Category: Travel Stories

Paris

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Hemingway

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Traveling to Burgundy with Teenagers

Last summer I turned 50 and took my teenagers and my niece on my dream trip to Europe. So far, I have blogged about Venice, the Orient Express, and our road trip from Paris to Chateau Des Milandes in the Dordogne Region. At the end

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Venice: Land of Dreams

It’s been a really tough couple of years for our family, between losing my father to cancer, my best friend to suicide, and my husband to one of those mid-life crisis meltdowns that tries annihilate the entire family. At a loss for how to survive

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Magic on the Orient Express

Right now, tonight, on this moonlit night, I am dreaming of trains, and specifically the luxury train to end all trains: the Orient Express. I took my teens last summer and we aspired to create our own Golden Age of Travel…

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Book of Longings and an Incantation Bowl

I just finished reading Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel, The Book of Longings, and there were so many parts that struck me and inspired me. Her writing is beautiful and vivid, I want to swim in it. The way she writes enters my dreams and

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Look for the Rainbows

Rainbows and waterfalls nd poetry heal me, but the best part was spending time with the ones I love, creating memories that can never be taken away.

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Josephine Baker Hotel–the Ultimate in Glamour

AHHHHH!!! (Me screaming and dancing around my kitchen!) I can’t believe what I found in the Travel section of the NY Times today. Mike and Lucie Wood have discovered their B&B was once owned by one of my all-time heroes: Josephine Baker. They have designed

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