In ten days onboard the Carnival Vista, the worst thing about the Vista was having to leave the Vista. I think we’ve been on, like, 20 cruises by now. This might have been lucky #20. Some are more distinct than others, but they all blend together sometimes. It never gets any easier to leave. I Read more
I have this…sense…when we pull back into domestic waters on debarkation morning and my cellular service is restored. Something that wakes me up and tells me I’m reconnected to the world. But connection is a bittersweet pill to swallow. After 8 days with Mom and Stephanie, I was ready to reconnect to my world. With Read more
Leaving Paris for Chicago was bad enough. A 4:30 am wakeup call so we could leave this beautiful place we’d spent weeks exploring? That’s just torturous. We had to be out of the hotel by 5:30 am to have enough time to check in for our flight, validate and process our VAT return, check our Read more
I’ve been so busy over the past two weeks. I wish I could say I was jetsetting to some exotic place (…or any place), or that I was spending every waking moment enjoying this warm extended fall we’re experiencing in Chicago, but the truth is not nearly as glamorous: I was at work. Between the Read more
Mom has had some pretty awesome birthdays over the past eleven years. She’s always somewhere on her birthday. One year, we were in Disneyland. Another year, we were in the Bahamas. Last year, we were in St. Lucia on her birthday. She laughs it off, usually posting some (unintentional) humble brag on Facebook about having Read more
