Legend has it that if you throw a coin with your right hand, over your left shoulder, into the Trevi fountain, it will ensure that you return to Rome. On our first trip to Rome in 2015, we made it a point to take a tour that would take us to the fountain. We returned Read more
There’s this scene in Eat, Pray, Love that has always resonated with me. I used to have this appetite for food, for my life, and now it’s just gone. I want to go some place where I can marvel at something. Language. Gelato. Spaghetti. Something. And then she books a flight to Florence and begins Read more
After our first two sea days, this cruise felt like it was going to go on forever. Not that that would be a bad thing. I wouldn’t have cried if this cruise never ended. When we hit Antigua, though, everything started to go into hyper motion. Days that lingered on a little long suddenly ended Read more
A few years ago, we started treating Grand Turk as a kind of bonus sea day. We don’t wake up early. We don’t rush off the ship. We don’t book tours. Any time we’re in Grand Turk, we set a later alarm, we have breakfast and we get off the ship once everyone else has Read more
If you asked me to list my favorite Caribbean ports, San Juan would be towards the top. To be fair, I’d probably have more than a few at the top, but San Juan would be up there. There’s so much that I love: I love that every building is a different color and I love Read more
