Ever wanted to sail away on your very own odyssey? Me, too (minus the trouble he went through to get home).

If you love days filled with relaxing, water activities, and learning about the ancient history of a place, I’ve got the perfect travel plan for you. 

This journey focuses on some truly unique educational and historic places along Turkey’s Mediterranean coast just south of Fethiye, while allowing plenty of time and space to just be.

I have the best book to share with you today! Shari Leid's new travel memoir, Table for 51: Lessons Learned from Sharing Meals Across America, published by Capucia Publishing, shares her incredible series of journeys across our country. It's also an inspiring call for us to reach out, connect, reflect, and grow. 

This lovely, fascinating, gorgeous new edition of The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs, written by Dr. Richard Smith and published by Apollo Publishers, is a must-read.

I am so happy to share a funny, interesting, and (joyfully) timely book! The Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline, written by Dave Birkett and published by Reedy Press, is an excellent read and visual treasure.

Williamsburg’s cobblestone streets are seeped with revolution, resistance, and restlessness. While the ancient buildings tell a story of the budding birth of a nation, they also tell a story of ghosts, spirits, and specters. 

Haunted Colonial Williamsburg - Copyright US Ghost Adventures

I live to eat. I travel for food. But there’s a higher calling out there, and you’re about to discover it (and, subsequently, make some travel plans of your own). Yes. It’s true. There’s a whole WORLD of Chocolate Museums (swoon).

From our very youngest age, books are windows to the world. Perhaps it started for us in a small room with a fireplace, staring out at the beautiful moon...or hopping fences to explore a garden (and enjoy a meal). Then came funky Suessian lands, perhaps a wardrobe, flying to a pirate-infested island, or leaving the coziest home ever to go on an adventure. In our family, the entire Odyssey was narrated to our daughter while swimming every day in our lake (started when she was 4, this lasted years, seemingly as long as his journey. But I digress).