After a week volunteering in construction with San Lucas Mission in San Lucas Tolimán, the entire team headed to Antigua for one night, and my friend and I spent an additional two, enjoying some much-appreciated R&R before returning home. Antigua (the city not the country LOL) is a charming old Spanish colonial town, with lots … Continue reading
Yes, Venice is slowly sinking. This was reason enough for us to not delay a visit to this luxury jewel box of a city. “Unlike anywhere on earth,” is not an overstatement. Venice is a showstopper. I found planning for this part of our trip overwhelming from the start. After all, it’s Venice. There’s so … Continue reading
Less than an hour flight from Cluj, Romania and less than an hour drive from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where I’d just been is the city once the capital of the Hapsburg Empire, the stately city in a ballgown, Vienna. Continue reading
All things French Quebec City was everything we hoped for with a few surprises. Here’s our seven-day itinerary for visiting at ‘the most wonderful time of the year’! Continue reading
I found myself, by myself, with an excuse to visit a part of North Carolina I’d never seen. I attended a weekend training to learn Healing Touch a form of energy healing therapy. My secondary motivation was to check out the area, a short two-hour drive from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, to see if … Continue reading
Just a short time exploring the cobblestone streets of Lübeck, Germany is enough to soak in the culture of this once major trading center founded on the Baltic coast in 1143. One of the thriving medieval cities of the Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns which monopolized trade routes in the … Continue reading
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