Travels With Two

Travels With Two on FareCompare 4×4

Melanie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:48:28 +0000

FareCompare, one of my favorite sites for travel deals, recently launched a new interview series: FareCompare 4×4 -Travel Tips from the Insiders. Each interview poses 4 questions to travel writers and industry insiders…and they’ve just interviewed me! The interview is titled Plan the Perfect Couples Getaway, and it offers several of my best travel tips. So, happy reading [...]

Si Como No: Yes and No

Melanie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:22:15 +0000

*For our stay at this resort, we were given a room upgrade and received discounts off all amenities; still, I managed to remain objective. Along our Costa Rica drive from the Guanacaste beaches of the northwest to the southernmost Osa Peninsula, we were advised to break our journey into two parts by staying overnight in the [...]

Hotel Sugar Beach: A Sweet Stay in Costa Rica

Melanie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:34:27 +0000

We recently traveled to a gorgeous little slice of northwestern Costa Rica called Playa Pan de Azúcar (aka Sugar Beach) to attend a family wedding at a remote and inviting resort with a calm Pacific cove, lively tidepools, a sunset sky aglow with peachy fire and a small stream that trickles [...]

Western Costa Rica: Anatomy of a Vacation

Melanie — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:33:37 +0000

When Adam’s cousin Minona invited us to her wedding on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, Adam and I clapped a high-five heard ’round the U.S. We figured that she and her then-fiancee Peter’s far-flung choice of location was a clever ploy to pare down their guest list, but it soon became clear: although [...]

Images of Western Costa Rica

Melanie — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:30:41 +0000

A few weeks ago, Adam and I headed down to Costa Rica to attend a family wedding and see what all the fuss is about this tourist-beloved, eco-conscious country. After a long weekend by the beach in northwestern Guanacaste, a spectacular drive down the Pacific Coast to the wild, remote Osa [...]

Off to the Dominican Republic

Melanie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:31:05 +0000

As a guest of the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Tourism, I’m off tomorrow with a big ol’ group of travel writers to explore this northern Caribbean country for the first time! The DR shares half of its island land mass with Haiti; while that beleaguered country’s official language is French, people in the DR largely [...]

Travels With Two on Amateur Traveler

Melanie — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:48:17 +0000

On July 2nd, travel podcast pioneer Chris Christensen did two things that I feel are pretty exciting: 1) he celebrated the 5th anniversary of his engaging, comprehensive travel website, Amateur Traveler; 2) he interviewed me about our experiences in the Cook Islands, a remote and gorgeous quadrangle of the South Pacific. Huzzah to Chris (whom I had the [...]

A Travel Blogger’s State of the Union

Melanie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:52:24 +0000

Freshly back from TBEX 2010, a travel bloggers’ conference in New York City, it would seem I’ve met my people. Sure, none of them for long enough, but as my wise father points out, two days is a woefully short amount of time to bond with as many folks as you’re likely to meet in four [...]