May 2014  My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. – Allen Toussaint This was a long time ago, and I am writing this…

JUNE 2015 In a quest to do as many day trips from my home city (in June 2015, it was Philadelphia) as possible, we gathered up two of our friends and meandered over to Lancaster County. It was a decently long drive (maybe 1.5 hours) to farmland, and then we had trouble finding the main…

January 16 2016 Another Christmas Present Trip! After getting us tickets to go to St. Petersburg last year, I think this is becoming tradition. We stayed right outside downtown Charleston, in Mount Pleasant, equidistant from downtown and plantations in the other direction. Sadly, my DSLR was out of commission for this trip…so please excuse the iPhone…

Chicago, IL Another last minute work trip, and since tickets were so cheap M decided to tag along. We ended up getting $69 round trip airplane tickets from LGA to ORD, but we bought them during non peak time and for weekdays so that may have been an anomaly. We missed our first flight (Spirit…

April 9-11, 2016 The last time I was in DC was for a day back in Spring of 2013. I’d gotten a group of friends to take the day trip all the way down from Philly….by taking a 4 AM bus. Crazy. We did a lot, but it wasn’t the BEST DAY TRIP MEMORY of…

March 2015 I admit, this was not an entirely “budget” trip. It’s a great privilege to be able to go to Europe, and with a little help from family and friends, we were able to do it as our “senior year of college” trip!  This required a lot of headaches on my part, as I usually…

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