Looking for the perfect gift for your travel and food-loving family and friends? This might help! Over the last several weeks, I’ve been working to pull together my recommendations for gifts for the travelers and foodies on your list. Some of the items here are items I own and use, and others are on my own personal wish list. I also added current sales and coupon codes, when ...
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Spilling A Best Kept Secret: Unique Things to Do in Pittsburgh, PA
I had just landed in Pittsburgh. Two guys behind me were talking about how long it was taking everyone to get off the plane. Guy #1 (from Phoenix on his first trip to the city for work, as I had gathered from eavesdropping) said, "I guess they don't really want to go to Pittsburgh." Guy #2, (local) laughs. "Seriously, Pittsburgh is a great place. There's a lot happening here, it's our ...
6 Magical Kyoto Temples & Shrines
For more than 1,000 years the city of Kyoto was the capital of Japan. Over that time it developed a rich history and many important cultural institutions. Today, the well-preserved and affluent city offers seemingly endless things to see and do. We only got to spend one day and two nights in the city back in 2014, so when we returned earlier this year, I wanted to spend a bit more time there, ...
Eating My Way Through Nishiki Market, Kyoto
One of my favorite things to do in a new city is to visit local food markets and Nishiki Market in Kyoto, Japan was top of my Kyoto travel wish list. Food is serious business in Japan; traditional Japanese cooking, or washoku, is so important to the culture that it was recently placed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The City of Kyoto considers their local cuisine among the ...
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 ...
Links I Love: May
Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan A (semi-) monthly round-up of things I'm reading, watching, and obsessing about. We’re doing our next #SweetsCrawl food tour next weekend in Sacramento. Northern California friends, join us there! You learn so much from traveling and working that you could not get in school. I love this trend for college-bound students who are able to take time off. I ...
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