Kate O'Neal-Eaton

Coming soon: Kate and Dad visit Madrid

My dad and I at Notre Dame de Paris My late mother loved Paris. She was a french teacher and had studied abroad at the Sorbonne in the 1960's when it was almost unheard of for women in college to do such things. She packed a trunk and took a ship across the Atlantic and spent a year in a foreign city perfecting her language skills and falling in love with the culture and adventure of the City of Light. When I was a teenager, my parents took me and my best friend to Paris, igniting a love...

Last May my husband and I tried something we'd never done before, we booked a tour of Spain. Well, sort of. We booked a Rick Steves My Way Tour which is an unique sort of tour - Rick Steves Travel arranges your accomodations and intercity travel, but once you arrive at each new destination, you are free to explore all on your own. You travel with a small group of others between cities, and your have a travel advisor (a tour guide) with you the whole time to offer advice, answer questions,...