Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Community. When it comes to travel blogging, what does that even mean? Is it compatible with cutting out the noise and being productive? Can you be connected to community and also appreciate the joy of quiet? When I started as a travel blogger in 2007, I was very keen on the idea of community (how hilarious [...]
I have been doing a spot of digital housekeeping to ring in the new year. I used TwitCleaner to clear out some of the junk that has ended up in my Twitter stream. I’ve locked down the privacy settings for my new Facebook Timeline on my personal account (I invite blog fans to ‘like’ my Facebook [...]
If you crossed Willy Wonka, you could end up in a garbage chute or transformed into a giant blueberry. Right now, Nestlé could be wishing it had the same power. In the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the worst Wonka had to deal with was a handful of rude children and their [...]
Have an artichoke lunch at Duartes Tavern in Pescadero, a few hours south of San Francisco. This is the first in a series of posts about our road trip down California’s famous Highway 1. The stretch of Highway 1 immediately south of San Francisco, before you hit Santa Cruz, is pretty but not as spectacular [...]
Last Friday my husband, parents-in-law and I set off south of San Francisco in a hire car. We drove back up via scenic Highway 1, visiting Hearst Castle, Big Sur, Monterey and Santa Cruz. Along the way I shared snippets from the trip on Twitter, just like I did earlier this year with Scotland. This [...]
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