Posts from the ‘Travel Review’ Category
Tweet Story by Randy Kalp. Photos by Bethany Salvon. Florence is a city that Beth and I have always wanted to spend more time in, despite the fact that up until last fall, we had only spent several hours exploring this Renaissance paradise. We finally got our chance in October, when we took up residence [...]
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Tweet Oh, Paris! I’ve camped along your waterways, been verbally trashed by your sexiest hostel slumlord and found peace in a 200 square foot apartment that looked out onto Henri Matisse’s pleasure den. Over the past two years, Beth and I have been fortunate enough to spend a number of nights in Paris. We fell [...]
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Tweet For years, I’ve wanted a moleskin notebook. That sleek black cover with its rounded corners and elastic closure calls to me every time we start planning a new trip. But time and time again I resisted the urge. See I realized a long time ago that I don’t like journaling–in the traditional sense that [...]
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Tweet The rain started light, as it often does in Manomet Beach–a small seaside community in Plymouth, Mass. Just a few teardrops from the menacing cinder clouds overhead, but nothing significant. For a second, the rain even backed off and the clouds cleared slightly, but this was clearly just the calm before the storm because [...]
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Tweet I waited until I passed the prying stares of the TSA to drop the kickboard of my new Micro Luggage onto the freshly waxed floor of Bradley International Airport in Hartford. Seeing the suitcase in its cruising state sent me into a world of excitement and nervousness. On one hand, this was one of [...]
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Tweet “The Web is dead,” or so Wired magazine declared in 2010. And do you know what killed it? (Hint: it wasn’t the radio star.) Apps! Yes, those little icons that make our retina display screens glow, because, as Apple’s famous saying goes, “There’s an app for that.” Now, maybe that title was a bit [...]
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Tweet Editors Note: This is the seventh review in an ongoing series that will highlight each property–hostel and hotel–we stayed at during The Hazy Shade of Autumn Tour as part of our partnership with the good folks at HostelBookers.com. Despite several years of Spanish language classes, I never had a strong desire to visit Spain, [...]
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