Get your motor running with a different sort of scenic drive

Steven Roll

Running in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC. This is a guest post by Steve Roll, the creator of Travelojos, a blog about traveling to and living in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter @travelojos. It was a cold Sunday morning in winter and just as I accelerated through a curve on a wooded road overlooking Rock [...]

Family road trip from San Diego to Los Angeles

Jen Miner

La Jolla, Legoland and Laguna Beach are great spots to stop on a family road trip from San Diego to Los Angeles. This is a guest post from Jennifer Miner who blogs at The Vacation Gals. Follow her on Twitter at @jenniferminer. Family road trips are practically an American institution. Snacks in a cooler, kids [...]

What’s so great about Seattle, anyway?

Seattle-water-view

Despite its flaws, Seattle is a city of great food, nature, magical summers and (mostly) friendly people. This is a guest post from Pam Mandel who blogs at Nerd’s Eye View. Follow her on Twitter at @nerdseyeview. Seattle is an imperfect city. We have terrible traffic, our real estate is too expensive, our job market somewhat whimsical. [...]

Introducing Nashville’s hot chicken

Rebecca Crump

Hot chicken is to Nashville what sourdough is to San Francisco or shrimp and grits are to Charleston. This is a guest post from Rebecca Crump, a Nashville-based writer who blogs about her life and what she’s cooking at EzraPoundCake.com. The first time we took my husband’s cousin to Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, I warned him. [...]

Delicious distractions

Twins

Roaming Tales has been on a hiatus. These last few months have been extremely busy for me, with an international move from California back to my hometown of Sydney, late pregnancy in a summer heat wave and finally the birth of these two delicious creatures three weeks ago. Of course, now that the twins are [...]

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