This is the hashtag I’ve been using over the last couple months on social media posts. As a personal travel planner, photographer, writer and wanderlust-filled traveler, it’s exciting to think about where you want to go on your next trip. I know some people don’t have a lot of time or money to travel, or don’t…
As I have now settled back into Midwest life after 7 weeks of travel, I stop and daydream of the places I recently had the good fortune to visit. People will ask me, “what was your favorite place in Italy?” I don’t know that I can really answer this. Of all the places I’ve been,…
Do you dream of Paris? I find myself doing this every now and again. After a conversation with a friend who was recently there for the first time and hearing her gush over it, I thought back to my one and only visit to the City of Lights… It was early June and I had…
Watching the video of how to get to Dimora del Bugiardo in the Valpolicella wine region of Italy is a lot of fun. I’m not sure who made the video, but I love it. I did have my doubts I would actually be able to find this agrirelais (a cross between an agriturismo and a…
Uh oh! An email from the owner of the hotel I was to stay at in San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy. He needed to close the hotel early for the season (summer) as his wife was about to have a baby. What did this mean for me and my reservation made a month ago? Well,…
I said I would be back and here I was. The first time I saw the Alpe di Siusi region of the Dolomiti (Dolomites), my mouth fell open…jaw-dropping holy s*** this is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. It really is that gorgeous. It was mid-June, it was green, the sky was blue and…
