As much as I love my time on the farm, I also love to travel.  I enjoy anything from a day trip to check out a cool flea market and meet friends, weekends away with my sweetie at a historic hotel,  or a full-blown vacation to ANYWHERE!

Travel Blogs

Watch for links to my adventures!

I Was Shocked to Find This Hidden Art Treasure in North Iowa…

This winter I when was doing a cooking class for a travel blogger group in Charles City, Iowa. The first night we were staying at the lovely Red Cedar Lodge, getting to know each other, eating treats that would make any foodie jealous, laughing A LOT and having a little too much wine when one of the bloggers,  Theresa Goodrich, author of of “Two Lane Gems, Vols 1 & 2” asked if I was interested... Read More

Finding Julia Child in Paris….and crepes on every street corner!

Julia Child is my food heroine.  We have so much in common — we are both a little awkward, late bloomers in life, have an obsession with butter and things fly when we are in the kitchen.   I loved Julia’s show “The French Chef” which PBS ran in reruns for years.  Her charm was that she just kept on going when things went wrong — she flubbed her flips, burned things, murdered lobsters and... Read More

25 Tips and Tricks to Travel Smarter in Paris…from an Iowa Farm Girl

Ooo La La — Paris in the spring!  I have been back a little over a week from my first trip out of the country, other than Canada, which I don’t think really counts.  Paris has always been the one place  in the world I have wanted to go and my handsome husband did not want to go with me.  Apparently I nearly killed him on our trip to Chicago last summer – he calls... Read More

5 Reasons for a Girl Trip to Omaha

You know the old Cyndi Lauper  song “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” ?   Well, Omaha is a great place for the girls to get together, laugh, eat, shop, make some new memories and have fun!    On a summer trip,  two of my new North Iowa blogger friends, Sara and Joy,  and I headed to Omaha on a little blogging outing sponsored by Visit Omaha.    What a hoot it turned out to be! We... Read More