Yes, I’m being incredibly in-your-face promotional about next week’s Taste of the Nation Boston event, but you know that I wouldn’t flood my blog with things that I couldn’t care less about. In fact, this is something that I care a lot about. On April 19th, Taste of the Nation Boston will raise the critical funds necessary to [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
I bet you thought I wouldn’t follow through with my promise to continue my imaginary journey with the great Anthony Bourdain, should he ever decide to come back to Boston. Well, I know I took a while, but away we go. After a jaunt to the burbs, I’d get back into the city and head [...]
There are landmarks and tours and restaurants and parks and museums that we can visit in a city to really get a sense of its culture, its history, its cuisine. But there are other things that showcase a bit of its character – that can’t always be found in a guidebook – that also make [...]
One of my favorite parts of travel is being able to experience the everyday of another place because it’s different. There are cultures and rituals that aren’t my own, that strengthen my perspective. What’s more rare though, is being thrown into a time machine that takes me to a place that’s both far away and [...]
It’s that time of year when travel planning, at least for me, tends to slow down simply because from here through January all of my weekends, and most weeknights, are booked. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not forgetting about travel. My girls weekend crew and I are plotting our next move and Mike and I [...]
For the last 40 years Nova Scotia has given a Christmas tree to Boston to say thanks for the help it delivered following the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. Relief from Boston was the first to arrive the day after the devastating explosion and they were the last to leave. I attended the Boston Common Tree Lighting Ceremony for [...]
Thanksgiving for Mike and I brought more than just a long weekend of gluttony. It brought home friends who have moved far away. And they had a great idea for catching up that encouraged us to get adventurous, locally. The Blue Hills Reservation stretches through the towns of Quincy, Dedham, Milton and Randolph, MA just [...]
Some of us could never be landlocked. There’s just something about an unending horizon that makes you feel like you’re not alone, like we’re all connected by something, no matter how far away. What makes you feel connected?
