Family fun while on a business trip! 👨👩👧👦✨ In between meetings and tour planning with my amazing travel partner OASIS Travel, I spent the day enjoying the magic of Epcot with my family. Yes, these photos are of my kids—and I love sharing them with you. 💛 They’ve become such joyful little travelers and are always curious, engaged, and soaking up the experience. I honestly see a few future tour guides in the making! 🌍👣 As we wandered through the World Showcase—Italy, Morocco, France—it hit me again how powerful travel is. It shapes us. It connects us. It creates memories[…]
Month: July 2025
Morning Reflections on the 4th of July: Freedom, Fireworks & Treviso Friendships
I just woke up to a quiet Fourth of July morning—the kind of slow, golden start where the air already feels full of anticipation. Later tonight, there’ll be fireworks, music, and celebration. But right now, I’m sitting with a coffee, thinking about a different kind of freedom I felt not long ago—on my last trip to Treviso, Italy. It’s funny how, sometimes, the quietest places and smallest interactions leave the loudest echoes. Treviso wasn’t the busiest stop on my tour, but it might’ve been the most memorable. Not because of the postcard scenery—though, trust me, it was stunning—but because of[…]
Pasta Highlights from Northern Italy
Our adventure kicked off in Treviso, where, over a welcome dinner in a villa surrounded by gardens, I had my first bite of bigoli in salsa—a thick pasta with anchovy and onion sauce. Simple, salty, and deeply satisfying. Later, wandering Treviso’s canals, I found a cozy lunch spot and tried tagliatelle al radicchio trevigiano. The local chicory, sautéed with pancetta, was bold and slightly bitter—a perfect match for the fresh pasta. In Verona, the city of love, I fell hard for tortelli di zucca—pumpkin-filled pasta with sage butter and crushed amaretti. Sweet and savory, it captured Verona’s charm in every[…]
Travel Journal: Vespa Dreams in Northern Italy
This blog is dedicated to those Italian Vespa fans! Two weeks. Four cities. Countless Vespas. And one unforgettable experience that felt like rolling through a vintage postcard on two wheels. From the moment we landed in Treviso, it was clear: this trip wasn’t just about Italy’s beauty, cuisine, and history—it was about the Vespas. The soul of the streets. The soundtrack of the piazzas. Treviso: Winding canals, cobbled alleys, and Vespas tucked like art installations into every corner. Most memorable? A forest green PX 150 parked under a vine-covered archway—pure poetry in metal. Locals buzzed by effortlessly, helmets perched just[…]