First Date: Toledo, Spain
On my first stay in Spain, over twenty years ago, I was living at my friend’s flat in Madrid, only a quick jaunt to Toledo by car and an easy 35-minute train ride from the Atocha station. In those...
View ArticleGlass-ology: A #FriFotos Gallery from My Translucent Travels
This week I have happily joined the #FriFotos team on Twitter as a cohost, and even contributed the suggestion for the theme! So you can imagine all of the sifting and sorting I’ve been doing of the...
View ArticleInteractive Travel: When in Rome…What Would You Suggest I Do?
So I’m traveling again, as is evidenced by the lack of blog postings. [insert sheepish grin here]. One would think the result would be more blog posts but my whirlwind trip through Germany was so...
View ArticleSouvenirs – Coveted and Collected Memories from Our Travels #FriFotos
Ahhh don’t we love the contributions of the French? Croissants, romantic accordion music, water lilies, the Statue of Liberty, expert flirtations, and stolen vocabulary. The word “souvenir” means “to...
View ArticleMaui and Kauai: Traveling with a New Companion – My Droid Maxx (with Panorama!)
I am decidedly UNtech-y, but oh so photo trigger happy. It is the camera feature of my new phone that I wanted to try out and continue to do so. Of course I broke it in on my recent Hawaii trip....
View ArticleRomancing Emilia Romagna – with a Big Bib!
An added bonus on a food foray in Italy is the setting. The Italians must have studied our films and been inspired to plant cypress trees in rows and geraniums in clay pots under trellises of grape...
View ArticleTaking the Lake Tahoe Curves in the New 2016 Kia Sorento
I was recently invited to have a turn at the brand new 2016 Kia Sorento on the wildly beautiful winding roads of Lake Tahoe. This was my first ‘ride and drive’ with Kia, and I must say, they take...
View ArticleIconic Iceland: Favorite Moments Captured on My Lumia Icon
Spontaneous Travel I knew the Nokia Lumia phone was coming to me. As a member of the buzzing team of worldwide Verizon ambassadors invited to try out different phones and devices, that was happily...
View ArticleRecipe: Erbazzone – Bringing Italian Cooking Home!
It was a whirlwind week of almost too much Italian food….almost. Continuing on our intimate food tour, we sampled and savored prosciutto, culatello, authentic Parmigiano Reggiano, and an array of red...
View ArticleCelebrating Star Wars in London at SWCE
Most of us remember where we were when we first experienced…… STAR WARS. For me it was at the Avco Cinemas in Westwood. It was 50 cents more than the other Westwood theater options but we were...
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