"Which bath house are you going to?" Nelli asked. I had barely put my bags down when our Hungarian Airbnb host pulled out a map and started marking her picks. "Rudas is my favorite of the Budapest baths," she said. "It used to be a little dirty, but they just renovated it". As it turned out, everyone has their favorite thermal bath in Budapest. Budapest has more mineral hot springs than ...
Don’t Get Hacked: Internet Safety Tips for Travelers & Bloggers
Thanks to Norton by Symantec for sponsoring this post and encouraging me to share these internet safety tips. All opinions are my own, lessons learned the hard way! When you are on the internet all day and all night like many of us are today, it's easy to not think much about the risks involved in making that connection. I admit to being lax and often jumping on free Wi-Fi connections ...
A Day in Japanese Tea Country: Visiting a Tea Farm Near Kyoto, Japan
We were sitting in the back seat of Matsu-san's little jeep, climbing the rolling hills of Wazuka, Japan. The road was curvy, I was worried I would get carsick (I'm always carsick) the only thing that really helps is closing my eyes. But I couldn't stop looking at this view... We were in Japanese green tea country, exploring the mountain-top tea fields in Wazuka, Japan. Wazuka is a ...
A Sweet Day in Sacramento
Last weekend we held our latest #SweetsCrawl, an occasional EIT reader meetup and dessert-fueled city walking tour. We've done them several times before in various cities in California. It's a fun way to get out and do what I love to do--travel and eat! This time around we explored local bakeries, sweets shops, and foodie things to do in Sacramento, our state capital. About ten people came out ...
Traveling Overnight in an Amtrak Sleeper Car
California is a pretty magical place and one of my most telling local travel memories is this one... The Amtrak Coast Starlight train runs 1,200 miles up the West Coast of the U.S. from Los Angeles to Seattle. We took the train north along this route back in January 2011. We were headed to Southern Oregon for a nature photography conference and to begin Oregon coast road trip with Kevin's ...
Planning a Summer Trip to San Francisco
How would you spend a summer weekend in San Francisco? Travel search engine, KAYAK, asked me to share my best summer travel tips to help sync up with the launch of their Summer Travel Hacker Guide. Among other insights, they scoured their travel booking data to come up with the top 10 U.S. cities for a long weekend summer getaway, which I thought was an interesting list--some destinations I ...
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