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This is the second post in my 3-post series about my recent trip to the Bahamas. YES, it was FREE! This is the second day of our trip… which started with French pastries and donuts, mimosas, and a lot of inspiring lectures… and ended with the most amazing sushi.
I still can’t believe I got a free trip to the Bahamas last November. In this post, I’ll share how I did it, and how you can get a trip like this, too. I definitely worked for it… but that made it even better. Read on to learn why…
Finally getting around to planning a family vacation abroad. This itinerary is a 2-week trip to England and Scotland (with kids). My children are finally old enough to do a trip like this (daughter is 11 and son is 4). We’ve done a lot of trips domestically, and I think they’re finally ready for a trip overseas.
I turned 50 last year, and I’ve been thinking about what I want to do with the second half of my life. I figure I have 3 or 4 more good decades on this planet… and that’s not that much if you think about it. So I wanted to write out my travel bucket list so I can check it off as I visit various places. One thing I’ve learned about setting goals… if you don’t write them down, you never get around to making them happen. I hope this bucket list inspires you to plan some trips and gives you some ideas.
When in Rome, you go to Vatican City. When in Washington, DC, you visit the Trump Hotel. In this Trump Hotel DC Restaurant Review, I cover a tourist destination with fantastic food, beautiful architecture and gorgeous interior design.
We are finally getting back to our regular life after the holidays. We spent 4 days in Dallas to visit family, and then 3 days in Puerto Rico over Christmas. With 2 kids. Crazy? Maybe. Too short, for sure. But it was all the time my husband could take away from his clients.
The last international trip we took was in 2013 to Brazil. Last month, when my husband asked me if I wanted to go to a Bitcoin (cryptocurrency) conferencein Barcelona, I said absolutely.
Last week, we went on our first homeschool camping trip. It was the longest camping trip I’ve ever been on (well, at least, the longest one I’ve been in charge of packing and cooking for).
Five nights in the desert. Yes, I had to cook with a camp stove for 5 nights! I was nervous but it turned out OK.
After the first night, that is. The first night was hell.
Where do you get the best French fries in L.A.? Two words: Plan Check.
And why are they the best? Two words: Beef tallow.
Plan Check is one of my very favorite restaurants in Los Angeles, located in West L.A.’s Little Osaka. If you’re hankering for a burger and fries, this is the place to go.
I recently took time out for another wonderful girl’s getaway in Southern California Wine Country with Emily Bartlett of Holistic Squid.
Just a couple days away. Long enough to chill out and forget about work for a little while. And drink a bunch of organic wine. It’s research, of course.
Have you ever gone camping on an organic dairy farm? I did — at the 2nd Annual Camping with the Cows event on Memorial Day weekend at Organic Pastures, the biggest raw milk dairy in the world.
Organic Pastures is an organic dairy farm in California where cows are on pasture 365 days a year.
I was trying to figure out where we should go for summer vacation and I just got some great news! My husband just got invited to speak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of this month. And guess who’s going with him?
Our third stop on the West Marin Oyster Tour was Hog Island Oysters.
Our second stop on the Marin Oyster Tour was Tomales Bay Oyster Company.
A couple weeks ago, I got an email from Elizabeth, owner of a small tour company called West Marin Food & Farm Tours, inviting me to attend an all-day oyster tasting tour in Sonoma.
Needless to say, I hopped on a plane immediately. :-) Seriously… a day-long tour of 3 oyster farms? Fresh oysters, local cheese and bread and wine — I was so there.