Passport, Luggage, Money… List of Foods to Eat

Ms. Adventures in Italy, patron saint of Italiaphile foodies everywhere, recently wrote a comprehensive ebook of 101 American Foods to Try for her Italian friends. You can read it online (don’t worry, it’s in English) or download it at her blog post about it. I recently used this list as inspiration for my own list [...]

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On Reverse Culture Shock

A week from today, I’m heading back to the States for the first time in three years on a month-long visit with friends and family.  This is the longest I’ve been away, and a significant percentage of the total seven years I’ve lived overseas.  And I am bracing myself for a whole new level of [...]

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WARNING: Possibly Controversial Post About Sponsored Tweets

This post has nothing to do with travel, but everything to do with blogging – and this here’s my blog, so what better place to talk about it? Mashable, a brilliant site that talks about many things that confuse me because I am an Internet dilettante, recently weighed in on the idea of sponsored tweets. [...]

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Summer Memories From The Jersey Shore

A ray of sun falling across my face wakes me. I lie in bed and listen to my father get up first. He puts the coffee on, which smells so good, and he tiptoes out of the house to get the newspapers from Wawa. Then my mom gets up and has coffee and the TV [...]

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REALLY Bad Reporting Re Travel & Swine Flu

I have set my Gmail Web Clips to give me interesting travel news from a wide variety of sources. One of these sources is MSNBC. Also, please note I’m currently living in France. So when I see a Web Clip that states, “60 crew have swine flu on cruise ship off France” and the source [...]

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