A quick weekend getaway to Houston to see family also meant indulging in the finest local grub Texas had to offer.

If you’ll be in the DC area this weekend, be sure to stop by the Adventures in Travel Expo. Totally bummed that I would be missing it this year, but I did hit the expo last year and mused about it on Matador Travel under a post titled Adventure comes to town. Beth Whitman, author [...]

“Ha! War-shing-tone!’, she exclaims in heavily accented English. “Obama! I am so happy for you!”, her dark eyes gleaming from a face creased with age. While she’d been prepping for a funeral, I’d pulled her aside for questions – this old Swedish church lady well into her sixties. Ten minutes after our questions had been [...]