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It’s iconic. We also see the canals FULL of tourists in their gondolas. Don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful. But….I tend to go with the less “typical” ways to experience local life.   That’s why I was all about finding the traghetto station on the Grand Canal and try it out for...

The perfect travel experience. We all want it. And there are endless ways to get it. A backpacking trip. A luxury cruise. A well planned out itinerary. Seeing highlights and sights of your destination. The list is endless. But when we think of small group travel, some of us think...

I saw this really cool travel journal for way too much money back in 2007. It had headings on each page: Destination, Dates, Accomodations, Traveling Companions, Highlights. Then I saw this cute little “Travel Journal” with blank pages. And being that I am able to actually write,...

RoadTrips to: MOROCCO – SPAIN – PORTUGAL…soon to GREECE & ITALY! I’m glad you asked! But you probably already have an idea or have done one yourself and you just didn’t know. A GO LOCAL! RoadTrip is designed like we would do with a bunch of friends – pick...

 At Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco I do most of my travels alone. Whether it is to remote places in the Philippines, to trapsing across the globe to places like Turkey, Morocco, Italy, London, and so on, there are certain things I consciously do to make sure i’m safe as...

What is a TRAVEL EXPERIENCE you ask? Simply put, a Travel Experience is a travel itinerary with a group no more than 10 people. Why only 10 people? Because any more than 10 starts to get cumbersome and feels disconnected. With a smaller group, we are able to go to places large...

When I was in Italy last, I had happened upon a painter in a small piazza (square) in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Her name was Susan Monk and she was a Kiwi from NZ who studied in Chicago and ended up in Tuscany – how magical is that? The pieces I bought were very small –...