December 19, 2013
You can download this guide over at GPSMyCity for the next time you’re in Perth! When you have just 24 hours in Perth, it’s easy to take the taxi to your hotel, dump your bags, grab some food at the hotel restaurant and sleep until you have to leave. Thanks to the excellent public transport, […]
December 5, 2013
I spent my first Halloween back in the States in Miami. It’s a city I’d never visited and I had an opportunity to fly down to join Brendan as he wrapped up a week-long work conference. That first afternoon I arrived, I had free time alone so I decided to head to Calle Ocho, or […]
October 23, 2013
Australia is a country known for its big things — fruit, animals, instruments. I saw a few of them while I lived there, including the Big Banana, Big Rocking Horse and Big Merino. I had no idea that Portland, Maine, which I visited for the first time at the end of September, also had its […]
September 2, 2013
Yesterday, we took our very first ride to the Hamptons to visit Montauk at the tip of Long Island. The sky was moody and the air chilly, but it never rained as the forecast had predicted. We sat at the beach for an hour watching the choppy gray waves as people sat around us bundled […]
December 27, 2012
Among all the recommendations people have given about my time in Australia, the recurring one has been to stay and sail in Queensland’s Whitsunday islands. The only problem is, it’s a friggin expensive trip. Return airfare for one person alone can cost $500. Staying on any boat that isn’t a backpacker-type, multiple-person dorm with lots […]
July 19, 2011
We weren’t sure what we were in for when we started down a dark dirt road resembling something out of horror movie. Daylight had faded four hours earlier when Brendan and I first headed north from Sydney. We just wanted to be out of the car with a glass of wine in our hands. When […]
