Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
It's going down, I'm yelling timber You better move, you better dance Let's make a night, you won't remember ~ Pitfall featuring Ke$ha Kicking of my Birthday Month Last weekend I hopped on a plane to feed my blonde jet setting soul, kick off my birthday month, AND have an epic mer-venture with my best friend, my one [...]
"And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss." ~ J. K. Rowling Food Scene New York's food scene is second to none. The endless smorgasbord of delights and delicacies with new places popping up weekly if not [...]
"If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?" ~ Evangeline Lilly I first discovered Le Pain Quotidien on one of my first ever trips to New York City. It seemed an anomaly situated on the Upper East Side against the concrete and [...]
"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." ~ Matsuo Basho In the air again! Last Thursday I flew back to New Hampshire (I know! Wasn't I just there?) for my niece's baptism as well as to have a reunion with my best friend and mermaid extraordinaire Tiffany. My mer-twin and I [...]
"I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back." ~ Hugh Laurie If you have read my blog you know what a coffee fiend I am. From Starbucks, to Frontside in NoCo to Cafe Jax in the Concrete Jungle. Coffee is a language I not [...]
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I have been on the rails and in the skies, working on my frequent mile points. California was only just the beginning or perhaps the middle of my jet setting [...]
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings." ~ Jane Austen Here is another episode of "What in the World Has Kate been up to?" Since coming back from California, I have been a bit AWOL I know. Life has been absolutely crazy, and part of me misses California with all my heart. It [...]
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world." ~ William Hazlitt The day dawned bittersweet as it was our last day. We were flying out on a red eye, which was both a blessing and a curse. We had the whole day ahead of [...]
"How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller Every time I think of Sausalito I think of being tucked away in an Italian village in the mountains. Taking the ferry and crossing the Bay is like entering a whole other world. It really [...]
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." ~ Maya Angelou Day four dawned with much excitement. I had been anticipating this day, weeks in advance before I ever arrived in [...]