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Taste and Travel Tuesday: Avoiding Desperation Hunger on Travel Days

March 22, 2011

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve successfully navigated my way from one city to another by train – maneuvering the slalom course of an Italian train station (remembering to validate my train tickets along the way), negotiating my way through a crowded train car, cramming my bag into whatever luggage storage option [...]

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Taste & Travel Tuesday: James Speight Brewery Tour

March 1, 2011
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Today’s guest post is from my friend Sean Brown. Sean is one of my oldest and absolute dearest friends. We met in college at the University of Minnesota, and he’s been inspiring me ever since. He’s a great writer, a killer quarters opponent, and a wonderful friend. Sean’s currently tooling around New Zealand and this [...]

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How to Eat Your Way through Spain

February 22, 2011
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For the culinary traveler, Spain is a paradise blessed with outrageous flavors and colorful concoctions. A trip to Spain is not complete without sampling its gastronomic offerings. So what is best to eat in Spain? Contrary to most beliefs, Spanish food is more than just paella and sangria. From tapas to seafood to desserts, the myriad of Spanish cuisine is extremely diverse and the choices limitless.

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Taste & Travel Tuesday: How to Eat Locally & Seasonally When Traveling

January 25, 2011
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Ever wonder how to eat locally and seasonally while traveling? Jessica Spiegel is a travel writer based in Portland, Oregon. She works for BootsnAll, the budget travel resource, and writes BootsnAll’s Italy guide, WhyGo Italy. Here she shares three tips for eating locally and seasonally when you don’t know what the local and seasonal options are.

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Taste and Travel Tuesday (and other 2011 series)

January 4, 2011
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Happy New Year! It’s been a busy month or so here at NomadicFoodie.  I moved from Boulder, Colorado to Portland, Oregon over Christmas and am finally getting in and settled to the new digs in Stumptown. Already, Chris and I are starting to explore the sights, sounds, and tastes of this Pacific Northwest MECCA of [...]

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Photos From the Road

September 13, 2010
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Road Trip, Day Last.  On Sunday night, Chris and I were cozied up in the last hotel room of the trip, having decided to crash in Glenwood Springs after 8 hours on the road rather than push another 3-4 for more and get home late last night.  Excellent choice! We spent an hour in the [...]

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The Reno Road Trip – Day 1

September 7, 2010

Plans: get up early, tie up loose ends with regards to work and projects, hit the road by 10AM Actual: get up around 7:00 AM, work until noon, leave Boulder after lunch.  Officially hit the road at 1:45PM Needless to say, that changed a lot of our plans!  We’d originally planned to leave Monday morning [...]

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Challenge: Eating Healthy While Traveling

August 11, 2010

I eat relatively healthy at home.  I practice yoga, I like to run and occasionally I hike.  My at-home habits could use a few more greens and another day or two of yoga each week, but in general – I’m pretty good at keeping healthy habits. Healthy Jet-Setting These tend to go out the window [...]

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DTW Light Tunnel

July 7, 2010

The “B” and “C” concourses are connected to the main terminal building and the “A” Concourse by a pedestrian walkway under the tarmac. This walkway, known as the Light Tunnel, features an elaborate multi-colored light show behind sculpted glass panels extending the entire length of the walkway, as well several moving walkways. The light patterns are synchronized with [...]

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{Guest Post} The Situation in New Orleans

May 11, 2010

My roommate, Ashley, was lucky enough to spend a week in New Orleans for the first weekend of Jazz Fest. I’m a fan of Southern food myself, having lived in Memphis until I was 13, but cajun and creole food (and yes, they’re different)? That’s not quite the same menu as fried chicken, grits, and [...]

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