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Returning to Zion: This Time With My Son
We are going back to Zion! Every summer, my son Nick and I take a trip together, just the two of us. What started as a simple way to carve out time together has quietly become one of my favorite traditions.…
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A Food Lover’s Guide to Virgin Voyages Dining
Cruise food rarely lingers in your memory. After years spent traveling and chasing great meals around the world, cruise dining usually falls into a predictable category: big buffets, crowded dining rooms, and food designed to feed thousands of people quickly rather…
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The Cruise That Changed My Mind: A Virgin Voyages Review
Let me start with a confession: cruising and I have had a complicated relationship. I’m a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants traveler. I like open-ended days, wandering side streets, and deciding what’s next over coffee that morning. And don’t get me started on the excursions…
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One Week Later: Southern Caribbean Ports with Virgin Voyages
It has been one week since returning home from this Southern Caribbean cruise with Virgin Voyages, and the perspective that comes with a little distance has only deepened my appreciation for it. This trip kicked off the “2026 Travel Season” that…
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How I Pay for Travel: Points, Cash, and Tradeoffs
At some point, when you travel often enough, people stop asking where you’re going and start asking how. “Where are you going this year?” is often one of the first questions I hear when I sit down to catch up with…
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Why 2025 Was the Right Year to Begin
It was time. 2025 was the year this blog began—but not the year the story began. For a long time, travel and food lived side by side in my life without needing an audience. Trips were planned, meals were cooked, recommendations…
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The Perfect 3 – 5 Days London Itinerary
London is one of those cities I keep returning to — six visits and counting — but a few years ago I finally experienced it through fresh eyes when I traveled with family members who had never been before. After that…
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🇫🇷 When Paris Plans Fall Through… I Make Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon
This Thanksgiving was supposed to look very different for us. My son and I had planned a quick trip to Paris — built entirely around seeing his favorite band play there — and we added a day trip to Normandy so…
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A Tennis Fan’s Guide to the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells
Tennis is my second passion, right behind travel, and it’s taken me all over the world — including two trips to France just to catch Roland Garros in person. This spring, I swapped Paris clay for desert sunshine and headed to…
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A Day In Bryce Canyon
✨ Part of my Zion & Bryce adventure series:If you’ve been following along, this is the third stop on my Utah journey — a day trip to Bryce Canyon that capped off my time in red-rock country. On my second full…