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I spent two and a half weeks in Italy this past July. I visited the big three cities: Rome, Venice, and Florence. And I spent some of those two and a half weeks walking around and taking crowd photos. I did that for you, dear reader. You’re welcome.
Read moreIf you find me waiting at a luggage carousel at any airport in the world, assume I’ve been abducted and am trying to signal to those who know me that I am NOT ok. Because Tracy doesn’t check bags. And in this video tutorial, I’ll show you how to embrace ultra light packing–that is, packing in just a personal item.
Read moreI’ve been subscribing to ALL of the beauty subscription boxes over the past three months. My goal was to learn how to ‘do’ beauty. And boy, did I learn. I learned that there are more things in Ulta and Sephora, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Read moreEvery artist has their muse. Kerouac had Cassady. John Lennon had Yoko. Picasso had…that unreasonably young woman he was sleeping with when he painted Guernica; I read about her on a wall at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid but I don’t recall her name.
I am no different. And my muse is:
Box wine.
Read moreHi. I bet you didn’t think I’d take this whole blogging-not-about-travel thing seriously. But oh, I did. Which is why I bring to you today my second beauty subscription box unboxing video. Two-years-ago-me HATES me for typing that. Yet here we are.
Read moreYou’re a Disney Fan. And it’s time for your industry’s annual conference and the location has just been announced. And that location is: Orlando. After you get done jumping up and down shouting ZIP-ITY-DO-DAH you might pause and think:
Wait. Is it even possible to do Disney and a work trip?
Read moreIn my quest to diversify the content of both my blog and my life, I set out on a journey to learn how to ‘do’ beauty through the magic of beauty subscription boxes. This is the first in what is definitely going to be an ongoing series of both traditional and not-so-traditional unboxing videos. I say definitely because I’ve already filmed and edited like four more of these. Because when I do a thing, I do a thing.
Read moreIt’s 2019, y’all. Which is crazy. I mean, I remember being a kid in the 80s and realizing that I would probably live to see the year 2020—but I’d be all old by then. And here we are, three hundred and fifty-something days away from that very year and frighteningly close to me being all old. And speaking of crazy, do you know what else is crazy about 2019? It marks the ten year anniversary of The Suitcase Scholar.
Read moreMy end of 2018 New Years Eve message for you–musings on travel, change, and 114 nights.
Read moreI’m not sure what was more fun–spending two weeks exploring Alaska by cruise ship or recording and editing these ridiculously bad Alaska Cruise vlog episodes. For now, here’s the last installment. Sitka, where I lost my heart. I mean eye. Where I almost lost my eye.
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