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…
Category: Travel
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…
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…
Destination: Asheville
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…
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: 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: 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…
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…