Two Days in Savannah, Georgia A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her to agree to leave her bosom buddies [...]
A Short Trip to New Orleans with Teens (or Tweens) A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her to agree [...]
Best Things to Do with Your Tween for Two Days in Philadelphia A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her [...]
What to Do for One Day in Virginia Beach A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her to agree to [...]
What to Do for One Day in Austin A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her to agree to leave [...]
Visiting Las Cruces & White Sands National Monument A Stop on the Retro Advice Road Trip In the summer of 2011, I somehow convinced my almost 13-year old daughter to embark on a 50-day road trip in search of adventure, fun, and coming-of-age wisdom from women around the country. To get her to agree to leave [...]
The Retro Advice Mother Daughter Road Trip What advice would you give your teenage self? My girl and I were determined to collect as many answers to this question as we could on our cross country mother daughter road trip — AND have an adventure while gathering them. Woman have SO much to teach each other—and so [...]
Cool Things to Do in Santa Ynez Valley Ahhhh, a long weekend with a girlfriend sans disgruntled teenagers. The moment the plan was solidified, I starting searching for cool things to do in Santa Ynez Valley. Day 1—En Route from San Diego Even the joy of driving my manual transmission Mini-Cooper can't override my aversion to [...]
Munich at Christmas Time is Bucket List Worthy I had four compelling reasons to wander to Munich at Christmas last year: To feed my starvation for seasons with a feast of snow To place a check by “Munich’s Christkindlmarkts” in my 1,000 Places to See Before You Die book To travel back in time to a [...]
Back Again (Already) for More Solo Travel to Kauai My first experience with solo travel to Kauai happened one year ago—I came to the North Shore to heal (and it worked). I vowed to return for a refill every four months. This is my fourth time back. These wanders have been like none other. This place [...]
