Travel
Death Valley & Red Rock Canyon
Jimmy and I had a wonderful vacation a few weeks ago. We went to southern California, Disneyland, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Red Rock Canyon. It was a total blast! The desert is gorgeous, but I definitely learned that I’m a girl who has to have trees around to feel at home! Check out all our pictures from the trip! Death Valley highlights Dante’s View: 7,000 feet up, get a super panoramic of the Badwater Basin (lowest point in the Western hemisphere) Zabriskie Point: We watched the sunrise here and it was breathtaking. Wish I’d had a tripod, the photos would have been amazing. Furnace Creek Ranch: Home of the 20 Mule Team borax miners, they have a date...
Read MoreLas Vegas recap
Las Vegas was pretty sweet! Not only did I have an amazing time at Blog World Expo (wow, I learned lots) but I had fun seeing the sights in the few minutes of free time I had each day! Here we are in Paris, ha ha. Vegas was a kinda weird town. I can say it’s not really my scene. I was in bed at 10pm every night, sober. Yeah, I’m an animal like that. I did enjoy the food (our meal at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant was off the chain), the scale of things (HUGE) and the always over the top interior design. Winnings report I know the burning question in everyone’s mind is, “Amber, how much money did you win with your mad gambling...
Read MoreHooray for local produce
Sunday before Mary and I headed back to Norfolk, Amanda (in her quest to convince us that Asheville is the place we need to spend the rest of our days) took us to the hugely impressive WNC Farmers Market. Here Mary demonstrates our extreme love of ugly maters (that’s tomatoes for you yankee types). I have to say some of the orifices were downright scary. I didn’t choose this lovely variety (I believe it was called Candy Stripe) but took home two gorgeous Cherokee Purples. The honey was excellent. I ended up with a small jar of the raw honey, as I like it to taste as if a bee has just puked it up in the last five minutes. (Bonus – my mom brought me...
Read MoreWe went to Asheville and ate everything.
We are the ladies who lunch. And dinner. And brunch. And eat fresh jam cookies at Amanda‘s house. I have missed my friend so much! Mary and I went to visit Amanda in Asheville this weekend (and take a little side trip to Greensboro to get my feet tattooed, but I’ll post about that when they’re healed). We spent our time touring this lovely town and sampling its amazing vegan fare. I figured I could only post pictures having to do with food during our Asheville trip and play it off like I was doing special reporting for VeganMoFo, and maybe fool y’all into thinking our whole trip didn’t revolve around food. Yeah, that’s it! First we...
Read MoreBelize Day Six – Aw man it’s over already?!
Our last day in Belize was spent much like the day before. Spent the morning relaxing, eating, reading, swimming, enjoying the beach. I miss the color already. Virginia (and North Carolina) has been covered in a haze of smoke for weeks now and sometimes I almost forget these colors exist. Everything is gray here! We went on another snorkeling trip in the afternoon. Alfonse was sick so he couldn’t take us, we ended up going with another tour group. NOT WORTH IT! Seriously if you go to Belize and want to snorkel, get Alfonse (see my previous entry) as your guide. We didn’t see one shark the whole time, the guides didn’t identify much wildlife at...
Read MoreBelize Day Five – Chillin’
Our first day with no plans. Ahhhh. We woke up and headed out to the courtyard for breakfast. Renita served us freshly squeezed juice, local tea, and two plates of fresh pineapple, papaya, grapes and melon. Next came the garnachas, a local breakfast favorite, fried corn tortillas topped with beans, shredded cabbage, salsa and cheese. She also had fried cinnamon triangle things with brown sugar and granola which were completely delicious. We ate til we were stuffed then grabbed two bikes and headed out to explore the city. We stopped at a few shops and saw a lot of San Pedro this way. Jimmy bought some shoes, we bought some souvenirs for our family, rode around and...
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