When we travel close to home, most of us are after a quick and comfortable get-away to a familiar and beloved spot. Human nature draws us time and again to places we like, locations where we feel at home – even when we’re trying to get away from home. Although we may make a major [...]

We travel, in part, to discover what’s unique in other areas of the world. These differences excite us, bring us to life, and cause us to keep traveling to find more. They’re also what cause people to journey from other parts of the world to our own, seeking the same. The close proximity of a [...]

Travel equals exploring the unknown and the exciting. Visting regions that differ from our own means witnessing new ways of life, navigating unknown languages, acclimating to different diets and coping without the comforts of home. Flying off and landing on foreign ground – this is travel. Most of the time, anyway. What about traveling to [...]

When I was a little girl, I would arise very early each Easter Sunday for the purpose of crouching and crawling my way through the house in search of multi-colored hardboiled eggs smashed between sofa cushions, thrust into the fireplace, and rolled under beds. It was not just a privilege but a duty to collect [...]

A long time ago I chose my current location with purpose, yearning for somewhere prettier than where I lived, a new home that was better, more exciting. More me. Moving across the country I found it here, just as I knew I would, amidst the dichotomy of bucolic hills of green mixed up with the [...]

Is Spring sputtering to life, its heart filled with plans of green ground, blue sky and warm air? In my spot on the world map, I believe the answer to this question is no. In southern New England, where I dwell, it is far too early for true springtime. However, for many days March has [...]