I’ve wanted to visit Seattle for a long time. Growing up, I was such a fan of the Seattle grunge scene music and cool, rainy weather seemed like a dream during the hot Texas summers. But interestingly enough when I visited this spring, the weather was warm and sunny. After…
Last month I wrote about taking advantage of a trip to western New York to visit Niagara Falls the other year, but my friend and I also did a little more exploring around that part of the state. As with every place, there’s so much to see, even beyond the…
Niagara Falls was something I would have liked to see, but I have to admit that the sight didn’t come up when actually planning travel – often because I wasn’t planning on being in the area (though that can lead to a larger question of when there’s so much to…
I have to start with noting that I took far too many pics of food, joking those first few days that I’d have to have a separate photo album just for the food. The first week’s food at the yoga retreat was so fresh and light: fruits and vegetables, all…
After a week on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast for a yoga retreat, some friends and I moved on into the Costa Rican mountains to visit the cloud forest in Monteverde. Which was such a different experience from the sunny and warm coast, but no less wonderful. It starts with a…
Last month I participated in my first yoga retreat, and as I sat down to write about it this month, there was one thing I kept coming back to: What was it that I took from the retreat? It was not just the yoga – which practicing twice a day…