I’ve been very, very eager to travel again. Serious, anxiety-driven, desperation to travel. I’m on several travel mailing lists, and if you think that deals and travel incentives stopped during the pandemic you’d be wrong. In fact, the deals seemed to increase. I’ve seen $49 tickets to California from the Midwest, $250 business class seats…
Author: Heather Lusk
Destination: Iceland’s Golden Circle
Iceland has many great things to see, but for anyone with limited time who wants to see some unique sights quickly, The Golden Circle is a perfect route. Why Iceland? I’m always in search of a good travel deal. A cheap flight is initially why I jumped on an opportunity to visit Iceland several years…
Destination: Will the real Copacabana please stand up?
Ahh, the beautiful sand, the sun, the mountains in the distance towering over Rio de Jañeiro… Wrong Copacabana. My Copacabana destination is on the border of Peru and Bolivia. Like its Brazilian counterpart it’s also located on a shoreline – Lake Titicaca – and surrounded by mountains – the Andes. And let’s be clear, this…
Destination: Laptop
It’s no surprise that travel addicts are frustrated with 2020. It also shouldn’t be a surprise that those who rely upon us travel addicts are also hurting. Airlines, hotels, convention centers, restaurants, and anyone globally who has a stake in the travel industry has been impacted by people not traveling. Some have switched to other…
Destination: day trip to South Sweden
To visit Copenhagen and not spend a day in Sweden would be like visiting New York City without leaving Manhattan. It’s so close, so easy to explore and a perfect day-long adventure for any type of traveler. South Sweden is filled with small towns, rural countryside and forests. Castles, medieval architecture and windmills are sprinkled…
Travel in the time of Covid
Normally fall is an ideal travel time. Leaves are turning, weather is cooler. Usually kids are ready for a break from school, and the entire family is in need of a little time together. This year, traveling in the time of Covid, about half of that is still true. The weather is comfortable, leaves are…
A haunting we will go (promo below!)
For the past few months I’ve been consumed with one event: GhostWalk. It’s an annual event that I organized last year for the first time with a contingent of volunteers. Then in 2020 I found myself needing to manage the bulk of it myself. That included directing, script writing, props, costumes, sets, stage management and…
Destination: Wonderful Copenhagen
In the Danny Kaye movie “Hans Christian Andersen,” he sings about a “salty old queen of the sea.” I loved the song as a child. The tune describes “Wonderful Copenhagen,” a town that seemed magical to me. Any place that could inspire Andersen’s fairy tales must be magical, right? The city doesn’t disappoint: a castle…
Football free fun in Green Bay
Avoiding football in Green Bay is a near impossibility. Streets are named for players, signs remind visitors that it’s Packers country, even the museum has a Lego reproduction of Lambeau Field. A long weekend there (pre-Covid) was far from football, focusing on family fun instead of the field. Neville Museum The Neville Public Museum was…
Finding Vintage Treasures
There’s something very satisfying about purchasing and finding a vintage treasure, something that has history, that has a story of survival. In the Midwest it can be difficult to find these types of interesting pieces. Flea markets are usually a great place to discover treasures. But aside from Shipshewana in Northern Indiana and the…