Journey Juju

It's Happening Elsewhere

2010-08-08T15:08:22-06:00

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not posting on this blog these days! You can find my posts about creativity, enjoying your writing life, and my weekly web TV show Juju Infusion at my Original Impulse blog.

Thanks for reading and enjoy your journey!

Look, over there, Cynthia's still posting!

Curious?

2010-03-17T15:12:34-06:00

Cynthia Morris

One Perfect Taste: Choc-O-Lait Hot Chocolate

2010-03-11T09:53:19-07:00

One of my favorite creative travel keys invites you to savor one perfect sip or bite. You know when you've come across a food that you want to last in your mouth forever.

When this happens, slow way down and savor that one perfect bite or sip.

One day in Amsterdam, I savored a perfect sip of the most delicious hot chocolate in the world...

The chocolate is a cube on a stick that you dip in hot milk...

Of course, it's recommended to lick the cube while it's all hot and milky...

then top with accompanying whipped cream for the perfect Amster-treat.

I wanted to bring a case back but settled for a few of these Choc-O-Lait hot chocolates.

mmmmmmm..........

What's one perfect taste that you've experienced on the road or at home? What one perfect taste will you savor today?

Winner of the Dream Trip Giveaway

2010-03-01T09:29:17-07:00

Thanks to all who commented on my post, Dream Trip Giveaway. It was delightful to hear about everyone's dream trips!

I drew a winner at random and it's Clara, whose dream trip is to Argentina. Thanks for sharing your tango story with us!

Clara, please contact me with your email address so I can send you copies of the Creative Travel Toolkit and The Graceful Return.

Thanks to those who guessed the location of the photos. The first photo is at Chenonceau, a chateau in the Loire Valley in France. The other is in San Francisco. No one guessed the exact location of the first French photo, but thanks for playing along!

Dream Trip Giveaway

2010-02-23T14:37:34-07:00

It may be known that I don't like February so much - winter bleakness bums me out! - so it's a time rife with fantasy.

I block weeks out of my calendar with things like "Go to California" when I haven't booked a ticket or made real plans.

I ask myself things like, "If you could go anywhere next month, if money and time were not obstacles, where would you go and why?"

Then I answer.

I'd go to Bali. I'd go there because I hear it is beautiful, colorful and sacred, and when the winter blahs come after me, I need those precious things.

I also go around asking others that same question. Hearing about others' dream trips gives me a little boost of excitement. Plus it helps me know them better.

So, to you, I ask this question.

"If you could go anywhere next month, if money and time were not obstacles, where would you go and why?"

Answer in a comment here on the Journey Juju blog and you'll be entered into a drawing for copies of my e-books, The Creative Toolkit for Travelers and The Graceful Return: Relish Your Adventure After You've Come Home.

By the way, after I declared that I wanted to go to Bali, I was invited to go speak at a writing workshop there. Unfortunately I'll be in Rome in October, but I can't help thinking it was a bit of journey juju, n'est-ce pas?

Share your dream trip here so you can enjoy your dream and real trips even more. And maybe invoke some of your own journey juju!

One winner will be drawn at random from comments left here before March 1st, 2010. Tell your friends - help everyone defeat winter blahs with luscious travel fantasies!

Bonus giveaway! Name the locations of the first two photos above and I'll give you a copy of The Creative Toolkit for Travelers for being extra clever. The last photo was taken in Portugal, near Sintra.