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What’s up next?

What’s up next?

Summer is here…finally… I teach full time at a community college in Sacramento, California. It’s a wonderful, rewarding job, but my favorite perk is that I get the whole summer off.  These days I actually need all that time off to stay sane–the combination of the drain of teaching, having two small kids (the younger [...]

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Get to Know Me: Tagged by Bringing Travel Home

Get to Know Me: Tagged by Bringing Travel Home

I have been tagged by Monique at Bringing Travel Home to participate in a blogging series–a blogger tags others with a set of questions so that we can get to know each other better. I have one word for that: fun. It’s a virtual chat among friends about our favorite topics. Here are the questions [...]

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Getting to Know Traveling Families: Caz and Craig Makepeace

Getting to Know Traveling Families: Caz and Craig Makepeace

As I continue my family travel series, I bring you an interview with traveling parents whose love of seeing the world is certain to continue despite the responsibilities of raising two small children. The travel blogging community is large and diverse, and two of its most visible bloggers are Caz and Craig of Y Travel [...]

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My Favorite Travel Blogs of 2011

In the world of travel blogging, I am probably a bit unusual– I don’t read many other travel blogs regularly. It’s not because I don’t want to; instead, it is because I just haven’t had much time this year. I did have a baby, so I guess I have an excuse! This sadly translates into [...]

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My ABCs of Travel

My ABCs of Travel

With my background in linguistics and 13+ years of teaching English under my belt, I can easily say that I’m a lover of words, sounds, and, of course, letters… so what better way for me to celebrate my love of travel than analyzing it through the alphabet? Thank you to Suzy, who writes one of [...]

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Moving to WordPress.org: Lessons Learned

Are you thinking about going self-hosted with your blog? I recently made the big blogging step of moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. During the process, I kept wishing there were more step-by-step guides for people like me (i.e. people who really don’t know what they’re doing). Now that it is over, I can breathe a [...]

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