Despite spending nearly seven years living in Europe as a child and multiple trips since then for both business and pleasure, Portugal is one of the only Western European countries I hadn’t visited until this trip.  And it was as beautiful as I’d been promised by those who had gone before… We stayed in a […]

I find it difficult to capture the beautiful Parisian buildings in a way that does them justice.  When I see them in person, I am in awe of their beauty.  I love the iron balconies that are usually adorned with window boxes overflowing with red geraniums.  However, when I look at photo after photo of […]

After wolfing down an extremely early breakfast, my camera and I had 30 minutes to walk through the French Quarter at dawn at a cafe au lait-fueled speed before the flight home.  Even at that early hour, the second I left the air-conditioned lobby of the Ritz-Carlton, I felt as if I’d stepped straight into a sauna.  Here is […]

After wolfing down an extremely early breakfast, my camera and I had 30 minutes to walk through the French Quarter at dawn at a cafe au lait-fueled speed before the flight home.  Even at that early hour, the second I left the air-conditioned lobby of the Ritz-Carlton, I felt as if I’d stepped straight into […]

Rooms at the conference hotel here in Phoenix were sold out when I went to make my reservation a few months back, so our administrative assistant booked me at a nearby hotel.  Entering the Hotel Valley Ho is like walking onto the set of Mad Men.  The mid-1950s architecture is decorated in tangerine and teal […]