Unique travel destinations can mean something different for everyone. What’s unique to you might be mundane to someone else. And that’s what we love so much about travel – the…
All You Need to Know About the Art of Contra Dance
Care to contra? Image by Flickr user Jack Mitchell. When home, it’s possible (though more difficult) to see the world around you from a traveler’s perspective. One’s native culture can seem nigh…
You Say We’re Different: Six Adorable Coastal Towns That Look Almost Exactly the Same (But Have a Lot to Offer on Their Own, Too)
Six towns on the East Coast you’ll love to love. One of the things I love about America’s east coast is the beautiful brick-lined coastal towns that make up our historic…
Boston: 10 Things I’ll Do In My New Home
Boston is Samantha’s to explore! Image from generationcitizen.org. I’m loving living in the Boston area again, so instead of thinking about all of the things I wanted to do but…
Florida to Massachusetts, Take Two: What Was I Thinking?
Samantha muses on road trip deja vu. Image from Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know why I thought that driving twice from Florida to Massachusetts would be easy, fun, or comfortable….
Florida to Massachusetts, Take One
Samantha’s road trip brought her up the East Coast to her new home of Massachusetts. Image from panoramio.com. Thirty hours on the road and 16 states later, I have hauled…
Visiting (not) Thoreau’s Walden.
Visiting Walden Pond, where the famous American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau wrote his treatise Walden, or Life in the Woods—especially on a hot, sunny Saturday morning in early summer—is about…