It’s happened often. I’m on a trip and I hear a popular song a few times. It’s not necessarily a song I like, but years later when I hear it, I’m instantly transported back to that location including the memories, [...]
You can find a ton of information on the top tourist spots in Istanbul so I’m not going to go into deep detail about the ones we hit, which were the Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia, the Grand Bazaar [...]
When you’re tagging along on your significant other’s business travel, there are many times you have got to venture out on your own. You can only spend so much time in your hotel room raiding the mini bar and watching [...]
The Gothic Quarter of Barcelona is a maze of narrow streets, medieval architecture, tiny bars, and shops. It’s mysteriously beautiful and confusing, especially if you have the directional sense of a bar of soap like I do. So when I [...]
When I was a kid, three of my aunts had souvenir spoon collections. I recall asking my mom why my aunts didn’t use them for eating instead of hanging them on a rack. I don’t recall my 6-year-old self getting a [...]
Vacation rentals (or short-term rentals) accessible through sites such as VRBO and Airbnb are increasingly popular. I will never shun a hotel-stay experience, but I’ve grown to love the vacation rental for longer stays because they give you an idea [...]
Steve gets to travel for work much more often than I do. However, through a quirky kind of luck, a couple of opportunities I’ve had for work travel have frankly blown all of his away. Most notably, on one of [...]