Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening." ~ Waris Dirie Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Saturday dawned way to early, even for this usual morning gal. Originally we were going to do sunrise on the Brooklyn Bridge. But thanks to our ten mile trek and Mother Nature deciding her hot flashes were over, we caught an extra hour [...]
"I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream." ~ Diego Della Valle Friendship This past weekend, I had a dear friend come visit for what was basically a forty hour take the city [...]
"When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome." ~ Kristin Armstrong Where are you Autumn? (Why can't I find thee?) To soon? Bonus points if you know what song I just quoted changed. While Autumn [...]
"Skating has given me so much that it's priceless." ~ Michelle Kwan Festive Time of Year While Mother Nature has decided to keep her hot flashes going, that has not stopped the city from getting into the spirit and preparing for when Jack Frost will finally swoop in and freeze us all out. This really [...]
"Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes." ~ Patty Loveless Unofficial End of Summer It is hard to believe that here in the US the official unofficial end to Summer has arrived: Labor Day. For me it ended a few days early, when I headed back to New York on Wednesday, bidding adieu to [...]
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven." ~ John Lubbock New Discoveries While I grew up in the White Mountains, even having moved away it seems like I am discovering new beauties and treasures to explore every time I go home. There is always [...]
"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean." ~ Nina Arianda Blue Hill My friend had an appointment early Saturday morning that she couldn't change in Blue Hill. It isn't on MDI, but is still a coastal town. While she went off to her appointment I went exploring. There was a race going [...]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Philly Philly is a delightful smorgasbord of old and new which is shown in the stunning melding of it's architecture. Since I had explored the commercial side of Philly the day before, I could not wait to [...]
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Off to Phila I go... In what was one part work, one part visiting family, and let's be real two parts satisfying my jetsetter heart, I set off to Philly [...]
"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." Rosalia de Castro Jetsetting Blonde With all the frequent flier miles I have racked up, I get asked a lot about what my wanderlusting secrets are. There isn't an exclusive club, or [...]