https://www.shutterstock.com/g/ChaiyonS021 I think there’s something very glamorous about trains and from watching movies about the Orient Express I’ve always wanted to go on a major train journey myself. It harkens back to a time in the U.S. when that was the only...
This is Part 2 of my trip to Hong Kong. If you missed Part 1, please see the post here. I really love Hong Kong and I’ve always said that it’s the New York City of the East. It’s also the perfect blend of the traditional and the modern culture. As a huge fan of...
My mother is part of a travel club and she asked me if I wanted to go to Japan. I said yes immediately because it was on my bucket list. At the last minute they added Hong Kong for a nominal fee and that made it even better. This is Part 1 of my trip. I’ve broken it...
For my birthday this year, I went to St. Lucia in the West Indies. It had been on my bucket list forever because of the terrain. Mountains and volcanoes are my jam. There are trails in the rainforest leading to spectacular waterfalls too. I wasn’t going to go and one...
I started going to New York City when I was a little girl growing up in Connecticut. Every year my ballet school would take us to New York over the holidays to see the Nutcracker. They would give us these folding binoculars so we could see it up close from the...
Before the pandemic, I had the opportunity to visit the Fire Mountain Inn & Cabins & Resort in the Highlands of North Carolina for a solo vacation. I have to admit, it was a little scary. I had never gone on vacation by myself but I wanted to...