Traveling Rosie

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas, Chanukah Sameach, Heri za Kwanzaa y’all!! Thank you for being travel buddies ❤️💚🩵🖤

22/12/2024

NYC Fun fact!! It is 10 degrees F (-12C) outside and yet it’s so warm in my 100+ year old apartment that I have to open the windows (I’m not complaining!). This dates back to the 1918 pandemic, when folks first started to realize that fresh air could help stop the spread of the disease… Buildings were mandated to overheat the building so folks would open their windows. And how I do love fresh air!! (Perhaps next summer I’ll repaint the radiator.)

20/12/2024

The real NYC mafia…

17/12/2024

Some very important travel info! The UK is now requiring an electronic authorization before travel, even if one is just passing through! I've been to the UK a number of times without needing such and could easily find myself traveling without checking on requirements. This happened to a friend of mine on the Germany/Czechia border years ago when rules changed while we were traveling and she was kicked off the train. Always double check!!

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241211-the-big-changes-coming-to-uk-and-european-travel-in-2025

PHOTO: Paddington Station, London, summer 2023

16/12/2024

The is by the author of The Wizard of Oz! This delightful tale of the person who is perhaps one the few who have traveled the entire world - and all in one night!! It’s also a story of love and sharing in the face of selfishness and evil. The original novel is fun and the one I have, the graphic novel (thanks mom) is as well. Happy Holidays to y’all, whatever you celebrate or if you don’t celebrate 📚💚

09/12/2024

On this dreary, wintery New Jersey day, looking back on this heat wave in the South of France and a day visiting Palais des Papes in Avignon! Built as a fortress in the 14th Century it was also briefly the center of Catholicism in Western Europe. Today one can tour with not just an audioguide but with an ipad that in each room will recreate what it's thought the room once looked like in its glory while listening to the history. It was a hot but a glorious day!

05/12/2024

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.

~ Hans Christian Anderson

04/12/2024

in honor of and 🍪 I was inspired by the blog linked below created by Indigenous Chef Tawnya. Often I skip over reading the explanation of a recipe on a blog site but I strongly recommend reading her history of this recipe! Cookies are currently in the oven…

https://www.cheftawnyabrant.com/post/indian-cookies

28/11/2024

As a New Yorker since 17, a world traveler, tour guests are always asking where I’m from and I simply tell them Northern California. They ask exactly where. And I tell them a smallish city but there’s so much more. Often they want to pinpoint me to one spot, that’s hard for me. I grew up in town and at the same time running the drainage ditch of the local farms, on ATVs roaming the ranchlands of Central California, trying not to be bit by a rattler in the foothills (still haven’t seen one!), riding horses and getting muddy and trudging through the snow in the Sierra Nevadas. As a kid I never understood how special all that was, today I’m thankful.

23/11/2024

For those of us who grew up a little bit wild…! I got two points, 1 for never having held a crayfish (shellfish allergy) and 1 for never having heard a rattlesnake despite everyone else in my family having stories of rattlesnake encounters 🐍

11/11/2024

Wanna explore a bit of NYC off the beaten path?? Take the subway or ferry across the Hudson River to Hoboken and I’ll show y’all the best view of Manhattan and share a bunch of history. And we might make a stop at the OG Cake Boss 😉

Hoboken New Jersey. Close to the Heart of our Guide and Cooperative member Alison. Visit this adorable and historic town with her.

06/11/2024

I don’t often mix my traveling work with my music work but I know many of y’all know about the musical journey I’ve been on to bring my own show to the stage. It’s my own personal form of travel! And it’s expensive to make dreams come true! If anyone can help my amazing pianist Seth and I bring this to the stage it would be so appreciated 🩵

Sometimes it's expensive to make dreams come true! Many of y'… Alison Rose Munn needs your support for Help us make a dream come true & bring our show to life!

03/11/2024

HAPPY NYC MARATHON DAY!! Folks come from all over the world to run the 5 Boroughs while New Yorkers come out in droves to support runners as they run through so many of our diverse neighborhoods. Starting on Staten Island and crossing the Verrazano Bridge into Brooklyn, the bridge crosses the Narrows that lead from the Northern Atlantic into the Bay... The day I ran the marathon the wind was whipping in like crazy and I thought all 170lbs of me was going to be blown into the ocean! But we all made it to Brooklyn, ran north through Queens, over the East River along the Queensboro Bridge, into Manhattan, up to the Bronx, twice crossing the Harlem River via the Broadway Bridge, and back to Manhattan to end in Central Park. There my post run bag was waiting for me after having been driven from Staten Island, through New Jersey and across the Hudson River via the George Washington Bridge. Changing immediately is important on a cold day so one doesn't catch a chill but I was so tired I couldn't get my pants off. A man from Peru who had just changed himself helped me. Then when changing my top we noticed some lookie loos and a woman from France covered me with her astronaut blanket. What a wonderful NYC & international day it was and is! 🏃‍♀️ Happy running to all the runners!

01/11/2024

🎥 A belated suggestion for , this film about two friends who set off from Argentina in the 1950s and try to criss cross the continent of South America on a vintage motorcycle. The views of the countryside, different cities, the people they encounter, their hardships, and their travel adventures are all brilliantly portrayed!

01/11/2024

Happy Halloween from this travel day 🎃 I’m in love with this sweatshirt gifted by a friend in England. Every year she reminds me that Hallowe’en is not a big deal in much of Europe and she misses pumpkin carving parties, dressing up, seeing decorations throughout town, and handing out candy. Though the origins of the holiday have been forgotten by many I find it to be a fun day here in the USA where folks of all ages don costumes (even the airport gate agents!) and head out for some good, clean, spooky fun 👻

28/10/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my birthday twin!! 🗽 On this day in 1886 you were officially revealed in the New York Harbor, 21 years after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the USA sparked the idea of you in Frenchman Édouard Laboulaye’s mind. But by that time reconstruction efforts in the Southen states was not going well and Jim Crow laws which led to segregation and other horrors were starting to be enacted… It would be another 6 years before you famous neighbor, the Ellis Island Immigration Station opened up and soon your original inspiration would be forgotten and you’d become associated those arriving to seek a new life . It’s forgotten histories like this that I love to share with tour guests!

28/10/2024

For my birthday I decided to take myself to my 50th US state - New Mexico!! And what an amazing first 24 hours 💛 I began in Las Cruces, a city I’d never heard of but was hosting a half marathon and decided that would be a great event for my final state 🏃🏼‍♀️ Green chilis and pistachios, a brilliant sunrise and sunsets, a local winery for one of the best cab francs I’ve ever tasted, tacos in the only existing building from stagecoach mail transportation days, the building Billy the Kid was tried in, somehow after the half marathon a hike through the Organ Mountains - an oasis as some of the species there only exist there, a hotel filled with local art, and so much kindness!! Thanks for a great first day!!

26/10/2024

New Jersey -> New Mexico….. My 50th US state!! I was supposed to travel to NM in 2020 and we all know what happened that year. Four years later, I’m making a birthday trip xo