by Jayme Lamm Maybe I’m finally growing up, but I used to live under the guise that the hotel you stayed in didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of all things vacation – especially when visiting a city like New Orleans. Why? Because you’ll spend 90% of your time on Bourbon Street rather than…
by Jayme Lamm I hit a bit of a snag as I attempted to go through customs in Vancouver a few weeks back. As I tried to explain I was a travel writer visiting Vancouver from Texas, I couldn’t quite place the Custom agent’s look of disdain. Was she jealous of my amazing travel gig…
As someone who recently branched into the adventurous realm of travel writing, the one thing that makes it a little hard jet setting each and every week is leaving behind my 23lb teacup Chihuahua, Denali. And no, that is not a typo. On the rare occasion I get to travel with Denali, a combined mix…
by Jayme Lamm Having been an avid snowboarder for 15+ years, I still can’t adjust to mountains and resorts whose lifts close mid-afternoon – those are valuable hours with or without sunshine that I could be shredding down the mountain on my trusty ole Burton board. On my 3:15pm run on each and every trip…
by Jayme Lamm One of my favorite things about traveling always has and always will be the variety of hotels I stay at. Each one usually has some distinct charm and I’m amazed at how such a simple concept of a bed and a roof can be manifested in a thousand different ways. A few…
by Jayme Lamm Hands down, Aspen may just have been the best vacation I’ve ever had. I don’t know if there’s a precise scale for vacationing (like a Zagat rated restaurant per se), but it undoubtedly has a lot to do with the time of year (weather playing an obvious factor), the activities you partake…
Translation: I’m in love with the El Dorado Hotel and its in-house restaurant, El Dorado Kitchen. I’m certainly not one who falls in love frequently or easily and there isn’t an industry that holds more truth in that statement than the hotel/travel sector. It seems every time I travel, something goes wrong; like Murphy’s Law…