Summer – are you already over? Ever since I can remember, fall has been my favorite season. But after summer 2021, I am starting to reconsider. In early June, I met my dear friend Danielle from D.C. in her hometown of Phoenix. It was HOTTTTT. Enjoyed seeing her childhood home, high school, church and college (ASU), visiting with her parents…
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Travel in the Time of COVID: Trading the Beaches of Colombia for Snow at the Grand Canyon
Planning international travel in the time of COVID has its risks, but after foregoing a big trip in 2020, I was longing for my next adventure. I had hoped that things would have normalized enough by the beginning of 2021 that I would have no problem traveling to a country that had (1) either no testing or 4+ day advance…
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Let’s Try This Again…
A few years back I started a travel blog…and I promptly forgot about it. Using social media to post travel pics and updates was just SO much faster/easier. However, it’s a new year and I have walked away from Big Social, so this website will now be my outlet for sharing pics and tidbits from my journeys both afar and…
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Lessons Learned – Morocco
No trip is perfect. Despite hours of thoughtful planning and packing, there are so many variables involved with travel that are completely out of our control. Even though it was wonderful, my recent trip to Morocco was not my smoothest. Below are some of the lessons I learned this time out. Make Sure to Request Airline Notifications by All Methods…
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Morocco in Movies
I finally made it to Morocco – a trip I have wanted to take for years. Morocco has always stirred up images in my mind of marketplaces filled with spice merchants and exotic entertainers, hilltop casbahs, djellabas (robes with pointed hoods), colorful tagine pots and, of course, camels. The main source of many of these images of Morocco is probably…