Pick a pumpkin or dance with el diablo! Image by Flickr user Susan Sermoneta. The fall is always a great time to travel. The change in seasons usually means fewer crowds,…
Bruges on a Budget
Delicate chocolates and lacy Florentines, rows of gingerbread-esque houses, swans silently gliding in canals, and chunky cobblestones as far as the eye can see. If you want your European trip…
So Sweetzerland
I consider Switzerland my second home. I lived in the francophone Geneva for two years and loved every minute of it. Geneva is such an international city, home to the…
Chocolate Cusco
After a confusing early morning flight from Arequipa (confusing because the plane skipped a scheduled stop of the flight and landed an hour early in our final destination of Cusco),…
Chicago: The City That Smells of Chocolate
We’re on the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s river tour looking at the Willis Tower (which will always be the Sears Tower to me, by the way). And suddenly, the smell is…
Barcelona: The City of Yiddish Proverbs
My grandmother, replete with Yiddish proverbs, had left a message on my phone. The content, “Man plans, and God laughs.” As a woman of a few words, she keeps her…
Seattle
Seattle was quickly becoming a weekend escape from my life in Chicago, and I was looking forward to my visit with Alejandro. It was almost one year since I visited…
Girls’ Date Out: Philadelphia
Fellow Go Girl Erica and I made it through Valentines Day 2010 with not a boyfriend in sight. With hers in Germany and mine in Afghanistan, we were about to…