This is a guest post by Kirk Shackleton. The Algarve has never really held much of an attraction for me. I prefer to risk twisting my ankle off the beaten path, which is something I always assumed would be difficult on Portugal’s well-trodden southern crust. In my mind, I imagined a canvas painted with horizontalContinue reading “Seeking solitude in the Algarve”
Author Archives: dtravelsround
What now?
The End. Well … not really The End. More like The Beginning of the Next Chapter. Where am I now? I am in Las Vegas. Working for a restaurant group as the director of communications. What does that mean? I do a lot of writing, pitching, social networking and eating. I do so, so muchContinue reading “What now?”
Arriving
What’s the first thing I did after booking my plane ticket? I told the “world” I did it. Via Facebook. Via Twitter. Via text message. Via phone calls. This was one of those moments I wanted to share with everyone I knew. I figured it out! I’m going to try and make this work. IContinue reading “Arriving”
Coming clean
My head was pressed against the steering wheel as I cried into my speakers on the phone with Shane. “I just can’t do this anymore,” I sobbed. “I don’t want to be here. I want to be in Las Vegas. Or Europe. I am so stuck!” It had been more than a week since IContinue reading “Coming clean”
You got to have faith
“I want to move back to Las Vegas, for real,” I said, turning to my best friend, Shane, who was driving us to his parents home so I could see them before I left town in a few hours. “No, you don’t,” he said. “D, I know you.” He was right. There are very fewContinue reading “You got to have faith”
The top 25 reasons why I Love Las Vegas (The List)
25. There is no last call. Unless you are at a club, then you catch last call and head to ANY other bar in the world because they will always be open. 24. The shopping. Ummm … the world’s biggest H & M; window-shopping through Wynn, the Forum and The Shoppes at The Palazzo; theContinue reading “The top 25 reasons why I Love Las Vegas (The List)”
Some place with a view
I sat in the back of Brock’s SUV, looking out into the nighttime desert landscape … flat and black, giving way to the Strip a few miles ahead of us. It had been an emotional six days in Las Vegas. I had arrived days earlier and spent my first night with Kyla, showing her photosContinue reading “Some place with a view”
Viva Lost Wages
Oh. My. God. Did I just fall back in love with Las Vegas? I rubbed my eyes and shook off my nearly six(!) hour flight. Thanks, headwinds. Las [insert expletive here] Vegas. A rush of emotions filled me silmutaneously. First — happiness. I was seeing some of my closest friends in the world after aContinue reading “Viva Lost Wages”
That familiar feeling
Las Vegas. I have had a love/hate relationship with Sin City since I moved there in 2005. Back then, I was a scared mid-20s girl, trying to gracefully exit a number of things: a destructive relationship, a crap job, living with my parents (thank you, Mom and Dad, I love you), as well as tryingContinue reading “That familiar feeling”
Purgatory
I landed in Las Vegas 12 days after my Escape from Suburbia to celebrate my birthday. Between my road trip with Jason and Las Vegs I was stuck in this hell. This … purgatory. The transition from traveling to arriving home to getting your shit together is the biggest mind f#$% in the world. TheContinue reading “Purgatory”
D Travels 'Round 