Travel

As I mentioned in the last post, planning for dining at Disney World (and all Disney Parks) is a must if you want to experience the best or most fun places to eat in the parks. There are a lot of options for restaurant choices, how many you ask, there are over 200 places to eat. And if you count snack carts and other snack places the number is more like 400. For table service the number is well over 100. So, while that sounds like a lot and you might think that a reservation isn’t necessary – think again [...]

I can’t wait because in 24 days, I will be at Disney World (not that I’m counting)!!  So how do we plan our Disney World trips?  In June, I did a blog about Disney planning for dates, hotels and park tickets so you can look back at that.  But in this post, I want to talk about planning for meals and over the next few weeks I will talk about other planning.Why meals specifically? It’s pretty simple – unless you want to exist on popcorn, quick serve burgers, tiger tails and all the other snack food that is readily available [...]

I have visited Nashville many times between various conferences and one of my best friends lives there and so it continues to be a city that I love to visit over and over.  When I do visit, I always love to take in the music aspects of what is known as “Music City”.  I’m sure you can guess why Nashville is called Music City but in case you don’t know, it has some very deep music roots.  The nickname “Music City” has been in place since 1925!   There are a lot of reasons to visit Nashville as it [...]

They call Milwaukee the “Cream City” which I didn’t understand at all (and I will tell you why at the end).  I recently visited Milwaukee for a conference and went in a day early, so I had some time to explore.  In addition, as part of the conference we did a sunrise walk and even took a boat tour which gave me a much better perspective of the city.  Since I only was there 4 days and some of it was at a conference, I didn’t have time to explore everything there was to be explored.I did enjoy the city [...]

Continuing on my Alaska cruise adventure, last week I talked about Juneau and the first 3 days of the cruise.  On day 4, we stopped in Prince Rupert, BC which was again another small town where we visited the Museum of Northern British Columbia, Cow Bay and the sunken garden.  We had lunch in the town, which was a great choice and a we chose a restaurant that was suggest by our tour guide.  We returned to the ship after lunch, and I was able to get an appointment at the spa during the afternoon – nothing like a little [...]

Last week I talked in general about my first cruise experience so this week I want to talk specifically about Alaska – or at least the parts I saw.  As a recap, my friend and I chose a luxury cruise line, Seabourn, for our trip. Their ships are much smaller than the giant cruise ships (500 guest vs as much as 5,000) and this gives them a lot of advantages. We chose the 7 day cruise from Juneau to Vancouver, BC (with stops in Wrangell, AK and Prince Rupert, BC). We flew to Juneau the day before our cruise to make [...]