Responsible Travel

Travel Tips from a Travel Blogger

Travel should be exciting, fun, a luxury, and a vacating of your norm … But often travel plans are accompanied with lots of questions, and a little stress! I’ve been writing/blogging about travel for almost 3 decades… yes, I started before social media and #travelblogging even existed! So I have learned a few tricks, hacks, dos and don’ts, several of which …

Beautiful Cities Overcrowding with Tourists

You are so excited for your European luxury vacation to___(fill in the blank). Insert: Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Venice, Florence, Prague, Rome… You arrive in, let’s say Venice, with grand expectations for viewing ancient architecture, tasting time-honored traditional cuisine, and meeting locals, deciphering their native language – only to discover buses, mega cruise ships unloading waddling passengers, throngs of foreign tourists …

US National Parks to Explore

Behold this nation’s vast, beautiful, preserved park system, yours to explore! America has designated 63 national parks, from Alaska (home to 6 of the top 7 largest parks, and 8 total) to the Florida Keys and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 30 states plus 2 US territories. In total, there are 423 national park “sites” which also include monuments, seashores, preserves …