In my family, we believe in celebrating milestone birthdays with travel. So a few years ago, we told my son, “For your 10th Birthday you get to pick a trip to celebrate. Anywhere in the world”. Over the years he was all over the place. A few places he considered were: The Philippines, Paris, London,…
As I was planning my flight for a quick business trip to Chicago, I looked at my family calendar and at the flight options and I tried to figure you the minimal impact on my household while getting flights that work for me. I needed to be in Chicago for one day, for a conference,…
When home dealing with my father’s health crisis, I got the unusual chance to spend three days alone with him in Philadelphia. Due to weather and back to back appointments at the prestigious UPenn Medicine hospital, my dad and I decided to get a hotel near Philly. Now, the days were full of appointments, but…
I wanted to take advantage of President’s Day and take the kids on a mini, near-by adventure. So I settled on a day in the city, exploring the historic Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco. We started our day taking a Lyft to Ghirardelli Square (we had wanted to ride the cable car, but we…
After three hard days of non stop meetings, difficult presentations, and an all day training, I was ready for a break. So when a co worker also visiting Boston from San Francisco suggested we go to dinner I was more than willing. My fellow colleagues from San Francisco were not as familiar with Boston (not…
As the sun came up on our third and final day in New York, my husband and I sadly packed up the room and dragged ourselves downstairs to check out, store luggage, and spend one last day in New York. 9/11 Memorial As I mentioned, the 9/11 Memorial was right by our hotel. Since we…
After a brilliant dinner at Otto in the East Village, we were ready to explore my favorite city… Breakfast The lovely thing about not having our early bird son with us was the ability to sleep in. We did just that, leisurely getting ready for our day and not getting out of the hotel until…
New York, New York; my favorite city in the world. Of course being a New Jerseyite I’m biased. But I have always loved the city. When I was a child my father would take us all the time (he worked for NJ Transit so for us it was easy and cheap). My father would always…
