Two Writers, 50 States, Endless Stories
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 [...]
Posted in Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Stay, Wisconsin on Dec 10th, 2009
I’m a big fan of the fireplace. If my hotel room has a fireplace, I make time to sit in front of it no matter how much seeing and doing I’ve done all day. Forget Jacuzzi tubs. They take forever to fill and sound like an idling jet-engine. Go for the fireplace instead.
When I travel [...]
Posted in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Buy, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri on Dec 2nd, 2009
Rumor has it you need to buy a few gifts. So, while my usual path around the handmade paradise of Etsy.com is, oh, random, I figured I should take a more organized trip to help you out of your what to buy for… jam. So, here, some good gift items from around these here United [...]
Posted in Colorado, New Jersey, Three-fer Friday, Wyoming on Nov 6th, 2009
We all have our own ideas of the perfect winter getaway. For some people, it’s a tropical beach, far from the snow-covered driveway. (Whenever I say I miss snow, living here in Texas, my husband says, “That’s because you never had to shovel a driveway.” Which is true.) For some, it’s atop a ski mountain, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
