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Category Hotels/Lodging

Ideas for where to stay in various locales

A Tribute to Tranquility: The Karol Hotel, Clearwater, Florida

We spent nearly a week in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater area at a new hotel.  The Karol Hotel isn’t just new to us.  It is new in general.  It opened in February 2020 just before the pandemic began to muck things… Continue Reading →

Mobile, Alabama’s Historic Castle Fit for A Traveling Queen

If I could have squealed, I would have. That simply wouldn’t have been dignified, though. The lobby of the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa is nothing if not dignified.  It is classy in a way that only a… Continue Reading →

Books, Bamboo & Breakfast in Alabama

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Alabama: Cautious Optimism and a Good Start

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A Field Trip to Orlando

My husband and I are sheltering in place like many of you.  Also like many of you, we don’t go out much.  We go to the grocery store and for walks, but that’s about it.  Now, that some family members… Continue Reading →

A New Hotel Experience in North Carolina

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A Twilight Zone Day

Have you ever had a day, whether traveling or not, when odd things just kept happening?  I had a day like that recently.  I believe it would be appropriate to file this specific day under the category of “when travel… Continue Reading →

A Myrtle Beach Wrap-Up

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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

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