Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Surrey UK. This is a sweet little house where Jane lived for a short period of her life. There is a tea room and you can tour the house and I posed at her writing desk when no one was looking! The Algonquin in New York City. This was the place where the famous Round Table met. I have been there several times for drinks and I always find it inspiring. Ernest Hemingway in Paris. To be fair the entire of city of Paris was an inspiration to the Lost Generation authors and I loved visiting Shakespeare & Company but at the Ritz they have Hemingway’s Bar where you can see a lot of Hemingway memorabilia they have collected over the years and after a pricey cocktail I decided to give his typewriter a try! Charles Dickens house in London. There are several blue plaques in London notated the different houses he lived in. One of them is an attraction where they have recreated the way the house would have looked when he lived there including his writing space. John Muir and the Sierra Nevadas. I have visited Yosemite a few times and found it…

With October comes Halloween, and with Halloween comes… SCARY MOVIES. * dun dun dun * Even though I rarely watch them anymore, I thought it would be fun to tell you about my top five scary movies that made me not want to watch scary movies anymore. 13 Ghosts. I don’t know why, but this movie MESSED me up. I was so scared after seeing this, and I still, to this day, get nervous when I go into a dark bathroom. I always look at the bathtub and picture that woman all drenched in blood staring at me. Shudders The original. I don’t even remember it, or much about it, but I know I watched it as a kid, and ever since I hate clowns. Always have. Always will. Pet Semetery. Dead pets coming to life and attacking people? Yeah. No thanks. I’ll pass. The Shining. Red-rum. Red-rum. Yeah, I’ll red-run my ass outta that hotel, thank you very much! The Ring. Yep, that one got me, too. I still don’t like the static sounds on TV, and get nervous when people talk about watching it. Like, ya’ll could die now. As a bonus, I’ll tell you about the Twitter…