Category: Travel
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Around the World, Part 2
Tales from our Adventure To read Part 1, see the previous post. Before the trip even started, I encountered a significant hiccup. Because our first location was Cusco, Peru (11,000+ feet), we were instructed (in Washington, DC) to take the elevation medication we were told to bring. After the welcome dinner and reception in DC, Michael and…
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Around The World
Several years ago, I got a National Geographic Expedition catalog in the mail. Up until then, I didn’t even know the world-renowned company did travel excursions. At the back of the catalog was a trip called Around the World by Private Jet. A 24-day trip that visited places like Machu Picchu and Petra, Jordan (a…
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Queen Hatshepsut
Image – Sphinx of Hatshepsut Original Location: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY I fell in love with Hatshepsut (hat-chep-soot) while reading the book The Woman Who Would Be King by UCLA Professor and Egyptologist Kara Cooney. Ms. Cooney paints an amazing portrait of life in…
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Advanced Planning
I’d be completely lying if I said I didn’t start to mentally pack my suitcase within 2 minutes of getting off the phone with National Geographic after booking our trip to Egypt (for October). In the following weeks, it’s all I could talk about to the point of my husband rolling his eyes even before…
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Ancient Egypt
To be honest, I can’t remember when my curiosity and interest in Egypt began. One of my first lessons in Egypt came from a ballet classmate. Her name was Allison, and she was obsessed with ancient Egypt. We were in ballet together for several years when we were young. When I spent the night at…
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In Memory – Bourdain
One year ago today, I woke up and sauntered into the kitchen for breakfast. Within a minute or two my husband entered, just before heading off to work. He asked me, Have you heard the news? As he was asking this question, he pulled me into a hug. No, I said. There was no way…
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France: Trip Highlights
On our second day in Paris, before our tour started, Michael and I visited the Army Museum and Napoleon’s Tomb. As we later learned, Napoleon’s “little Napoleon” is not buried with him. It has a history all it’s own and is rumored to currently reside in New Jersey. A women inherited it when her father…
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France’s Food
I went to France under the naive impression that all of the food would be amazing. That’s a great deal to live up to, but I thought the culinary capitol of the world could easily handle the weight of this opinion. During our first few days in Paris, both Michael and I were a tad…
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