There are lots of reasons why I keep coming back to California. Since my first trip to San Francisco in the early 90s with my parents, I have traveled to California nine times – once with my parents, once with…

There are lots of reasons why I keep coming back to California. Since my first trip to San Francisco in the early 90s with my parents, I have traveled to California nine times – once with my parents, once with…
Just to get this out of the way first: I am not affiliated with Barry M., I don’t get any compensation for this review, it’s all my very own opinion, my own photos, and I even paid for the little…
Wherever you look these days social-media-wise, you just can’t avoid those ubiquitous “Looking back on 2015” posts, so I thought it’s time for one of my own. I proudly present: Looking back on 2015: Travel Edition 2015 was a pretty…
One of my very favorite travel websites, Her Packing List, offers opportunities for readers to write guest post, for example gear reviews or packing lists. As I have a serious obsession with luggage, I didn’t have to think twice about…
On our most recent trip, we got stranded at Heathrow Airport. For two days. It all started with a delay in Glasgow, on our way home from a two-week vacation in England and Scotland. We had a pretty tight schedule,…
As you can probably guess from the title, I fell hard for a small Scottish island. Very hard, actually. We first traveled to Islay in August 2014, one station on a two-week road trip through Scotland. We spent just…
My original plan was to have Jetpack publish each and every post I write here to my brand-new Facebook page and my equally brand-new Twitter. Well, turns out Jetpack has different plans. I definitely am no techie, my usual approach…
My brand-new blog is born, and even though it is still a tiny little thing, I am quite confident it will do its older sibling, mostly German willruth.rocks, proud by being its English-speaking sidekick. While willruth.rocks is the reincarnation of…