best things to do in charleston: the 500 year old Angel Oak on Johns Island

Charleston’s Charms

I always knew that I would like Charleston. Something about the historic sprawling homes, abundance of fresh oysters, warm weather and pimento cheese spread speaks to me at a very deep level. If anything, I worried...

Plan a Road Trip: budget and resources for a Southern US road trip

Southern US Road Trip: Budget & Resources

It feels like just yesterday we were writing a similar summary about our Balkans Road Trip. It’s been a season of road trips around here, a travel format that took us way too long to discover. Now we just can’t get...

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The Insatiable Charm of New Orleans

All of our photos of New Orleans are of houses. I want to use lots of cliched words about the houses in New Orleans – colorful, charming, grand, just a little off-kilter. But it’s not the colorfulness of...

Visit Forth Worth: The legendary longhorn cattle in the Fort Worth Stockyards

Visit Fort Worth: 5 Can’t Miss Activities

I will admit, it never crossed my mind to visit Fort Worth, Texas. But when good friends moved there recently, and sang its praises, we knew we’d soon be there to see for ourselves. Fort Worth is what I expected...

austin city: street art in Austin, Texas

Eating It All In Austin City Limits

One morning I looked around our stylishly renovated RV, snug in the privacy of a backyard, shopping bags from ironic-yet-expensive boutiques shoved in the corner, the remnants of our last food truck meal strewn...

Best of 2016: Our year in travel, month by month

Looking Back to 2016

Is it too late for one more ‘best of 2016’ list? Last week my inbox was overflowing with reflections on 2016, and I couldn’t get enough. But here we are, a few days into the new year, and I’m just...