Author: Jill Meinecke

It’s safe to say all my recipes worked out and were delicious. Check out that plate!   Eff yeah, collard greens.

So, you think you’re a professional drinker? Partied with the best of them in college, always the last one to pass out? It doesn’t matter how many people you think you can drink under the table. NOBODY (no normal person, anyway) could possibly be ready for the drinking Olympics that is the Kentucky Derby. People…

Another week, another roundup. Here’s this week’s BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel  prompts and responses! Prompt #13: HOMEFor some people, no matter how much they love traveling, there’s always no place like home. Other travelers make their homes wherever they happen to be. Tell us about your home – where is it and why do you…

Time for this week’s roundup of BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel project. Each new day brings a new travel topic to expand upon. This week, I present a photo essay of the prompts. Prompt #9: One Day  Travel helps us better appreciate the present moment instead of always looking to the next thing. Describe…

Canyon comprised of five different fern species

It’s time for the next installment of BootsnAll‘s 30 Days of Indie Travel challenge! Prompt 5: KINDNESS – One of the greatest joys of travel can be the random acts of kindness you’ll receive from total strangers. Have you ever found kindness from strangers in unexpected places?Absolutely. Sometimes I laugh at myself for being scared…

I left the house unprepared. It was 4:30 a.m. and I was on my way to thePhiladelphia International Airport. I parked near a friend’s house ready to make the mile-long trek to the Elstation with my suitcase and two carry-ons. As I walked through the dark neighborhood,a working class part of the city now populated…

The writing events going on in the month of November seem endless. The one I want to participate in is BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel. Are you participating? The concept is easy and encouraging: Each day to your emailbox, you are provided a prompt to blog on. Between moving and other projects, and inspired…

Public transportation never used to be my thing, living in suburbia and all. And then I moved to the city of Philadelphia, traveling up and down/to and from the east coast with the help of public transportation. I’ve converted! I’m a changed woman!  It’s easy to be intimidated by a different city’s public transportation system.…