I won’t pretend the off-the-mountain moments topped the list of my memories from the trip. The standout event of my Ogden, Utah trip was, ski-gloved hands down, my long overdue return to board sports. Surgery for a shredded ACL, MCL, and meniscus can really mess with a girl’s head. So, Snowbird, I say hallelujah to [...]
Category Archive for 'Utah'
Sophia’s Luxury Sampler
Posted in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Stay, Texas, Utah on Feb 15th, 2010
Though I’m always game for a kitschy motel, I am not immune to the charms of luxury. Not at all, especially if someone else is paying, which is usually the case when I’m ensconced in 1,200-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets.
Virtuoso, a network of “if you have to ask you can’t afford it” travel agents, just released [...]
Handmade in the United States: A Gift Guide (From MT to WY)
Posted in Buy, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming on Dec 8th, 2009
You still haven’t finished your shopping?* What am I going to do with you? Well, get to it. Here, handmade goods from or about or somehow just having to do with states from Montana on through to Wyoming. (Hankering for the AL to MO set? I got your back.)
Montana: Hmmm, I may need to read [...]
Three-fer Friday: Shhh… We’re in Our Quiet Places
Posted in Arizona, Discuss, Go, Maine, New York, Texas, Three-fer Friday, Utah, Wyoming on Nov 13th, 2009
Once the holidays hit, finding a quiet moment can be–let’s call it–challenging. So, before we all get swept away, let’s take a trip to some extreme quiet. This week’s Three-fer Friday celebrates, to borrow Björk’s words, places that are “oh, so quiet [and] oh, so still.” Please take them along–or, of course, call up one [...]
Creatures Comforting: Animals That Charmed Us
Posted in Go, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Meet, Three-fer Friday, Utah, Vermont on Oct 16th, 2009
We’re animal people. It’s that simple. So, even when our trips don’t include horseback riding or dog mushing or some other animal-centered activity, we’re on the lookout for four footers (and monkeys, snakes, and a dolphin or two). Here, some critters that dazzled us along the way.
Joining us for this Three-fer Friday is writer Genevieve [...]
The Making of a Flyover American
Posted in California, Colorado, Go, Nebraska, New York, Utah on Oct 14th, 2009
In 1977, I took my first cross-country trip with two girlfriends. I was 19 years old and, except for 10 days in London when I was 15, I’d never left the East Coast. Actually, I’d barely been out of New York City. Partway through the drive, I started writing a letter to my brother documenting [...]
Lining Up Happy
Posted in Alabama, Alaska, Discuss, Do, Maine, New Jersey, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin on Aug 6th, 2009
Since writing about author Gretchen Rubin and her upcoming book The Happiness Project, I’ve been a now-and-again reader of her blog. A read of it today turned up a post about keeping a non-journal of one liners about happy times. Rubin writes: “Studies show that recalling happy times helps boost happiness in the present.” OK, [...]
Three-fer Friday: I Want to Go, er, Live There
Posted in Alaska, California, Colorado, Go, Massachusetts, Montana, Ohio, Stay, Tennessee, Texas, Three-fer Friday, Utah on Jul 24th, 2009
With apologies to Tina Fey for, above, bastardizing her character’s now famous line, here, the hotels/B&Bs/other-places-with-beds-that-aren’t-our-homes that we would like to move into permanently.
Jenna’s Picks
Few hotels–if any–merge whimsy, history, and upscale delights like Boston’s Liberty Hotel, which is partially housed in a former jail. I would spend my Saturday mornings doing Yoga in the [...]
Photographers Focus on the 50 States
Posted in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, See, South Carolina, South Dakota, States, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming on Mar 10th, 2009
The Works Progress Administration did it. Musician Sufjan Stevens has done a bit of it. Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey got a whole bunch of people to do it. And, of course, Sophia, Matt, and I are deep into our own version of it.
The it in question? Exploring, one by one, what makes each of [...]
