Blog
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens
Just a short drive from Baton Rouge, Louisiana you’ll find The Crown Jewel of Louisiana’s River Road, the Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, a 16 room grand antebellum estate filled with period antiques, Louisiana artwork and spectacular gardens. Beautiful inside and out, we got lost in the history and the amazing landscape. The tour guides [...]
The Best of the Road
There’s no better therapy for a midlife crisis than a road trip. This year we’re in the running to travel from coast to coast writing blogs, taking photos, writing reviews, and making videos of America’s best small towns in Rand McNally and USA TODAY’s Best of the Road Rally. We want to share the stories of America’s [...]
#Nuts Recap … Travel Therapy!
What a fun and much needed therapy session for travelers everywhere. Special thanks are in order this week to our special guests @CoupleofSports for previewing this week’s questions with us on Road Trip Radio! Q1. What’s YOUR favorite mode of travel transportation? #NUTS @amandaelsewhere If I could sail the seas and sleep to the gentle [...]
Bucket List Adventures: Hitting the (midlife) road
Travel Writer & Columnist, Kathy Witt wrote the following story about the MidLife Road Trip for McClatchy-Tribune. Another reason that not a day goes by that we don’t count our MidLife Blessings. Bucket List Adventures: Hitting the (midlife) road By KATHY WITT To eat a Belgian waffle in Belgium. Cuddle a koala bear. Meet snack maven [...]
CAPTION THIS Royal Wedding Photo of the Day
Of all the photographs taken at last year’s Royal Wedding, this one seemed to generate the most buzz on the internet. We came across this picture on Twitter during a wedding themed session of #FriFotos. We tracked it down and it seems to have come from TMZ. We need you to caption this Royal Wedding [...]
A Look Back: Tuscaloosa, Alabama devastated by Tornado One Year Ago
Last fall we were in Tuscaloosa, Alabama taping segments for Midlife Road Trip. A few months months later, the town was rocked to its very core when it was pummeled by a powerful tornado. The photos below don’t even show the enormity of the destruction. Much of the town looked like the pictures I remember [...]
Dare to Dream!
When Andrea Metcalf, Chicago’s premiere celebrity fitness expert, journalist and author of “Naked Fitness” invites you to speak at her conference along with some of the most influential & successful women in social media, you don’t ask questions; you just go. Midlife Road Trip’s own Sandi McKenna joined a virtual ‘Who’s who” of panelists [...]
Twitter Turns Six .. A Piece of Cake
The MidLife Road Trip was conceived & born on Twitter. I guess you could say we are Children of Twitter. (That’s a stretch) A simple conversation has taken the Road Trip around the world on adventure after another. So we’re celebrating your six life changing years Twitter. Without you, who knows…….. Tweet
