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      • Hawaii
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  • About
  • Travel
    • Weekend getaways
    • What to pack
    • Locations
      • California
        • Los Angeles
        • Southern Cali
        • Northern Cali
        • Central Cali
      • Hawaii
        • Maui
      • Atlanta
      • East Coast
      • South America
        • Colombia
        • Peru
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  • Travel

    10 reasons a honeymoon safari isn’t as sexy as you think (and 1 reason it’s the MOST sexy)

    One afternoon on our honeymoon safari, while bundled up in the back of an open-aired Jeep, surrounded by biting flies, waiting for a cheetah to murder an impala before it started to rain, I realized: a safari honeymoon is nowhere near as sexy as I thought it would be. Here are the top 10 reasons why:

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    Megan Finley Horowitz

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    The “bacano” bites and best restaurants of Bogota

    October 4, 2017

    The not-to-miss, best restaurants in Edinburgh

    October 6, 2017

    Where to get some truly life-changing pancakes in LA

    June 4, 2018
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    Travel

    Snow, swan boats and sulfur: Our quick trip to Hakone

    Mike: Megan gets a little overwhelmed in New York, so I thought she might get triggered in Tokyo, being surrounded by endless skyscrapers. When we booked our trip to Japan, I scheduled a night in the mountain town of Hakone as a brief respite from the city. Turned out that Megan was just fine in Tokyo, but we’re still glad we hit this charming resort spot. Megan: After our six days in Tokyo, we jumped on the RomanceCar (the not-really-appropriate name for the very-ordinary train to Hakone) and left the city behind…

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    Where to find the best waffles in Los Angeles

    October 10, 2017

    Take a day trip to the Elephant Nature Park in Chang Mai

    November 10, 2018

    Bites, bears, and Badmaash-ups: The Best of The Taste 2016

    October 11, 2016
  • Travel

    Drunk on kitsch and booze: Our first foodie trip to Tokyo

    Last year, Mike and I decided to take a last-minute foodie trip to Tokyo. It was both of our first times in Japan. Here’s Part One of our oral history: Our time in Tokyo. Day One: Shinjuku and Golden Gai Mike: We got our first taste of Japan on the train from the Haneda airport to our hotel in Shinjuku. People were extremely quiet and extremely courteous (even offering to help as I bumbled through buying a train ticket). There was no litter anywhere. And every element of life has been intelligently considered and perfectly engineered. Nothing in Japan happens by accident. Megan: I still don’t think I’ve had as…

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    All the Tanzania safari tips we wish we knew before we left

    April 10, 2018

    The best date restaurants Los Angeles has to offer (that even picky eaters will love)

    August 13, 2017

    Our first interview!: The 5 best things about being a foodie

    August 10, 2017
  • Style-ish,  Travel

    How I packed for my weekend trip with one carry on

    I never feel more badass than when I board a plane with only a carry-on, then get off and walk straight to the pickup curb. That’s right, I just used a plane as a freaking taxi, yo! And it’s because I’m pretty good at packing light. My top tricks for packing light include: A simple color palette (mine is always black and grey) High-end athleisure wear (Athleta is my go-to for comfort and style) Comfortable walking shoes that can also look dressy (I’ll get to that later) Wearing the bulkiest items on the plane (coats, extra layers, bigger shoes, etc) We just flew from Atlanta to Sacramento for the weekend,…

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    Megan Finley Horowitz

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    20+ fantastic Vancouver restaurants to satisfy every craving

    April 16, 2018

    Pack for a Purpose: How to use your vacation to bring needed supplies to local communities

    March 12, 2018

    A quick list of the (lobbyist approved!) best restaurants in Sacramento

    November 28, 2017
  • Travel

    From sobremesas to so much cheese: The 12 things I learned about Buenos Aires

    Mike traveled to Buenos Aires a little while back. These are excerpts from the journal he kept while there… It’s 9:45 on a Sunday morning in November, and Buenos Aires is a ghost town. Guess this can be expected when everyone stays out until 5 am, which apparently is the norm on a Saturday night. I’m sitting a cafe right out of what I imagined Buenos Aires to be… and when the friendly waitress walks over, I’m reminded for the fifth time in five straight encounters: I don’t speak Spanish. (It’s as if 15 minutes of Rosetta Stone for a single month isn’t enough to master a language!) I order…

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    From hotels to campsites: Where to stay in Anderson Valley

    April 24, 2018

    Hitch a ride on a Vancouver seaplane for a magical vehicular tourist activity

    May 2, 2018

    Our first “Married” Christmas in Cusco, Peru

    December 25, 2018
  • Style-ish,  Travel

    #Morocstars: Tips for managing your “traveling women in Morocco” anxiety

    While Mike was producing Prison Break Season 5, we got the opportunity to go to Morocco, since they needed to use the desert town of Ouarzazate for their exterior “Yemen” scenes.) This meant we’d be “living” in Morocco for almost three weeks. While I was excited as hell about traveling to Morocco, I was worried about a few things… I googled stuff obsessively: “Women in Morocco,” “what to wear in Morocco,” “American women in Morocco,” “living in the Berbere Palace,” and on and on and on… including brushing up on my travel safety tips and freaking myself out a little bit more. But in short: Living in Morocco is a lot more…

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    Drunk on kitsch and booze: Our first foodie trip to Tokyo

    January 30, 2018

    These noise canceling headphones are perfect for travel

    October 5, 2017

    How to make a Pisco Sour (according to Peruvians)

    December 29, 2017
  • Travel

    “Happy Hallowsemite!” Our last-minute weekend trip to Yosemite in October

    It had been a couple of months since our last weekend trip, and Mike and I had been itching to get out-of-town again. Based on a genius hunch, Mike checked to see if there might be some last-minute availability in Yosemite in October — specifically over Halloween weekend. Lo and behold, he was right! He snapped up the (seemingly) last-remaining room at the Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, and the last-remaining dinner reservation at the Ahwahnee (now “The Majestic Yosemite Hotel”) and we were off on a weekend trip to Yosemite! Here’s the thing, I grew up in Los Angeles, only four and a half hours away from Yosemite, and…

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    January 4, 2018

    5 things I learned from my first Fall on the East Coast

    October 5, 2017

    Leaving a cat alone isn’t scary because of my team of robots

    June 19, 2016
  • Travel

    The perfect recipe for a weekend trip to the Santa Ynez Valley

    For my mother-in-law’s 70th birthday we rented an awesome house and had a perfect, fun and sun-filled family weekend trip to Santa Ynez Valley. It was easy and successful because we had a team of producers (the Horowitz siblings) mostly running the show. If you’re thinking of taking your own weekend trip to the Santa Ynez Valley, here’s a peak at our itinerary, complete with grocery shopping list! (Don’t get used to that though.) Day one Arrive at your (hopefully awesome) rental home We highly recommend the house we stayed in — it has incredible views, a pool, spa, four bedrooms, and an adorable GIANT dog to frolic with… Dinner:…

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    Perfect pancakes: Gifts, recipes, and goodies for pancake lovers

    December 5, 2017

    Where to find the best chicken and waffles in LA

    October 18, 2017

    Secretly amazing wine, famous local beers, and hugging giant trees: Things to do in Anderson Valley

    March 20, 2018
  • Pets,  Travel

    My ode to the best travel pet carrier ever

    I agonized for weeks over what pet carrier to get for Pita. She’s a small dog (8-10lbs) but not a TINY TINY dog. And the space under airline seats (much like overhead bins) are so unpredictable. I also didn’t want to have to carry her on my shoulder the entire time (bad back). So I needed something big enough for her to move around comfortably in, but not so big that it didn’t fit under any seat, and something that I could wheel and/or wear like a backpack. After opening about approximately 36 Amazon pages of travel pet carriers, I started whittling away at them… This one’s not squishy enough,…

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    Watch this backwards and upside-down spin on Thai rolled ice cream

    November 3, 2017

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    October 5, 2017

    How I completed my Machu Picchu packing list almost entirely from one site

    February 2, 2018
  • Travel

    #EatDrinkDesire part 2: In which we bring non-erotic softcore porn to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    We already filled you in on part one of our trip: My birthday experience in London. Now it’s time to tell you about Edinburgh — the trip you helped make possible. Here’s the Mike and Megan oral history of bring their softcore porn play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Mike: We arrived in the center of Edinburgh and walked to the Carnal Desire Team’s Scotland Street flat. One of two that we rented for our actors. It was a fairly nice place: big rooms, high ceilings, great location, and huge windows with views of gorgeous church steeples and green trees. Only problem: there was a single bathroom for six people.…

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