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THE ROUTE (featured stops highlighted in bold): Duluth > Billings > Bozeman > Yellowstone > Seattle > Olympic National Park > Portland > Hood River > Boise > Salt Lake City > Boulder > Fort Collins > Twin Cities > Duluth For the second year running, April was our travel month (so that officially makes it a […]

Vignette [vin-yet] 1. any small, pleasing picture or view. 2. a small, graceful literary sketch. 1.)    In 2010, I trekked to Everest Base Camp. Almost. During a six month backpacking odyssey, my now-husband & I decided to go trekking in Nepal. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t think about those mountains – my idea of heaven! We made it to nearly 17,000 feet […]

This is a place with a sea salt breeze, rubber kelp strands, and terra cotta sand where the tide runs in rivulets. A place where robin’s egg paint peels away from dinghies docked on the promenade, and where an old lady in a pink sequin beret strolls with her husband in the hazy spring sun. […]

There comes a time in every young woman’s life when the ol’ blog well dries up, and blog posts veer into bottom-of-the-barrel territory. This is not one of those moments. Because today, I am fully disclosing crumpets in all their British gastronomic glory! Certainly this warrants a resounding “Huzzah!” from the peanut gallery – that’s […]

Here I am, typing to you from a cozy pub apartment in the rollicking Welsh countryside. It’s like coming home in some ways, but in other ways I will always be just a little bit dopey and out of my element in the UK. The laundry detergent bottles feel fun sized in my jumbo-accustomed American […]