Bringing Down the White Picket Fence
A Couple's Quest to Live Globally
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We are thrilled to announce that we are now officially Starwood Preferred Platinum guests! We reached our goal on December 31st, and we are looking forward to our first year of shiny, platinum SPG benefits. So where did we get our final stays in the Countdown to SPG Platinum? The answer is: New York City and New Orleans. Two incredibly unique cities. Two separate blog posts. It is not unusual for us to… Read More
It’s an annual thing now. Every fall we head down to Carolina to see a Gamecock football game. Sometimes we fly into Charlotte, other times, Greenville, depending on how convenient Southwest Airlines can make it for us. Then we rent a car and make the hour or so drive to Columbia. But this year, we changed it up a little. This time we flew into Charleston to meet up with one of our… Read More
We are well on our way to Platinum! We made a road trip out of stays 8, 7, and 6 by heading to Philadelphia, Alexandria, and Washington, D.C.! Our first stop was at the Le Meridien Philadelphia, a hotel we love for its unique design and history. Since this hotel used to be a YMCA, it has a character all its own which makes it stand out from other SPG properties. This hotel… Read More
Until this past weekend, I’d never been to Princeton. I feel I only have the SAT’s to blame for this… Since I never quite fulfilled my quest for the perfect score with the Educational Testing Service, the terms “Ivy League” were just as foreign to me as the vocabulary words that plagued my young teenage mind in cold classrooms on early Saturday mornings at Manasquan High School. As a result, places like… Read More
We invite you to help us express our loyalty to the Starwood Preferred Guest program by following us on our journey towards SPG Platinum status. If you are not familiar with the Starwood Preferred Guest program, give us a chance to fill you in on how much we love the Starwood hotel chain and how we plan the majority of our trips around “getting a stay” at as many Starwood properties as… Read More
This summer we headed up to Brantford, Ontario to visit Paul’s favorite cousin Mark. Along the way, we visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, then made a pit stop in Syracuse for a bite to eat and a place to rest our heads, spent the night on a sailboat in Port Dover, and eventually made our way up to Toronto for some sightseeing. It was a quick, but fun trip, with the… Read More
After Paris, Paul and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary in the city of Aix-en-Provence. After a week of doing the lazy and relaxing “eat, sleep, pool-shuffle” in the south of France, we returned home to New Jersey only to pack up our Jeep and set off on a road trip to Canada. We were only home one whole week! While we always remain fully equipped to blog during our travels, we don’t always… Read More
As much as we love Paris, the city life gets a tad exhausting, with crowds flocking to the city in the heat of the summer. We love the ease of train travel in Europe and find it a pleasure to whisk ourselves away to small towns and the French countryside whenever possible. In all of our trips to Paris, we had yet to make a visit to Giverny, France, the site of Monet’s exquisite… Read More
Aviation is an amazing thing. In the span of about seven hours, I went from having this very expensive $12 glass of fine Newark airport wine… to this… Here, you can buy two bottles of wine at the local supermarket for about 4 Euros a bottle. With the current exchange rate, that equals less than $5 a bottle, which makes that aforementioned glass of Newark airport wine a huge rip off. Plus, the 4… Read More
Paris is getting a lot of press lately on their decision to remove the padlocks of love from the Pont des Arts bridge. Of course, everybody has their opinions on the matter, from those who find the locks to be a must-see tourist attraction (right up there with seeing the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre) to those who understand the realistic dangers of thousands of metal locks weighing down the side panels… Read More
Bringing Down the White Picket Fence 