With back to school only a couple short weeks away, summer vacation time in dwindling.  Did you do any traveling this summer?  Or are you expecting to do some?
Typically, I stick pretty close to home during the summer.  After all, it’s a great time to be in Seattle.  But this summer I took a three week trip to Italy, leaving mid-June and returning home in early July, and a long weekend trip to Las Vegas in late July.
I don’t have any further summer plans, although if something came up, I wouldn’t say NO.
I invite you to take my Summer Vacation …read more

I’m baseball fan, and for a long time the only reason that I was able to score a vacation in certain cities was because there were major league stadiums there.  “There’s baseball there” was a convincing line when trying to sound persuasive about vacationing in Chicago or Toronto.
If you know a baseball fan, you’ll want to pick up the updated edition or Roadside Baseball, a book that manages to combine the best and worst of travel with the best and worst of baseball.  Organized by state, the book is perfect for planning a baseball road trip that is close …read more