by Jamie Cattanach | Jul 8, 2018 | Travel
Just about three years ago, I was watching the sunset in St. Petersburg, Florida from a beachfront hotel window, halfway through a mediocre bottle of wine. It was the day before my first interview for The Penny Hoarder. I had five weeks left before I was supposed to...
by Jamie Cattanach | Jul 5, 2018 | Travel
On my very first full day in Santa Fe, I almost got my car stuck in the sand. I was on a deserted, unpaved back road about a half hour north of town, and had found a spare branch to haul under the front tires before discovering — with an overwhelming rush of...
by Jamie Cattanach | Jun 24, 2018 | Travel
Guys, this isn’t going to be a long post. But suffice to say, I think I may have gone full New Mexico. That is, I definitely traveled to Taos this weekend to go to a couple of ridiculous hippie desert dance parties and stay in an Earthship. (This was just as...
by Jamie Cattanach | Jun 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
If I had a dollar for every time someone cocked their head and gave me that skeptical, yeah, sure smile when I told them I’m a freelance writer, I’d have… well, at least a few more dollars than I have at present. The more salient question, though...
by Jamie Cattanach | Jun 15, 2018 | Travel
I’ve had the desert on my brain since the start. I’ve been aiming at the southwest since the beginning of this adventure, and over the past week I finally made my way down. I took a break halfway, driving south from Felt to Fort Collins, a seven-hour,...