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Sell the Jewels, Take the Trip
March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

My motto: Sell the jewels, take the trip! In 2018 I had a banner year–I lost my father to cancer, my best friend to suicide, and my marriage to infidelity. I didn’t know what to do to keep my head above water, so I decided to plan an epic bucket list trip for myself, my teenagers, and my niece. I spent so many nights dreaming of sleeping in castles and taking the ultimate luxury train through the mountains, that I…

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Dancing on Mt. Kilimanjaro
February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

And now, I have a marvelous treasure safely stored in a rainbow silk scarf, some fragile fragments of a certain palace, a palace so beautiful you can still see its reflections in the sky over Mt. Kilimanjaro when the light is just right.

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Dancing on Tables in Paris
February 14, 2021February 15, 2021

I don’t know why, but somehow, in my 20’s, I ended up dancing on many tables. As a professional belly dancer, I have been pulled up to dance on hundreds of tabletops, but I’m surprised how often I have ended up dancing on tables while incognito, traveling in my regular clothes. On our first night in Paris in 1995, we were exhausted from our long bus ride from London to Amsterdam to Paris, but we were in Paris, and we…

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Paris Tattoo
February 10, 2021February 10, 2021

I worked 5 jobs for 5 months to earn enough money to go on a Study Abroad in Paris in 1990. Once I was there, I wanted to get a tattoo on my ankle so celebrate my accomplishment. I pictured a future where people would ask me where I got my tattoo, and I would toss my hair in a nonchalant way and say, “Paris.” This was before tattoos were common and before google was invented. Tattoo parlors were difficult…

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The Red Phone at the Musee D’Orsay
February 5, 2021March 1, 2021

…and that red phone worked some kind of magic…

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A Night of Tomfoolery with Girls Marked Danger!
January 24, 2021January 24, 2021

It probably wasn’t the greatest idea to practice my Spanish with the border patrol…

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The Night Our Hotel Room Disappeared
January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

The Night Our Hotel Room Disappeared

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The Best Spicy Fairy Tale of All
January 15, 2021January 23, 2021

Here’s my spicy story of one night in Amsterdam…

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A Quirky Hat Shop on Candlemaker’s Row in Edinburgh
January 7, 2021February 12, 2021

When I travel, I can’t resist a quirky hat shop. While exploring Candlemaker’s Row in Edinburgh, I ended up in a hat shop called Rosie’s. My best friend, Kim and I, tried on hat after hat, taking on their personalities, from jaunty riding hats to French Riviera sun hats to Irish tweed newsboy caps. We decided new hats qualified as necessary purchases and we used Kim’s emergency credit card. (We paid it back later.) Kim was smart in her purchase,…

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