Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
This was supposed to be an article about skydiving in Ottawa but as often happens, the story I intend to write and the story that gets written is often wildly different. And oh my god, doesn’t that last sentence just sum up the last twenty years of my life. So, apologies in advance if you …
If you’ve ever asked yourself why visit Cape Breton when there’s a whole world out there, girl, I hear you. I asked myself the same thing for about twenty years. I was wrong about so much. Embarrassingly, eye-rollingly wrong. Cape Breton, as it happens, is the travel prescription you didn’t know you needed. So call …
It is not the locals responsibility to make sure you have the best day ever. You're not visiting Disney World. Venice is an ancient city with a long list of cultural and historical contributions to our planet. It is actually incumbent on you to prove your worthiness to visit.
This is a post filled with tips for travel with teens, or as I like to call it, making it through your next family vacation alive. Potato, potahto. Raising teenagers is the final frontier in parenting. If you can just get them through the next few years of their life and safely deliver them into …
Let’s be clear right off the top: “Tahiti on a budget” is a phrase that should come with a little wink and maybe a footnote. Budget is relative, especially when we’re talking about a collection of volcanic islands in the South Pacific where the water looks Photoshopped and a fancy drink can cost more than …
I’m a firm believer that there is no better way to acquaint yourself with a destination than through a guided tour. No one knows a destination better than local guides and if left to your own devices, the odds are good you’ll miss a lot, particularly if your timeline is tight. So when searching for …
1969 was a very good year for planet earth. We landed on the moon, our social consciousness was raised, and music was groundbreaking. It was also the year that those of us turning 50 were born, and let’s face it Gen-X is one of the coolest generations out there. Not ones to sit still, we …
When Ion, my partner of under a year, asked me if I wanted to go hiking in Italy with him, I looked him dead in the eye like a teen girl meeting a Jonas Brother, and enthusiastically said “Sure, sounds fun.” Sounds fun? Apparently love makes you crazy at any age. On the inside I …
