Tips & Tricks

Now that I’ve written the war & peace of rolling carryon suitcases, what about that vaguely named “one personal item” we’re allowed to carry on in the cabin? There’s Your Carry On Bag, and Then There’s Your Carry-Arround Bag If you don’t care to read all about wheelie bag suitcases…

These monster-eyed Halloween pajama pants are the first sewing project I’ve done in years! Getting my guest room finally sorted gave me space to set up my machine and make pajama magic. Yesterday I wrote all about my sewing machine situation. Today it’s all about the pants. Supplies & Stuff…

Good morning! That picture above is from a past trip to Paris. I remember the exact day I took the photo, it was in 2015 just a few days after Christmas. I had gotten a little lost in an unfamiliar part of the city and as I was walking back…

Everyone loves a trip. But if you aren’t obsessively watching flights and all you remember is that one time you tried to go to London back in 2004 and a coach ticket was $1800 roundtrip, you may think international travel is a money pit. So how I am able to…

It is 9:14 a.m. and I am eating microwave macaroni and cheese and drinking coffee, so yay for Travel Day. Well, at least I hope it is travel day. Online check in did not go well last night, oddly a repeat of my June experience with British Airways and Finnair.…

Today I got to try something new in my obsessive picture taking. One of my loverly birthday presents from the Captain was a super cool clip-on fisheye camera lens for my iPhone. A fisheye lens is a type of wide-angle lens that lets more visual information into the view. It…