Travel theme: Golden

As simple as it is, there’s nothing more golden to the taste or to the eye than a fluffy, moist Southern biscuit drizzled with honey — maybe even sitting on a yellow plate!  Mmmmm. As seen and eaten at: Tupelo Honey Cafe, 1 Market Square, Knoxville, TN 37902 (865.522.0004) Follow Tupelo Honey Cafe on Facebook  and […]

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Travel theme: Arches

Creamy, aged arches greeted us at Amer Fort (also known as Amber Fort) near Jaipur, India.  In the section known as Sattais Kacheri, the carefully outlined, exquisitely beautiful arches with scalloped shapes become even more interesting as we moved around them, noticing what seemed to be an endless maze. The columns stand soldier-like in just-so […]

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Travel theme: Pink

You know how sometimes you see a word in print, and it sticks with you — not just that day, but sometimes for days afterward?  Well, that’s what happened with this week’s Travel Theme by Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack?  When I read Travel theme: Pink, I was on my way to Baton Rouge to […]

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Travel theme: Connections

This week, Ailsa, who writes Where’s My Backpack issued the weekly Travel Theme focused on Connections.  One event quickly came to mind. My husband and I joined a Habitat for Humanity International build in Nepal along with twelve other people during the summer of 2011.  Most of us were from our hometown of Knoxville, but […]

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