Thanks for coming back for our third (and final) installment of my trip to Romania. Let’s set the stage (again)- A naive American girl from the suburbs takes a spur of the moment trip to rural Romania with a group of guys she hardly knows. On her journey she breaks toilets, cracks a sink open [ Read More ]
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Categories: adventure travel, Monday Morning Memories
The first time I had ever heard of red rock or of Arches National Park in Moab, Utah (pronounced Mo-Ab) was in 1989 when I saw a young Indiana Jones riding his horse past a precipitous rock formation. I was intrigued. How did those rocks do that? And was there really buried treasure in those [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Monday Morning Memories
Several years ago I took my first business trip to Las Vegas. It was the first of many trips to Vegas. I was still young in my career and learning the ropes of traveling alone. I was so excited to see Sin City! I walked up and down the Strip, took the monorail from resort [ Read More ]
Categories: Destinations, Monday Morning Memories
My first real trip out of the USA that I can remember (because I don’t count 5 hours in Niagara Falls, Canada or living as a toddler in the South Pacific) was to Monterrey, Mexico. My friends and I drove to Laredo, Texas (where I discovered that I never want to go through that kind [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Budget, Monday Morning Memories
I have traveled many places around Europe and most of them I want to return to someday. But there is a whole world waiting for me out there, and I don’t plan to do the same city twice until I have seen everything else in this world first. With one exception. Amsterdam! I loved every [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Destinations, Monday Morning Memories
My first and so far only trip to Paris took place just a few years ago. I was enjoying a Christmas BeNeLux trip with a few friends when the opportunity for a day trip to Paris came up. We didn’t even think about checking the weather first. We were staying at a flat in Brussels [ Read More ]
Categories: Destinations, Monday Morning Memories, travel, Uncategorized
I have been to the legendary Niagara Falls several times in my life. This picture was taken on my second trip. It is my only memory of taking the Maid of the Mist under the falls. I remember it was wet, fun, and full of laughter. And that my raincoat smelled pretty bad. But I [ Read More ]
Categories: Destinations, Monday Morning Memories
I forgot to share a Monday Morning Memory this week! Oops! So instead I’ll share it today. You’ll forgive me, won’t you? This week I was thinking about a trip I took several years ago to Romania. It was my second trip ever out of the United States. And certainly my first trip to a [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Destinations, Monday Morning Memories, travel
We’re going to start a new tradition here on the One Travel blog. Every Monday morning will feature a new post about a distant memory of a far off place *I* have traveled. Many of these will be tucked away, hardly known places. But hopefully they won’t be “hardly known” for long. When I was [ Read More ]
Categories: Destinations, Monday Morning Memories, travel
