I’m an AirBnb fanatic. I almost never stay in a hotel room anymore if there’s an AirBnb option nearby. For starters, AirBnb is almost always comparatively priced if not cheaper than a hotel room, and it often comes with better amenities like a private pool or a full kitchen. It’s also a great option for traveling with a dog. I’ve found AirBnbs to be way more flexible in allowing pets than most hotels, and they don’t come with the added…
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One of my best friends recently tied the knot, and he did it on a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise. Talk about getting married in paradise! I’ve never been on a cruise ship in my life, so although I was obviously overjoyed for my friend and his partner, I have to admit I was nervous about how the whole thing would go down. For starters, I usually get super anxious when I’m cooped up anywhere for too long. I worried that…
I first heard about City Island on an episode of ‘Parts Unknown’ (isn’t Anthony Bourdain the best?). The episode was about The Bronx, but all of a sudden our boy Tony was sucking down lobster tails at a crab-shack-looking place with a bunch of docks in the background. A fishing village in The Bronx? I had to know more. I looked up City Island and learned that it’s a small island community just a mile and a half long in…
You remember The 5 People You Meet In Heaven, that book everyone was raving about ten years ago where the guy gets crushed to death by a defective carnival ride? Well I’ve been thinking about it ever since, except my version feels less like an inspirational parable and more like a panic attack, and smells like peanuts. I call it: The 5 People You Meet On An Airplane. No matter where you’re going or how much you’ve paid for that…
When John and I started thinking about where we might want to go on our honeymoon, we had a few criteria we wanted to hit: Somewhere warm, since our wedding was in the middle of winter Somewhere we wouldn’t normally be able to just pack up and go Somewhere that wouldn’t take an insanely long flight to get to Somewhere relatively affordable After doing some research (aka me listening to John read off posts from Lonely Planet), we narrowed it…
The city is an amazing place… but it’s also an exhausting one. From the traffic to the noise to all. of. the. people, sometimes you just need to get out! For me this happens at least a couple times a month. When cabin fever (shoebox apartment fever?) strikes, here are seven of my favorite places to get away from it all. All of them make for an easy day trip, and the majority of them are accessible even without a…
It’s been a whirlwind around here lately. I spent this past weekend in the Catskills celebrating my birthday, and the weekend before that had a few friends in visiting from out of town. I can’t believe I haven’t yet had a chance to share the highlight of my month: my bachelorette party. When my closest girlfriends brought up getting the ball rolling on planning a bachelorette party for me, I’m not going to lie, it stressed me out. I’m lucky…