The travel blog for couples - Written by Melanie Waldman
A few weeks back we hit the road to find ourselves some autumn fun in the Pacific Northwest. With the help of our friends, we found it in Forest Grove, Oregon, less than an hour from Portland.
Between huge flocks of birds, a sake tour, wine tasting and a fine mist hanging o’er the hills, I’m sure as heck glad we got off the couch and headed west.
A bit of the bar at Ping in Portland's Chinatown
Recently spent my (early-October) birthday up in Portland, Oregon, which is just about our favorite city in America.
We stayed with friends, went to a book fair and a radio show taping, toodled around the city, drank wine and stuffed our faces. We wore actual sweaters and jackets to ward off the autumn chill.
And you know what? It was darn good for the mind, body and soul.
This past weekend, we took a brief break from some epic spring cleaning to check out The Garden Conservancy‘s first Open Days event of the year in the Los Angeles area.
Held all over the United States each year between March and November, Open Days allow you to snoop around other people’s backyards and/or find landscaping inspiration while simultaneously raising money to provide and preserve garden spaces across the country. It’s a fun, romantic and altruistic outing, whether you’re traveling in a different city or simply exploring your own. [Read more...]
Olympic National Park, Christmas Day 1997
There’s traveler’s wisdom in a simple concept: Don’t overplan.
We took our first longer-than-a-weekend, not-to-see-family, multi-destination trip together in December 1997. (And to think, we’d been together three years by then.) We put aside nine days to visit Seattle and Victoria, B.C., and the trip was cold, fun, rainy and exciting.
But when I look back, just about my favorite part was an unexpected side trip to Washington’s Olympic National Park.
Photo by Roadsidepictures
The popular travel blog TripBase has started a tag-you’re-it game across the travel blogosphere.
The goal is to collect an amazing list of across-the-globe travel secrets from as many travel bloggers as humanly possible. Someday soon, this list will be a Creative Commons roundup that I’ll be sure to share with you!
For now, I’ve been tagged by two of my favorite travel bloggers, Sheila of GoVisitHawaii and Isabelle of Isabelle’s Travel Guide to contribute my own best kept travel secrets.
So, here we go:
