Weird Activities and Awkward Encounters at home and abroad
I just returned home from a Thanksgiving trip to visit my family in Shreveport, LA, reportedly the “coolest city ever.” What’s that? You haven’t heard that? or even really heard of Shreveport? Let me assure you that it is in fact a thing… it says so on this sign. Bonus points for anyone that can…
I’ve been to St. Augustine a handful of times, most recently being this past Saturday Nov. 23rd. It was a fortunate coincidence that it happened to be St. Augustine’s Night of Lights, an annual festival and tree lighting. The entire town turned out. Some dressed up for the event. The mayor even made a speech. …
In recent years it seems that Florida‘s reputation as spring break and retirement mecca has been overtaken by insane news stories. It’s cool to hate Florida. I moved here from Tennessee almost 9 years ago (yikes!) and in that time have heard things like, “I’m not much for sun and sand”, “I never left anything…
Continuing my cheap U.K. theme, I wanted to talk about the one weird side trip I made while in London. I went to Brighton for a visit to the beach. Apparently I picked an inopportune time to go, because a quick google search for information yields gorgeous pictures of clear skies over a sun soaked…
If you’ve read my last post, you’re probably pretty impressed with what a travel genius I am for being able to cheaply and directly infiltrate the British people and exploit their travel opportunities. If not, you should go ahead and read that before I admit to all the stupid things I did after making the…
The hardest part of international travel on a budget is getting there. Finding cheap flights can be daunting, especially if you have a job or other obligations to work around and can’t be as flexible on dates. I was faced with this very predicament this summer when invited to London at the most expensive…
I have been attending the Food and Wine Festival for years now, but have never done any of their special events. This year I changed that and attended the Mexican Tequila Lunch at La Hacienda de San Angel. This is an informative and tasty lunch that takes place at noon every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday…
It’s November Contest time! I’ve yet to hear back about all the great travel I probably won during October, but in the meantime, here are some excellent free travel opportunities going on through November! International- Bookmark and enter every day Win a trip for 2 to Venice from Travel Channel– 21+ ends 11/30 Win a…
What better way to finish off a Halloween night than by revisiting some of my more bizarre travels? The following are 10 of the eeriest places I’ve visited. 1- Carnton Plantation, Franklin, TN The subject of my last post, a civil war era plantation that was used as a hospital during the battle of Franklin…
In honor of Halloween I’m going to revisit one of my favorite spooky locations, The Carnton Plantation in my hometown of Franklin, TN. Now, I’m a sucker for a ghost story and I grew up in Franklin, TN, a small town that’s still milking the Civil War because that’s the last interesting thing that happened…
