of. I was tagged by Matt Long of LandLopers to participate in a travel blogger project going around: “The [...]

If you’re here to read something travel-related, go ahead and skip to the bottom of this post and click on the link. If you don’t mind indulging me a bit in my musings about my writing process, read on. There comes a time in everyone’s life when they hit a wall.  You’re going and going [...]

I just spent my weekend buying a new Macbook Pro to replace my not-quite five-year-old PC laptop that was on its deathbed. I’ve worked the poor Hewlett Packard pretty hard over the years. I’d also grown quite attached to it. But all good things must come to an end, and I didn’t want my laptop [...]

Are you a US citizen  planning extensive international travel? Then you should know about The Visa Book by Christine Gilbert (who writes the fabulous blog, AlmostFearless). While I haven’t traveled very extensively overseas (yet), I do like to daydream about doing so, including tooling around the Internet trying to see how difficult it would be [...]