It’s a tiny town tucked away in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Asheville is a quaint community with loads of delicious restaurants and independently owned shops. The historic pinball museum is an educational and entertaining experience, and a unique opportunity since only three dozen or so similar locations exist in the U.S. Nearby is the…
Author: Heather Lusk
Destination: Williamsburg, a magical history tour
For those who love travel, 2020 is painful. It seems that for the next year the only vacation options may be domestic ones. Fortunately choices abound even if it means revisiting old haunts. Williamsburg is at the top of our family vacation list and it’s worth considering for families, couples or individuals. I’d visited Williamsburg…
Destination: Six Feet Away
Several years ago I watched the movie “Five Feet Apart” with my daughter. At the time I wondered how challenging it would be if your health depended upon staying six feet away from someone. And now here we are with Covid-19. The world is slowly reopening, some places more rapidly than others. Reopening certainly begs…
Destination: Quebec
Quebec City is lovely with its cobblestone streets, beautiful architecture and fantastic food. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. I’ve never actually been there. Next month I was planning to fly into Montreal then drive with my daughters to the famous walled city. There we would take a walking tour of the city, visit the…
Destination: Creativity!
Odds are good that if you have kids, you already have the makings of a makerspace. There are as many different types of makerspaces as there are ways to fill them. The goal of a makerspace is to promote hands-on creativity. Some boast high tech equipment such as 3D printers, high quality recording equipment and…
Destination: Isla Mujeres
Off the coast of Cancun lies the tiny Isla Mujeres Mexico’s Island of Women may be just a thirty minute ferry ride from the mainland but it feels completely separated from the resorts that comprise much of Cancun’s tourist area. Since the island is less than 5 miles long and 400 yards wide at its…
Bringing Tiny Ones into a Tiny House
Several years ago I wrote about a University of Richmond couple who had downsized to a tiny house. Soon after their move they learned she was pregnant with twins. They adapted the space for their new infants and planned to stay there even as the babies grew. What was most inspiring about the article was…
Destination: Spring Break 2020, the Chez-cation
Last month when the world began to shut down it was obvious that spring break 2020 was cancelled. It’s a decision that was out of everyone’s control but for a completely justified reason. As a response I created an article about an Extreme Staycation – or as I prefer a Chez-cation (from the French word…
Destination unknown…
“My favorite destination is the next one.” No other phrase perfectly encapsulates my travel philosophy. I’m notorious for sharing vacation ideas with my husband while we are vacationing elsewhere. At my worst I shared these ideas on our way to a destination. He politely asked me to focus on the moment. Now I refrain until…