October, 2017
How to be Your Own Travel Agent: Why did I write a book?
Why did I write a book? As I’ve announced before, I am self-publishing a book (How to be Your Own Travel Agent) that is the result of years of posts on Traveling with Nina. I started this blog as a way to share my travel successes and failures with friends and family. I wanted to inspire and empower others to plan their own fun adventures. I had no idea it would lead to a self-published book, but I wanted to take the travel tips I’ve spent years writing to the next level. I wanted to put them in one place so that everyone who has said to me, “I can never plan a trip” would have the tools they need for them to see that they CAN actually plan an amazing trip.
Zoar Village
Lined up in a row, on top of a counter, are neat piles of coffee, sugar, flour and grain. Each pile contains enough food for every member of each family unit. At the end of the day, one member of each family would gather at the Assembly House and be awarded food for their family’s labors. Those ages 3-14 would spend the day in the community’s school. Everyone else was expected to meet once a week and find out what the family job would be; jobs were anything from threshing the wheat to baking the bread. These jobs were for the benefit of the entire society. No one was a lone island; everyone worked together, played together, lived together, ate together and worshipped together. They were part of one of the most successful communal settlements in American history. They were the Society of the Separatists of Zoar, aka “Zoarites”.
Travel Guide: Ohiopyle PA
If you’re looking for somewhere to view fall foliage, you could do worse than Ohiopyle. Ohiopyle State Park is within the Laurel Highlands of Western Pennsylvania. I’ve been to this area before, and wrote about it here. This time, we did some different things! This would be a great over-night trip, or a very ambitious day-trip, from Columbus, Ohio. The area is full of beautiful views, and especially this time of year with the changing fall leaves. We stopped over and saw some sights on the way to and from Philadelphia. It was slightly out of the way, but worth it!
