If there’s anything better than surprising people … I don’t know what it is! [For the uninitiated, this is probably a good place to explain what I do. My primary business…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you were well aware of every movement of Pope Francis last week as he visited the U.S. for the first time. The…
As if you didn’t have enough reasons to hate flying, along comes Jeff Smisek. David Lazarus, a consumer columnist wrote a column in the LA Times recently about the…
Vietnamese coffee… balloons over Bagan… and slow internet… oh my! Please excuse the recycling of a previous blog post, but as you may recall, I am busily escorting some very…
Call me a snob, but I do know a thing or two about travel . . . I’ve often written about the wisdom of what I would consider “original” thinking…
. . . it’s only 3 minutes, 21 seconds. After you watch this, I dare you – no, I double dare you – to not sign up for my Myanmar…
I did something quite remarkable last week. I took a vacation! Although I travel often, I don’t often travel like normal people do. I almost never take a journey that…
Last year at this time, I posted a blog about entertaining my two nieces from Michigan who were visiting their Favorite Aunt Marilyn (that’s me). This time, it’s a visit from…
Summer vacation is one of America’s greatest traditions. It’s mid-August already. Where did the summer go? My grandkids in Florida are already back in school. Hope you had a chance…
Travel + Leisure featured 25 Trips of a Lifetime in their June 2015 issue. Always curious about what the “experts” suggest (mindful that I am, I suppose, an expert!), I…
My husband and I are planning a home remodel in the coming months. I am often inspired by design ideas that I see in the hotels I inspect for…
updated Sept 7, 2020 NOTE: This blog was originally published on July 24, 2015. If a “country” is defined as a United Nations Member State with voting privileges, there are 193….
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