Here are 10 fun things I found online in November of 2023. Movies Rolling Stone‘s nostalgic oral history of the movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. With the new release of The Boy and the Heron, we’ve been getting our Ghibli on lately, and who hasn’t fallen absolutely in love with …
How to Spend a Week in Budapest
If you’re like me and your life revolves around every possible moment you get to spend within Old World elegance, then Budapest is your place. Stick with me as I walk you through a week’s worth of activities and vacation ideas full of history, opulence, and splendor. And consider making Budapest your next destination! Before …
Our Autumn Road Trip in New England
Even though I grew up in Virginia, where we got our fair share of autumn every year, a part of me always wanted to go to New England to visit/see autumn/live. I remember exactly how this fantasy started: We got a magazine in the mail that had one tiny photo of the region all decked …
How to Spend a New Orleans Weekend
Forty-nine years ago, my boyfriend’s parents celebrated their honeymoon in New Orleans. Last week, they invited him, his sister and brother-in-law, and me to join them there for their anniversary. What fun! I was not accustomed to traveling with a group, and particularly not one I like so much. We had a blast. My first …
5 Days in Montana: A First-Timer’s Guide
Our trip to Montana was a bittersweet one–a breathtaking journey through wild and desolate lands, punctuated by melancholic ruminations of my dear little brother, whose funeral we held the night before. This trip was truly an adventure because I had no idea what to expect from it. The mental image I had of Montana was …
Our Virginia Road Trip (Finally!)
This past autumn, we finally got to take the Virginia road trip we had originally planned for 2020. The Fan District We began our trip at our AirBnB in Richmond’s beautiful, historic Fan District. With such a convenient location, we were able to walk to various historic sites and great dining. I may just make …
Lookbook: Brooks Brothers on Monument Avenue
When I spotted this beautiful plaid sheath in autumn colors from Brooks Brothers, I just knew I had to have it. I had been planning an autumn-themed photo shoot with Hunter Henkel on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue for our Virginia road trip, and the colors were the absolute ideal for it. So how did it …
18 Snacks to Try from Greece
My second month with Universal Yums came from a country that shares a border with my first month’s country. I was a little disappointed by that because I really hoped it would bounce around the world a bit more. A few of the snacks were very similar two months in a row. But that doesn’t …
20 Snacks to Try from Turkey
I’m a fairly adventurous eater, so when I learned there was a subscription service that would send you a box of snacks from different countries every month, I had to try it out! Universal Yums offers three subscription sizes, and I got the biggest one, which is $41/month, but absolutely loaded with different kinds of …
My Nostalgic Virginia Travel Guide
We were supposed to be in Virginia this week, seeing autumn. We were going to take a lovely road trip where I showed my boyfriend all the beautiful places I could remember from my childhood, set against a colorful, fall-flavored backdrop. But then the pandemic happened and threw off everyone’s entire year. There were so …