Travel

From late night bites to catching up with friends, diners provide a familiar setting for so many of life’s moments. Here’s why we love diners.

In a shopping center in South Portland, Maine, sits a local gem: a locally owned poke place. Here’s a look inside Big Fin Poke. Coworkers introduced me to sushi almost 20 years ago and a world opened up. Soon, a friend was dragging me to all his favorite sushi bars for lunch and I was …

New York food is spectacular. From the elegant restaurants to street food, there’s so much to enjoy on an edible trip through New York. New York has been called the “melting pot” since the onset of the 20th century — and for good reason. It remains an important entry point of immigration (despite Ellis Island …

Heading to Philadelphia? It’s a city filled with history including a little food history. Reading Terminal Market, one of the largest and oldest public markets in the United States, has been a go-to for groceries and foodstuffs for more than a century. Filled with excellent food, vendors and more, Reading Terminal Market has inhabited its …

The Go Boston Card is an attractions pass where you pay ahead for discounts on attractions. There’s also an all-inclusive pass. I was gifted an all-inclusive pass by Smart Destinations to facilitate this post, but all opinions are my own. Also, this post contains affiliate links which provide me a small commission (at no cost …

Remember when I vowed to make 2018 a year of travel for us? I wasn’t kidding. In February, my kids and I made our annual trek to Boston. You’d think going nearly every year we’d have had seen everything by now — but we haven’t. There’s still so much for us to discover, check out …

It’s an early morning when we board the coach bound for Boston. The bus is clean, with blue fuzzy fabric covered seats. There’s plenty of free seats. My daughter selects a row close to the front, two seats together for she and my son, one across the aisle for me. We settle in. Headphones in …

Finelli New York Pizzeria in Ellsworth serves a thin, New York-style pizza with great flavor, texture and taste. It’s good Maine pizza — and worth the drive. I nearly titled this post “the pizza we’ll drive 45 minutes to eat.” And with good reason — that’s precisely what we did last weekend. I really wanted …

Located at 7 Congress Square, the Portland Museum of Art sits at an intersection of roads and art and culture and coffee. This public art institution was founded in 1882 as the Portland Society of Arts, and bears the distinction of being the oldest and largest public art institution in Maine. Outside, an 8-foot tall …

One year, the kids and I drove to Philadelphia for a school vacation. On our first day, we walked to a little restaurant where we ate paninis and planned our adventures. We spent days wandering around museums, historic sites and taking tours. We ate again and again from the vendors at the Reading Terminal Market. …