When I started this travel blog in January, I didn't have a single trip planned. I just wanted to write about my favorite subject — travel — and hoped for the best. I figured at the very least I could write about my past adventures, discuss general travel issues and feature my friend's trips, magazine-style. […]

(Golden Palace in Kyoto, photos by Will Harris) I once wrote a guest blog post for VelvetEscape.com about how Americans tend to see the world in 7-10 day spurts because of the limited vacation time we get from work — usually just 10-15 work days off for the entire year. (Of course, I'm talking about […]

There were certain things I was expecting on my trip to Grenada, such as beautiful beaches and spectacular sunsets. But I wasn't expecting to encounter monkeys. Perhaps I should have been because Grenada has rain forest and monkeys seem to like rain forests (as do I). Meeting my first Mona Monkey on Sunday at the […]

Well, Grenada is just as gorgeous as I had hoped, as you can see in the photo above of Grand Anse beach, which is right where I'm staying. Grand Anse is like a vacation advertisement come to life: two miles of white sand surrounding a sheltered cove. It has that calm, warm water that lure […]

I’m leaving for Grenanda tonight, and I can’t wait to see The Spice of the Caribbean. It earned its nickname for nutmeg production and, well, its location in the Caribbean Sea. I’ve been to Caribbean islands before but never to one this far south — Grenada is about 200 miles northeast of Venezuela. My last […]

(View of the Portsmouth Fish Pier, photos by Maggie Overfelt Valentine) Guest blogger Maggie Overfelt Valentine, who has recently shared photos with Travelogged of her honeymoon to Maui and Kauai, spent a weekend at the end of the summer in the seaside town of Portsmouth, NH. When I went to Kennebunkport, Maine, last summer, I […]

The Smallest House in Great Britain happens to be in Conwy, Wales. So what’s the largest house in Conwy? Conwy Castle, of course.