You will quickly see that this article is NOT going to be one that gives you tips related to touring like a local when visiting a foreign Country. Instead it is going to be addressing this whole notion that somehow staying in someone's personal home (i.e., AirBnb) while traveling makes you more of a local than the tourists opting to stay in comfortable hotels and resorts. We hear this idea all the time, "I want to stay in an AirBnB so I can travel more like a local." That frankly is a bunch of hooey...pardon my language. Its hooey for the following reasons: First, you are not staying or living like a local if you are not getting up everyday at a time that you would need to in order to com
Maybe a lot of you reading this had no idea that I once called Nashville (the area south of Nashville) home for a combined 15 years. It was where I worked and lived and I loved the area dearly. But then wonderful fate intervened and life and love has taken me to the northeast part of our Country. And I am loving my life now as a northeaster (even though I still have somewhat of a southern twang). But since so many friends still reside in Nashville, I am able to stay up on what's happening in the "Athens of the South." Growth is what has been and still is happening. MAJOR growth is what I was hearing. But trust me when I say I truly did not comprehend the magnitude of that growth until m
