Virtual Travel Day: Letting Your Taste Buds Explore

Attention foodies, and wine/beer lovers! If you want to explore all kinds of dining delights, there’s no better way than to plan a vacation all around food and drink – especially here in the United States!

From the East Coast to the West Coast and everywhere in-between, the US has a varied and delicious food scene. Whether it is a hearty steak from a Denver steakhouse, steaming tables of Maryland blue crabs, beer and brats reminiscent of old world Germany in Milwaukee, or a sampling from one of the over 3500 wineries in California, you name it and you’ll likely find  it somewhere on an American food vacation!

While we can’t visit any of these places to sample (yet) we can virtually travel to them. Here are 4 favorites for you to drool over for now (warning – do not read on an empty stomach)! Read more

Virtual Travel Day: The Smithsonian Museums

Photo via https://www.si.edu/museums/natural-history-museum

As we all deal with staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us who love to travel are finding new and creative ways to feed our wanderlust from the comfort of our homes, until we are able to travel in person again. Happily, many destinations are making it super easy to do that, and I want to take some time over the coming weeks to highlight some fun ways to virtually vacation.

Today’s “trip” is to my hometown of Washington, DC, and a visit to the world’s largest complex of museums, education, and research: the Smithsonian Institution. Read more