Alaska, here we come. In seven months, anyway. It wasn’t intentional. I mean, sure, I’d been eyeballing post-Labor Day flight deals, thinking maaaaaaaaaybe. Maybe it’ll be safe to travel by then. Maybe we’ll be vaccinated by then. Maaaaybe. But I still held off from...
It’s not every day that you celebrate being married to someone for twenty years. Marriage is generally not something I expect to take permanently–let’s say that the relationships that have been modeled for me are fleeting at best in many cases. But Mr. Pretty is stuck with me,...
Like most people who leisure travel on the regular, I’m jonesing to get on an airplane and . . . go somewhere. I’m also concerned about potential exposure to the novel coronavirus because I am not interested in contracting COVID-19, mild case or not. The last few days I’ve...
No matter where travel takes me, there’s always something that sticks with me long after I leave. In Venice, Italy it’s the sweet smell of the wisteria in spring. When I think of Buenos Aires, I think the incredible dinner and the new friends met at Casa Saltshaker. And in Bologna,...
It seems weird to think that Mr. Pretty and I had just come back from Jamaica at this time last month, and now the entire world is shut down in response to a global pandemic. While I’m entering my fourth week of working remotely (I’m referring to my dining room as my satellite...
Americans are all a-titter about the news that we’ll have to obtain travel authorization to head to countries in the European Union starting in 2021. This is not exactly new news–it was announced last year and has been in the works for years prior, all because the U.S. requires...
It was an unusual year for me, travel-wise. I switched jobs in January and couldn’t travel for the first four months of the year. And I did a full-on terrible job on my 2018 wishlist, only hitting Zurich. But hey, big deal, right? It’s a wishlist, not a mandate. That said, my 2019...
RyanAir scares the crap out of me. It’s not like I think the pilots or flight attendants are substandard (although they are surely an unhappy bunch). And it’s not like I think the planes are suddenly going to shake apart and send all of us hurtling into the sea (granted, there are...
It’s that time of year again–when various travel luminaries make their recommendations for the best cities to visit in 2019. Lonely Planet just put out an interesting list: Copenhagen, Denmark Shēnzhèn, China Novi Sad, Serbia Miami, Florida Kathmandu, Nepal Mexico City, Mexico Dakar,...
Swiss chocolate is one of the first things that popped into my head when I thought of Switzerland. So without my usual ridiculously specific itinerary to fall back on for Zurich, thanks to the last minute Prague-to-Zurich switcheroo, I let that first image be my guide. In other words, our...