Washburn Island in Waquoit Bay (Falmouth, Cape Cod) is one of my favorite secret hangouts. Accessible only by private boat, this island is uninhabited, except for 10 campsites and a park ranger. Amenities are few, as are rules. Each site has firepits with a grill top, and 2 solar composting toilets (glorified outhouses). And the…
Wow! Nine days in the pacific northwest just isn’t enough time to do everything! Every beautiful hike / every brewery (and cidery!) / every swanky hipster restaurant … There is just too much fun stuff out there. The only drawback about the northwest is that people drive under the speed limit, which – to a…
This is going to sound really lame, but one of my favorite aspects of traveling is packing*. Packing?! … Yeah. I’m not talking about physically stuffing my belongings into a suitcase. I’m talking about understanding a foreign culture in terms of its unique sense of style. Then using this knowledge to curate a micro-wardrobe, so…
Summer is FINALLY here. After 6 months of the dreary, anti-climactic Massachusetts winter, it’s the greatest feeling to lay in the warm sun and ditch the heavy winter coats (..nothing against a good coat!). Summer means BBQs, beers (and ciders!) on the beach, bonfires, boats and plenty of other b-words and non-b-words that all point…
The old cliché still holds true: The grass is always greener… Boston is fantastic in lots of ways, but it just can’t compete with the country life. We can’t have chickens on our tiny Somerville balcony (not that I haven’t thought about it…), and a hike from our apartment might end in Boston Common or…
Hola! Welcome to my blog. If you end up reading it you’ll learn all about my kitchen antics and cocktail whims, wild ideas about mindful living and DIYing my life, and probably some tangents about being a millennial in the great city of Boston. A little about who I am: I’ll try to keep my…