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My Best Travel Surprises (so far)!

One of the reasons that I travel is to learn.  I think most people who enjoy traveling would say the same thing.  Our world is large and varied, fascinating and wonderful.  I find that the more I travel the more… Continue Reading →

Post-Pandemic Travel: What will Hotels and Airports look like?

During the Coronavirus pandemic, I have spoken to many, many friends who have said they are actually enjoying all the extra time with their spouses and children.  They say that they do not feel “trapped” at home at all.  The… Continue Reading →

Advice for Interior Designers: Trends that Your Hotel Guests Hate

Calling all interior designers!  Yes, you!  Put down that pretentious copy of Architectural Digest and listen!  In my first two months on the road, I have stayed in five hotels and two condos.  There are certain design & decorating flaws… Continue Reading →

Back to Nature: Rugged, Western Ireland

Thanks to everyone who voted in the audience participation poll. Overwhelmingly, readers were interested in rural Ireland. Please enjoy this virtual vacation from me to you. I love to travel.  I don’t love the airports and the packing and the… Continue Reading →

Audience Participation Poll: Three European Countries

This is a travel blog by an author who can’t travel.  That’s awkward.  So, I had a silly idea.  Maybe I could perform a community service for my dear readers by recapping one of my old trips. This could serve… Continue Reading →

She Works Hard for the Money

I would like to talk about travel and all the cool things I’ve seen lately.  However, the shutdown is still in progress so instead we will chat a bit about money. Sometime around 1983 I saw the video for Donna… Continue Reading →

Paradise Lost (and Regained)

Our temporary condo was working out just fine.  I spent time in the living room or bedroom each day while my spouse worked at the kitchen table.  I made food and we watched movies together.  Cue the sweeping music.  Things… Continue Reading →

Wimp Palace

April 5, 2020 – The situation finally broke us. We didn’t think it would because we have never thought of ourselves as wimps.  Maybe we are and maybe we’re not.  Who knows?  All I know is that we needed more… Continue Reading →

Live Like a European (or a New Yorker)

3/26/2020 – Living life during a pandemic for me means living in one room.  Bet your feelin’ pretty good about being in the comfort of your own 1,500-square foot home about now, huh? What our hotel does not have is… Continue Reading →

The Lap of Luxury

3/23/2020 – My husband’s company called him in off the road.  We had 72 hours to “go home.”  For everyone else in the company, that was not a big deal at all.  We, however, do not have a home.  We… Continue Reading →

Travel in the Time of Coronavirus (Part 2)

3/19/2020 – What a difference a week makes! The experts did say that it would get worse before it could get better.  This is true.  More things are shutting down.  Some congested cities are on lockdown.  My best friend lives… Continue Reading →

Travel in the Time of Coronavirus (Part 1)

3/13/2020 – There is a famous book called “Love in the Time of Cholera.”  I am entitling this blog entry “Travel in the Time of Coronavirus.” The world is experiencing something new and scary right now.  The Coronavirus started in… Continue Reading →

Re-Visiting an Old Haunt

Some articles on MrsHomeFree.com contain affiliate links, meaning that, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.  Have no fear, this site only contains affiliate links for products that… Continue Reading →

A Really Good Day (Part 2)

A Really Good Day (Part 2) – The Cosmic Joke – 3/6/2020 – Just as I was leaving the art museum, all super happy with myself for researching it on my own, finding it on my own and meeting one… Continue Reading →

A Really Good Day (Part 1)

A Really Good Day (Part 1) – Serendipitous art find – 3/6/2020 – I had such a good day today!  It was 50 degrees and pouring rain all day long (24 full hours) and, still, I had a GREAT day! … Continue Reading →

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