8 Tips for Planning a Trip

8 Tips for Planning a Trip

Sometimes the hardest part about traveling is planning it. Maybe the trip never gets beyond that “we should go there” stage, or you end up lounging in a hotel room at your destination trying to come up with things to do, watching your precious time go down the drain....
Picture Perfect in Inclement Weather

Picture Perfect in Inclement Weather

After months of planning, you’ve finally made it to your dream destination—and what happens? A storm rolls in, and rain or fog or snow are getting in the way of all those great photos you were going to take. Now how are you going to get any photos? Here are a few...
Lighten Your Load

Lighten Your Load

Just 45 square inches. Doesn’t sound like much, and truthfully it isn’t. But if “packing light” meant living out of a 45-square-inch suitcase for six weeks, then I guess it would have to be enough. The anticipation of my first trip outside the United States had me in...
100,000 Crosses

100,000 Crosses

Crosses cover the hill entirely—they crowd each other so tightly, it would be impossible to walk through them. A thin cloud blankets the sky, and all is quiet and tranquil. I think of Lithuanians first placing crosses on the hill during the nineteenth century to...