Dreaming of
When I’m not traveling, I like nothing better than to think about places I’ve been or places I’d like to go. The posts listed here include all of my “Mondays are for dreaming” posts; hopefully they will inspire a few daydreams of your own.
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- And the winner is…
- I know we’re all tired of hearing about elections
- Looking back…looking forward
- Mondays are for dreaming: 13 months on the road
- Mondays are for dreaming: A country fair
- Mondays are for dreaming: A departure from your regularly scheduled program
- Mondays are for dreaming: A family-friendly stay at the Hill Farm Inn
- Mondays are for dreaming: A look back at 2009
- Mondays are for dreaming: a new and improved MOAT!
- Mondays are for dreaming: A new world
- Mondays are for dreaming: A return from the dark side
- Mondays are for dreaming: A school in Cambodia
- Mondays are for dreaming: A spa vacation in Vietnam
- Mondays are for dreaming: A trip around the blogosphere
- Mondays are for dreaming: A trip through the archives
- Mondays are for dreaming: A trip to the other side of the world
- Mondays are for dreaming: An overnight at Willow Valley
- Mondays are for dreaming: Bali
- Mondays are for dreaming: Barcelona
- Mondays are for dreaming: Boston
- Mondays are for dreaming: Christmas in London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Colonial Williamsburg (and beyond) in the Truckster
- Mondays are for dreaming: Copperwynd Resort
- Mondays are for dreaming: Coram’s Fields
- Mondays are for dreaming: Cruising with kids
- Mondays are for dreaming: Discounted tickets for the Big Apple Circus
- Mondays are for dreaming: Endless summer…not!
- Mondays are for dreaming: Fenway Park
- Mondays are for dreaming: Flip Ultra anyone?
- Mondays are for dreaming: Florence
- Mondays are for dreaming: Flying fearlessly
- Mondays are for dreaming: Future nomads
- Mondays are for dreaming: Glendalough
- Mondays are for dreaming: Home for the holidays
- Mondays are for dreaming: Home sweet home
- Mondays are for dreaming: Hotel Lancelot
- Mondays are for dreaming: Jaipur, India
- Mondays are for dreaming: Kinsarvik, Norway
- Mondays are for dreaming: Ladurée
- Mondays are for dreaming: Lake Champlain
- Mondays are for dreaming: London
- Mondays are for dreaming: London by bike
- Mondays are for dreaming: Looking up in Oxford
- Mondays are for dreaming: Lost city of Atlantis
- Mondays are for dreaming: Mad River Glen
- Mondays are for dreaming: Melbourne, Australia
- Mondays are for dreaming: Mont Saint-Michel
- Mondays are for dreaming: Nepal
- Mondays are for dreaming: New York City
- Mondays are for dreaming: Off to the Caribbean
- Mondays are for dreaming: Oxford’s spires
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pacific Grove
- Mondays are for dreaming: Paris eats
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pasadena
- Mondays are for dreaming: Passports With Purpose
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pastries and fishes
- Mondays are for dreaming: Philadelphia
- Mondays are for dreaming: Playing in the Vermont snow
- Mondays are for dreaming: Rest stops in Iowa
- Mondays are for dreaming: Returning to London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Romance in Rome
- Mondays are for dreaming: Santorini
- Mondays are for dreaming: Seattle
- Mondays are for dreaming: Spring at Winterthur
- Mondays are for dreaming: Stoke Newington
- Mondays are for dreaming: Summer road trips
- Mondays are for dreaming: Summer trips
- Mondays are for dreaming: Swimming with the dolphins
- Mondays are for dreaming: Tea, peace, welcome, Vermont
- Mondays are for dreaming: Thailand
- Mondays are for dreaming: The 2010 Winter Olympics
- Mondays are for dreaming: The Angel Tree
- Mondays are for dreaming: The children of India
- Mondays are for dreaming: The Empire State Building
- Mondays are for dreaming: The gray whale migration
- Mondays are for dreaming: The Great Barrier Reef
- Mondays are for dreaming: The Land of the Sweets
- Mondays are for dreaming: The London Eye
- Mondays are for dreaming: The places my stroller has gone
- Mondays are for dreaming: The road ahead
- Mondays are for dreaming: The view outside my own window
- Mondays are for dreaming: Turning 40 in the Truckster
- Mondays are for dreaming: Venice
- Mondays are for dreaming: Vermont (or should I say “the driveway moment”?)
- Mondays are for dreaming: Views of London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Vinalhaven
- Mondays are for dreaming: Where a passport can take you
- Mondays are for dreaming: Win a family vacation in San Antonio
- Mondays are for dreaming: Zilker Park
- My favorite road sign of all time
- Pelicans, penguins, and seals – oh my! Exploring Kangaroo Island with kids
- Where to stay (and put your car) at JFK Airport
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I don’t usually share posts that are primarily photos (since I don’t really consider myself a photographer) but sometimes the perfect words elude me, especially when it comes to a place as gorgeous and magical as Oxford. Looking at these pictures, it amazes me I don’t still have a crick in my neck, I spent [...]
Now is usually the time to write the obligatory “summer is ending and I’m feeling wistful” post, but to do so would be disingenuous. Yes, I love fireflies and ice cream and corn-on-the-cob as much as the next person, but you know what I don’t like? Mosquitoes. Heat and humidity. Aimless children bickering in the [...]
When the boys said they wanted to go up in the London Eye I was dubious. Expensive, crowded, tourist trap…these were the words that came to my mind. And yet as we approached it on the afternoon of our ride I realized that like the Eiffel Tower it has a beauty all its own that [...]
When I was recently in London, I was lucky to spend an afternoon hanging out at Coram’s Fields with Victoria Wallop and her son Dickon. (And you can tell, by the way, that we were two solo moms trying to cram about three days worth of conversation into part of an afternoon while watching our [...]
I’d like to interrupt my series of London posts (don’t worry, I’ve got lots more planned) to share something that is currently going on in Mother-Of-All-Trips land. I’ve been thinking over the past few days about the amount of traveling I’ve done since last August. There was of course the annual trip to Vermont, followed [...]
















