Choose Your Own Adventure
A river runs through it... Sometimes you just have to stop and smell what the Rock is cooking. Or something like that. It’s winter for six more weeks. Thanks, Phil. However, if each day brings this...
View ArticleHold on to Your Summer
Beach Boy What the… where did summer go? You don’t have to take this lying down — unless you’re on a beach. I would also have accepted hammock. Get thee to someplace with sun, sand and water! Stat! For...
View ArticleUpTake’s Getaway Crew is Bringing Local Back
If you can't hear the bell you've lost the spirit of Christmas. It's true. Have you been on the Facebook (now a major motion picture)? Of course you have. My parents are on it, and if my parents are on...
View ArticleVacation Planning Is So Overrated
This post comes to us from our good friend Marsha Takeda-Morrison, aka Sweatpantsmom, of the UpTake Getaway Crew Los Angeles. Read and relate! On a January day earlier this year my family and I were...
View ArticleCancun, Mexico is the Place to Be
The weather is beautiful. Wish I was here. The main difference between these people and the rest of us is that they are sipping Coronas on the beach in Cancun, Mexico and we are not. Other than that...
View ArticleCarmageddon is Upon Us!
If you are going to be traveling anywhere near Los Angeles this weekend, and by near I mean San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix, then you may want to take some precautions. Things are going down in...
View Article3 Overlooked Attractions in Washington DC
Washington, D.C. is home to numerous iconic attractions. You can’t go home without taking a picture of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and it’s practically unAmerican to visit...
View ArticleTravel Around the Internet
Did you miss me? Of course you did. Don’t fret, gentle reader, it’s time to get back on the super information highway and pick up all the travel-related hitchhikers you can carry. Don’t get greedy....
View ArticleGoodbye, Summer Vacation
Do you hear that sound? That’s right, school bells in the distance. And right behind that the last cries of children clinging to their summer vacation. Sorry, kids, everyone has to go back to school...
View ArticleFamily Beach Vacations
When Nana says, “Sunscreen,” you do it. Beaches are the perfect place for family vacations. Unlike amusement parks and museums, there is never a charge (parking or state park fees may apply), and you...
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