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Coronavirus and Travell: What You Need to Know
This thing is real. Yes, the meme are funny on first glance, but when we consider over 114,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and over 3,500 deaths, world-wide, then, yes, the Coronavirus is more dangerous than influenza. The entire country of Italy is shut down....
{B! Fly} 10 Must-Have Goodies for International Trips: Spain Edition
I haven’t been traveling much this year because of a lot of work and personal time I’ve had to take off. But as I get ready to enjoy a much-needed 10-days journey to Spain, I'm reminded of all the mishaps I’ve made over the last 20 years of traveling to 32...
How to Spend 24-Hours in Madrid
Last August, my brother and I made a very spontaneous decision to chase La Vuelta, Spain’s pro cycling tour. 8 days out from an international trip means insane airfare, but we were determined to go. In order to make that happen without exhausting our coi...
How to eat Real Fancy in Boise: Go To State & Lemp
The modern concept of American fine dining comes with a preset of aesthetics and feelings, no longer simply the quality and relevance of the food. I remember a time when the only variable we considered was price and quality. And then social media, especial...
Dig This: Boise is More Than Potatoes. Yes, Really.
When friends and readers ask me which destination of all I’ve visited in the Sates has struck me the most, most recently my no-flinch response is “Boise, Idaho.” The super-flinch reaction is always a puppy’s duster-tail speed, double-take “did you say Boise?”...
The Lake at Donner Pass
My American history is not well-rooted in knowledge acquired in middle or high school. In fact, even most of my understanding of our Civil War and rights era was an intentional decision I made while studying politics at U.VA. I attended one of America's pr...
Atypical Lake Tahoe Or a Halting Stay in Truckee
Just when you think you've seen or heard it all, you end up in a place bearing a name worthy of a city council voting session. Or just when you're convinced you've graduated to the class of judging a book by its content and not its cover - -in this case, a...
Portland PDX Eats: A Perfect 4-Day Foodie Itinerary
One of my recent blog posts opened a conversation about the musings I found in 4.5 days while eating my way through Portland. I took my friend Bianca on a girls' trip to that west coast city to dig into their diverse culinary scence and other extracurriculrs a...
JetBlue Flies Commercial Flight to Cuba, the First in Over 50 Years and I Was Onboard
It was 11:58 am on Friday morning and I still had to park somewhere near 16th St. The Cuban Embassy, open for official government business only 15 months, closes at noon. I parked, illegally, and ran fast enough to burn off breakfast. I walked up to the ga...
Keeping Portland Deliciously Weird: A Seekender Duo’s Culinary Exploits
Of all the cities I’ve not visited in the U.S., Portland, OR has been on my active radar for a few years now. Mostly inspired by a fellow foodie I met on Facebook years ago, I had this insatiable desire to get to know this west coast diners' town. His bio on...
Purple, Hats, & a Sister: Stylish Biking in the City
I have forever been the butt of jokes amongst my siblings. From my jarring lack of sense of humor to my fashionable approach to style, which they've all agreed is just "too much," to my admittedly ridiculous (but not really) annoyance with less than perfectly ...
A Story About Cuban Food
I was at the Cuban Interest Office in Washington, just a few miles from where I live, speaking through a locked iron fence, asking the familiar guard the status of my Cuban passport. I applied for it 3 months prior and should have received it 6 weeks earli...
Eating Through Jackson Hole: A Whole Lot of Everything
If I've not convinced you yet to visit Jackson Hole, WY, then allow me to make another concentrated effort by teasing you with their food elaborate and well-thought out food scene. I was there last month to enjoy the virtuous wildlife and all things serene...
Exploring Jackson Hole {And Fighting Moose}
THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING AND I MUST GO - John MuirOne of the fun benefits of my job is being able to bring my family along with me when I travel. They’ve come to accept I travel a lot more than they, developing in them a long-absent curiosity on wh...
Live Nation in Mountain View, Kelly Clarkson Style
You'd probably be surprised if I told you I'm a classically frustrated artist. I was trained on cello and vocals, starting at 6. I played and sang all through high school and college. I was determined and convinced I was going to be a professional entertainer,...
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