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Go read about my adventures on florence.matadoru.com!

Since I'm doing such a great job keeping this travel blog updated -- yes, that IS sarcasm in use there -- I have decided to start another one!

Okay, what's really happening is that I am finally starting my Matador U Travel Writing Course. I am uber excited about this one! For the next few months I will be learning about the ins and outs of travel writing. I have to upkeep a blog to go along with it, so most likely I will have to ignore this one for a bit and focus on that. If you'd like to keep up with that one, it's also On Wanderlust: http://florence.matadoru.com/.

I will still be updating up my "2011 So Far..." list on this blog, though. I'm really enjoying seeing where all my adventures for the year are taking me, and I hope you are, too!

Road trippin'

Image from bgsu.edu

I'm taking a mini trip this weekend to see a friend in Naples. Florida, not Italy. I may be going to Naples, Italy next year though! Press your thumbs, as my friend in Germany always says! (It's the same thing as crossing your fingers.)  Back but to the trip this weekend: It'll be a nice, sunny (I'm being optimistic, people! The Secret works!) drive to the other side of the state.

When I was in high school, my family drove to visit my sister in college every year. It was about a 14 hour drive, I believe. So every year, I made mix tapes (and I just dated myself!) to help make the trip more bearable.

Later on when I went to college and eventually grad school, I started making mixed CDs (see, we've moved up!) of my own for the trips. I literally made a new one every semester, and they're named things like "Christmas [Insert Year]."

Anyway, I was just thinking about all this. Maybe I'll make a playlist for my iPod (this blog post could just be about upgrades in music technology -- lol!) just for this trip.

What would you put on a road trip playlist?

Flo #Fail

Yeah, so what I said about writing on this blog more than once every six months....? *cough, cough*

Well, I have been keeping the "2011 So Far" list updated, at least. Can I get a cookie for that?

Seriously, though, I have lots of trips in the works (as always!) so stay tuned...

My Daily Horoscope

Aries - February 2, 2011

Your innate sense of adventure is active today, Aries. Travel is on your mind. You and some friends may kick around ideas for an unconventional trip to an exotic place, such as sailing to Tahiti. The urge could pass, but it might not. Do some research and find out what your options really are. It might not work out as you visualized, but a little adventure could do you some good.

Source

New Years Eve

For the second New Years Eve in a row, my Seminoles have led me to another city to ring in the New Year. This year was Atlanta, where they were participating in the Chick-Fil-A bowl against the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

2011

Hi there. Yup. I've stopped by for my once-every-six-months post. Except, it's the end of the year now, and you know what that means. New Years Resolutions! One of my resolutions for 2011 is to write more. As I mentioned in an earlier post, writing & travel are my two great loves. Well, I did a lot of traveling in 2010, but not nearly enough writing.

Here's to a new year!

I'm not going to promise that I'll be posting here everyday, as I went from no blogs to now 4 blogs in about a month. But I am going to try. And hopefully that will get me farther than before.

Here are some great trips I have planned for 2011 thus far: The Land Down Under, two weddings, a movie set visit, a celebrity cruise and a theme trip out West. Intrigued? Well stayed tuned! You can hear all about them right here at On Wanderlust.

Elizabeth Gilbert is ON KEY!

"Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby--I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me."
~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (emphases are my own)