So. many. cats! And so much blue. What a dreamy place this is. In keeping with having life revelations each time I’m in Paris, I dramatically decided what I want to do with my life and thought of a book idea in this very cemetery. I had planned to also visit Père Lachaise but I was just too tired and couldn’t physically cram another thing in. After seeing this beauty, it’s at the top of the list for my next…
Oh, Florida. This is the last of the posts for this trip and it makes me feel like I need to go back. I love the sunshine, water, the incredible views of both, St. Augustine, old graveyards, Spanish moss, alligators, Disney, the food (Maple Street Biscuit Co and Harry’s…omg), the family. It just feels like home to me and I’ve missed it since we moved away when I was 10. Kayaking the canal behind my parent’s house was the most…
We almost didn’t stop here because of the outrageous cost to get in but I’m so glad we did. We were able to save a few bucks by buying tickets at the hotel we stayed at the night before and you definitely need an entire day to see everything. Two pictures up from the bottom is a space shuttle launch pad and the fence around it is curved outward because alligators can climb chain link fences. I did not know…
On the morning of writing this post I had to scrape ice off my car. In APRIL. And it’s so cold in my house that the butter on my kitchen counter won’t soften. How am I supposed to do anything, involving butter or not, if the butter on my counter won’t get soft? I feel like I really got stuck on the wrong side of global warming. So because of these things, it was both dreamy and painful to look…
The Ernest Hemingway Home is so high up on my list of favorite attractions I’ve visited that it just might be at the very top. The beautiful house is on a large, lush space of land that is larger that you’re used to finding in the relatively small town of Key West. And that pool! He also used to have a cat walk that ran from the upper floor of the back porch on the house out to his writing…
In my defense, it was a trip for my 30th birthday. Oops, did I say that out loud? Originally I was thinking of going to Disneyland in California but then decided it wasn’t quite big enough for the big 3-0. I did a little research on flights to Paris and found some via Icelandair for $600 per person round trip and got Joe on board. We found an affordable Airbnb (the studio we stayed in is here) and suddenly my dream…
Well… I booked a trip to Paris for my 30th birthday in January. I have to admit that even before I bought the plane tickets and reserved an apartment I had a running list in my head of things to do on my next visit and as soon as my trip was confirmed I started planning even more. My souvenir list is almost out of control and I still have four and a half months to go. A few of…
Back in April I went on a work trip to Wisconsin and Illinois for the 10-year-anniversary of the company I work for. I never thought I would ever have a job that I would get to travel with and while my job, per se, doesn’t involve travel, the company is based in Wisconsin and I work in a satellite office. I flew out there for a week of training and I went again in April. It looks like I’ll be…
Food: the most important part of a trip to the South! When I said the only thing I would miss about the South after moving would be the food I had absolutely no idea how true that would be. On the up side, I’ve learned to cook my favorites myself. Waffle House: raisin bread, cheesy scrambled eggs, city ham, hash browns with onions, ham, and gravy, and sweet tea: J. Christophers: shared oreo pancakes, eggs benedict, grits, banana bread pecan…
Oakland Cemetery gets huge points from me for having a visitors center and gift shop. A GIFT SHOP. In a cemetery. This should be mandatory and I will work all of them. A few issues here. !!! Natural vignetting SNOW. It was freezing, raining, and snowing by the time we got here. We saw much of the cemetery by car except for a quick little run-around when I got out to visit the gift shop. I really hope I get…