Produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau, the Trabant was the most common type of car in East Berlin during communist times. Tim and I piled into the Trabant (often referred to as a Trabi) and went on a Wild-East Trabi Safari, which took us almost entirely through the former East […]
Live Like a Local in Berlin with Go With Oh
Living like a local has become a trendy phrase recently in the travel industry. Trendy or not, I certainly feel like a local when I’m on the underground at 7am on my way to work! As a business traveler who often attends conferences in cities around the world, the last thing I want to do […]
Dinner in the Dark
Taste is such a complicated sense. Taste is connected to our other four senses and what we “taste” is influenced by smell, touch, texture, sight and even temperature. When Tim and I go wine tasting, we like to smell the wine and then swish the wine around the glass to see the wine’s “legs”, before […]
Porsche: Five Things You Didn’t Know
I generally know nothing about cars, but I do get excited over a sleek Porsche 911. I’ve even tried to convince Tim that traveling around the world in a Porsche 911 would make a great story. There is just enough room for Emma to fit in the back and I pack light. He’s not buying […]
Heidelberg Castle and the World’s Largest Wine Barrel
We managed to pack a lot into our whirlwind trip around the Stuttgart area. We spent a spooky night at Burg Frankenstein, slept in a car themed hotel, ogled fast cars at the Porsche museum, and ate all things pumpkin at the world’s largest pumpkin festival. We had just one afternoon to visit Heidelberg Castle. […]
Cochem and the Moselle River Valley
If you’re looking to go for a weekend drive then Cochem is the place to visit. Located along the Moselle River in Germany there is not a more picturesque town in the fall. The drive along the Moselle River is filled with quaint little towns and vineyards lining the hills. I’ve visited a lot of […]
The World’s Largest Pumpkin Festival
As a child I’d wait all year for Furhman’s Cider Mill to open up for the fall in my hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania. Not only could you bring your milk jugs and have them filled with the world’s best fresh apple cider, they had a huge selection of pumpkins and gords from the local nearby […]
Ghouls and Goblins at Burg Frankenstein
Tim and I first met when we were both living in Las Vegas in the early 2000s. I’m not sure I had even ever been to a Halloween haunted house before moving there for college, but each Halloween it became Tim and my tradition to visit as many of the haunted houses that temporarily popped […]
Rev Your Engine at the V8 Hotel Motorworld Stuttgart
“We can stay here,” the email from Tim read. He has always been a car guy, constantly browsing cars for sale on online classifieds and even driving to Paris one weekend just to attend the Paris Auto Show. So it was no shock when I clicked on the link to be met with pictures of […]
Castle Hunting in Germany: Burg Eltz
Being lucky enough to spend a few weeks near Kaiserslautern and Ramstein Air Base in Germany, I set off on a castle hunting trip. A friend had told me to check out Burg Eltz. Having had a busy week, I didn’t get to do much research on the castle so just looked up the town […]
