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Feb 25, 2024

Steve McCurry ICONS

My experience with photojournalist Steve McCurry did not end with my recent Talking Travel interview. Earlier this week I went to Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago for Steve McCurry ICONS.

Royal Air Maroc Relaunches Direct Casablanca–Beijing Route, Debuts Toronto Flight

As part of its international network expansion, Royal Air Maroc will reinstate the direct Casablanca–Beijing route initially launched in January 2020 and suspended just a few weeks later due to the health crisis.

Feb 18, 2024

A Birthday Weekend

The other weekend, my boyfriend Sam and I went to New York City to visit some friends to celebrate his birthday. We took the train into the city and dropped our bags off at our hotel, Marriott Vacations Club Pulse, and were thankfully able to check in early and get our bearings before our brunch reservation at Bandits in the West Village.

Sep 14, 2023

More Adventures in Anchorage

Picking back up where we left off, the best ways to spend your time in Anchorage.

Remarkable Medellín

Visiting Medellín in Colombia: The Country of Beauty is like stepping into a fantastic story — literally, as the city in the Western Colombian Andes region inspired Disney’s Encanto. Here, valleys, the world’s tallest palms, vibrant communities, colorful houses, garden-like balconies and more prove reality is more picturesque than anything on film. And it’s especially more tempting following Medellín’s remarkable transformation, shedding its troubled past and reawakening as a city of innovation, art, cultural richness, modern infrastructure, thriving tourism and resiliency.

Sep 13, 2023

Arabia Steamboat Museum

Read my blog for any length of time and you can see I’m a sucker for history tourism. If there’s something with a few decades of development behind it (be it a restaurant, destination or sports team), I can usually be found fawning over the backstory involved.