When spring arrives New Yorkers find new life. It can be a bit cold at the start however, and the balance between enjoying the outdoors and staying warm can be tricky. Our favorite spot to take it all in: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). We had a few CityPASSes for my husband and I, and our kids were covered since children under 12 are free! read more[...]
"Lake Tahoe is not a town, it's a region in both the states of CA and NV." This was one of the first lessons I learned upon arriving to the area as a guest of the Squaw Creek Resort. Like most people, I didn't really understand the geography of the area and, like most people, I had limited knowledge about how diverse the region was, or even that extends beyond the limits of one single geo[...]
Recently I returned to Samaná, a small fisherman's town in the northeastern part of the Dominican Republic where I had spent a couple of my teenage years. A lot about the area has changed. What was once a sleepy town is now a growing tourist destination. Roads that didn't exist now provide easier access to what was once one of the most secluded areas of the island. It's bittersweet,[...]
It's International Women's Day and I am sitting in the inaugural Women's Travel Festival here in NYC. I am listening to the many women doing their presentations, sharing their stories, and exposing themselves emotionally for the sake of inspiring and empowering other women to travel. It's truly a beautiful thing. It's wonderful to be surrounded by other women who share a similar passion[...]
It can be difficult as a parent to plan a romantic getaway, which of course means leaving the kids at home. As parents of three boys, my husband and I thought that getting away is something that we wouldn’t do for a long time.However, it does make it easier to get away if you have a support system that can jump in and help out with watching the kids and preparing for a trip. But, for th[...]
Today I made a phone call that I have wanted to make for about a year. I called a blogger whom I had been a total jerk to, and whom I had hurt with my words, and apologized. I took full responsibility for my words and my actions, acknowledged how they didn't deserve to be treated that way and most certainly did not deserve for me to treat them that way. I wasn't expecting that they would a[...]
For a long time, too much time within the 5 year span of my blogging, I questioned whether I belonged in certain communities where more seasoned, professional writers would gather. At some point blogging shifted away from being seen as this superfluous, casual hobby to something of value and worthy of consideration and merit. Those of us who embraced it as a career and acted so began to[...]
It's been a few months now since I visited Mexico, and I have tons of images of Mazatlán, the coastal town on my last trip there. It was the kind of place that I think I will have many stories to tell for a while, and I have worked on a piece where I will tell you even more about the area. In the meantime, I wanted to share some photos just because when I think about some of my favo[...]
Things are getting a little busy here in the Cain household and all this snow hasn't really helped much. My husband and I pride ourselves in taking time away together, but life has gotten in the way as of late. That's why on the one free weekend we managed to put aside for ourselves, we decided to take a short road trip to Hudson Valley for an overnight retreat. Lucky for us, it was als[...]
I can't really say that Las Vegas (the strip) is my thing, though I am a huge fan of what's happening in the culinary scene there and can't deny that the stage productions are truly one of a kind (a must see is Rose. Rabbit. Lie. by my friend David Foster, et. al.). I am not much of a gambler and I always feel like the not-so-fun guest in a party everyone else seems to really, really, rea[...]
