The Best Things To Do In Bloomington, Indiana

WRITTEN BY Julie

People visit Bloomington for a variety of reasons. For most, the university is the draw. With nearly 50,000 students, faculty and staff, Indiana University can’t help but attract visitors of many types. Some...

Plan a Road Trip: budget and resources for a Southern US road trip

01.20.17

Southern US Road Trip: Budget & Resources

WRITTEN BY Julie

It feels like just yesterday we were writing a similar summary about our Balkans Road Trip. It’s been a season of road trips around here, a travel format that took us way too long to discover. Now we just can’t get...

01.16.17

The Insatiable Charm of New Orleans

WRITTEN BY Julie

All of our photos of New Orleans are of houses. I want to use lots of cliched words about the houses in New Orleans – colorful, charming, grand, just a little off-kilter. But it’s not the colorfulness of...

Visit Forth Worth: The legendary longhorn cattle in the Fort Worth Stockyards

01.13.17

Visit Fort Worth: 5 Can’t Miss Activities

WRITTEN BY Drew

I will admit, it never crossed my mind to visit Fort Worth, Texas. But when good friends moved there recently, and sang its praises, we knew we’d soon be there to see for ourselves. Fort Worth is what I expected...

austin city: street art in Austin, Texas

01.10.17

Eating It All In Austin City Limits

WRITTEN BY Julie

One morning I looked around our stylishly renovated RV, snug in the privacy of a backyard, shopping bags from ironic-yet-expensive boutiques shoved in the corner, the remnants of our last food truck meal strewn...

12.30.16

Barbecue and Family Time in Memphis

WRITTEN BY Julie

The Peabody Hotel, with its famous ducks and beautifully decorated lobby, was a moment of escape during an otherwise family-centric visit to Memphis recently. Huge numbers crowded the Peabody Hotel, waiting for...