Admit it: there’s something fun about checking out other people’s houses. No? You don’t love HGTV just as much as the Travel Channel? You don’t browse real estate listings for pleasure reading, or attend open houses just for entertainment? That’s fine; I already knew my family was quirky (popping into open houses used to be part…

Welcome to my newest series, The Wanderland Guide to Travel Planning. This is the second post in a multi-part series, and it’s brought to you by KAYAK. Happy planning! . So, you’ve decided where to go. Unless you’re boat or train-bound, or you’ve got a set of wheels and a destination within driving distance, you’re going…

Welcome to my newest series, The Wanderland Guide to Travel Planning. This is the first post in a multi-part series! . Travel planning. It drives me crazy, and I mean that in both that passionate, can’t-get-enough-of-it kind of way as well as that miserable, can’t-stop-crying-tears-of-frustration kind of way. Lately, I’ve received an uptick in requests to…

Inertia. An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and a blogger not blogging tends to stay not blogging. That’s how I’ve felt this week… this month? September was one of my lightest posting months ever (tied with December 2014, for my fellow useless information hoarders) since I launched Alex in Wanderland, and October’s not…

Getting back on my roundup game! Thanks for putting up with my very tardy monthly wrap-ups. These are some of the juiciest, most comprehensive and most detail-filled posts I write, and hence, they take me a long time to put together. Hope you don’t mind that they come served like fine wine… well-aged and with a…