Today I’m back in New York and dreaming of Hawaii as I sit out Hurricane Sandy. I’ve got the weather blues, and I’m dreaming of the final days of summer in Albany…. On my very last day in New York before leaving for Hawaii, I took a few hours off from packing and planning to attend…

This week brought me to an exciting and unexpected destination, Kauai! As I announced last week, Angie of  Angie Away offered to host me on what is frequently referred to as Hawaii’s most beautiful island, and I accepted. I couldn’t be happier I went — I got to explore another beautiful island, meet one of my…

One of the main objectives of my trip to Rochester — other than visiting my sister, of course — was to check Niagara Falls off my list. Just five hours from my hometown of Albany and only an hour and a half from Rochester, it’s crazy to think I didn’t see it before — after all…

Normally I love finding great travel quotes, finding the perfect photo and merging them together into inspiring virtual postcards. This month, though, I found the quote was already in the photo… When I saw this rock over the summer in Martha’s Vineyard, I knew it had to be featured. Of course this quote applies to so…

One of my goals in being location independent and working for myself was to have more time to not just travel but to spend with friends and family. So I made good on that this summer and visited Margaret — the second oldest of my three sisters — in Rochester, New York. I hadn’t been to…