Earlier this week, I shared some of Olio in Iowa readers’ favorite posts from the past year. But when I sat down to look back on my year in travel, I realized there were so…
New Orleans
One Fine Day is a series inspired by my favorite now-defunct Chicago Tribune column of the same title. The posts in this series are short, sweet, sometimes themed, and always a charming snapshot of a…
When anyone asks what we did on our trip to New Orleans earlier this year, my response often begins with the things we ate. This isn’t because we didn’t see or do anything else worth talking about—I promise we did—but because in the three days we were there, we ate an incredible amount of delicious food…
Happy holidays and (almost) new year! It’s been awhile since my last big road trip and lately I’ve been itching for a new adventure. So when our year-end days off created a serendipitous four-day weekend, I knew it was time to plan another cross-country trip…