Travel Betty

In a tiny Chinatown shop in San Francisco, no bigger than a one-car garage, in an alley barely wider than an airplane aisle, there lives a very special cookie company, The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company.

Every day they pump out bags and bags of your favorite post-kung-pao-chicken treat. Some are even flavored with chocolate. While [...]

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Grab some beads and get ready for your debut performance on Girls Gone Wild. Bourbon Street is where you make your parents proud and your ex-girl and boyfriends jealous.

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Drag a bar stool up to the piano and soak in the atmosphere of the oldest building in the French Quarter. It’s been standing since around 1772. And with Mike Hood on the keys you’re be sure to remain entertained until well past when you fall off said stool.
Travel Betty Basics
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
941 Bourbon Street
New [...]

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The motto for this fine surf city is “Keep Santa Cruz Weird.” A quick stroll along Pacific Avenue finds that citizens (as well as transient characters) are more than happy to oblige.
Other Betties blogging about Santa Cruz:
Bastard of Art and Commerce
Clearly Enlight
Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz

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Ease yourself into a seat on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Egypt (as famous for its views as its relation to Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile). Musicians seranade you as feluccas drift lazily by and the sun slips down behind Saharan sands.
Orbitz: Don’t you deserve a little TLC when you travel?

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We came upon this gentleman playing his rababa for us outside the temple of Medinet Habu in Luxor, Egypt. Go ahead and enjoy half a minute of his musical stylings. You just might feel compelled to give him some baksheesh.
Orbitz: Don’t you deserve a little TLC when you travel?

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Even though I don’t consider myself a religious person, I am fascinated by the history and origins of different religions. Therefore, I was quite excited to catch a glimpse of the Burning Bush. But after squeezing with 1,000 other people both entering and exiting through a single door best suited for a Keebler elf, [...]

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