Intelligent Packing: What Questions Should You Be Asking?
You’re packing for an overseas trip, and you want make sure you only take the essentials. This list of questions should help you hone your packing skills and cull your […]
Off the Beaten Path: Kilburn
County: North Yorkshire I thought I might start highlighting some of the towns I recommend when I’m telling folks about travel in England. You may already know that I lived […]
A London Guide for the Uninitiated
by Joe Thomas There are so many tourist attractions to see in London that it is best to plan out what you want to visit ahead of time, so you […]
Travel Pet Peeves
I don’t normally talk about travel in negative terms, but there are just those times! You know, the time your flight was canceled and you were reticketed in the middle […]
Full English Deconstructed
England is always on my mind, no matter whether I’m charging my FitBit or baking bread. When I first moved to England, I baked bread every week. We never had […]
My Top Ten Travel Packing Tips
The next class I’m teaching at University of Texas Informal Classes is Travel Packing. This is a three hour class that is jam packed full of ideas for minimizing what […]
The Month after the Month Before
It’s taken me a couple of months to get my feet back on the ground after my lovely trip to the UK 2016! In case you missed the blog post […]
England 2016 – Finale
June 11 – Saturday We had to leave Tintagel by 7 to get to the Enterprise Car Rental by 9 when they opened, so we missed Peter’s wonderful breakfast. Instead, […]
England 2016 – Tintagel
June 8 – Wednesday Today is Cornwall day! Tintagel! Coastline! My favorite B&B!!! It didn’t take long to get to Tintagel – about an hour and a half. It’s so […]
England 2016 – From North to South
June 3 – Friday We left Knaresborough around 9:00 am heading North toward Hadrian’s Wall. On the way, we stopped by a landmark known as the Angel of the North […]