For a while I never had a huge interest in going to Hawaii because I’m not much of a beach person. I love the ocean, but the thought the of lying on a beach doing nothing for large amounts of time makes me anxious. My former idea of Hawaii is totally skewed I know, there […]
Archive for June, 2009
For a while there my friends and I were doing Tuesday night dinners. We’d meet at someone’s house, cook dinner and chat – no TV, no background music, just ourselves. Crazy schedules have pushed us off track, but last Tuesday we got back into our groove, at least for a bit. We even ramped it […]
The second that Mike finishes his architecture exam tomorrow, which is one of many, we are making some travel plans. I can’t wait.
This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers! This month’s theme is “Looking Back” and we are to post something from when we first started blogging. It’s always strange to go back and read things you have written […]
I’ve been perusing Etsy the last few days because I am trying to convince my friend Bryce, the solo traveler, girlfriend getaway sidekick and talented designer, to get her own shop* and I need to make a good case. Look, she’s already got a great start with this travel shoe bag… [Taken by Bryce and […]
The Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism has been quite effectively getting the word out about Worldfest 2009. After hearing an ad twice in a row on two different radio stations one morning on the way to work, I decided it was time to see what all the buzz was about. Basically, they are promoting […]
Thanks to Peter Shankman‘s Help a Reporter Out, more commonly known as HARO, I was recently able to help myself out and get in front of a reporter writing a story on girlfriend getaways. In what I thought would be a quick explanation of the weekend trips I have taken with my girlfriends, the conversation […]
I made a great friend at my first job after college, Amy. Our contrasting personalities meshed in the best way instead of clashed, we took fun lunches, enjoyed wine on workdays and even partook in sophisticated tastings. We effortlessly broke out of the awkward binds of the traditional work-friendship and we even started doing double […]