sassylaurie's Blog

Okay, I have mixed feelings about this. One trip I went on with some people I barely knew who were new friends. It was my Las Vegas trip.  Day two something bad happens, and I end up wandering the town by myself, convinced I need not be on a trip with friends again.  It's one year later and the trip to Encenada comes up.  I cannot express how  excited I was to go, and I told myself one more try. I have been hanging out with these people for a year.  So I end...

By Request: Okay, someone wanted to hear the funny hotel stories, so here is one.  We were trying to surspise someone with a surprise birthday party at one of the hotels in Fremont. I can't remember tha name of it right now.  So we were all waiting for Penny to get to the party with her husband, and her sister left to go to parking lot to check on something as Penny and James were pulling up.  I was also outside, trying to run without my heels to my car and back because...

Here's my spin of the buzz.  I disagree with Arthur Frommer for making it sound like someone from the travel publication world or having that type of degree would be the professional opinion
of what makes or breaks a hotel, or travel destination. I think like Gustonian said, that when you're looking for a place to stay,
it's good to get a professional opinion of someone that lives in the area, and look at reviews of people's personal experiences, not what a...

Here's the low down on these places.  I researched this as people have reviewed these places, either in gusto travel or beyond, and they all had good exeriences.  I also happen to know that people will pay money to get the 7 places to travel in travel magazines, but why pay for it it when you can get it here for free.  One destination of my top seven, I couldn't remember so I added Athens Greece.  It's one of my personal favorites to go see some day. ...

We all talk about the places we would like to go. Sometimes we forget to tell the people in our lives about the palces that we would return to, where we might have had the most fun.  So here is mine. Maui is my number one destination. I spent six days there, and five nights on an explorer package from a resort agency.  The resort was excellent. The little city Lahaina that I stayed in was the shopping city, and I went on all these tours, and sightseeing. Please check out my...