2022 Travel Year in Review: a Topsy-Turvy Route to Find Balance
Traveling 93 days through twenty states is an unusual way to find balance, but when you’re a travel writer, it works.
Traveling 93 days through twenty states is an unusual way to find balance, but when you’re a travel writer, it works.
It’s taken me a long time to write this piece. Not because of the writing; that didn’t take long. But processing, and understanding, my emotions? I’m still not done with …
Start where the Mother Road begins and explore Route 66 in Illinois.
I looked over the top of the Merchandise Mart at the Sears Tower and smelled chocolate. I could hear the Brown Line seventeen floors below me. It was a new …
Hi. My name’s Theresa and I’m The Local Tourist. Have we met? Well, then, please allow me to introduce myself. I’ve been thinking lately that it was time. Mainly, because …
I went to the doctor for what I thought would be a routine checkup. Not that I would recognize a routine checkup if I saw one. I hadn’t been to …
When my alarm dinged at five I’d already been up for an hour and a half. Not by choice. I was anxious and excited. That day I would leave to …
What it’s like to get tested at a free Illinois COVID-19 Testing Site Since the seriousness of COVID-19 began to hit home mid-March, Mr. TLT and I have been cautious. …
Road trips capture the imagination like no other travel.
As we got back on I-40 for the short drive, relatively speaking, to Albuquerque, I thought about everything we’d seen and done since we’d left home only six days ago. …
No matter where you go, you can find something unique. Every place is worth visiting, and your visit matters.