The travel bug had to start somewhere–right? When I was growing up, I got into competitive figure skating and was traveling across the country for different competitions–with my parents. One year, my parents could not make it to the entire competition.  They could come to the competitive part, but not …

I was on one of Bill’s business trips with him.  We were in Tuscon, AZ (a delightful area), and he had a bunch of meetings. After one of the meetings, we were going to go out for drinks, so I offered to hang around where his meeting would be instead …

A few years ago, I was having a really bad day so my friend decided we were taking a trip that second.  That exact moment–no prep. So we got in the car and went. It ended up being a really fun trip.  We went out past Manassas to the battle …