The end of April on Cote d’Azur greeted us with sunshine, a light breeze, and the promise of a warm summer. What a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday in Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer! And what better way to start a two and a half month stay in France than on the Mediterranean coast.
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Coffee cup in hand, I step on the patio and take in the view of the emerald ocean. Palm trees sway in the breeze and the sunshine is already abundant even if it’s only 7 am. Normally, I’m not a morning person, but this is a great incentive! Belize knows how to welcome me to my first Caribbean vacation!
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We had one week of spring bliss in Tennessee. Knoxville’s flora was in its full glory and the temperatures soared into the 80s. This is one of my two favorite times of the year in the area, the other one being Fall.
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By Oana Harrison
PUBLISHED in ROVA Magazine, March/April 2025 issue
The desert: dust, death, and desolation. Or at least that’s how I used to think about it before our springtime road trip to the Southwest. Eight months into a full-time RV year that my husband, David, and I had embarked upon, we headed west through Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, the California coast and back. Along the way, we discovered unique places in the Chihuahua, Sonora, Mojave, and Colorado Deserts. The Southwest offered incredible natural nuances, from shifting sand dunes to endless canyons, to lush oases and blue lakes. This landscape I’d once viewed as dead and quiet, the desert was teeming with life. And nothing prepared me for the intense orange-purple sunsets or the Technicolor desert in bloom.
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A longtime friendship enhances the small-town charm of a hamlet in Maine.
By Oana Harrison
PUBLISHED in ROVA Magazine, December 2024/January 2025 issue
Often, the best travel destinations are small towns, hidden gems that make a special impression. Skowhegan, Maine was one of these destinations. We visited the New England town in the fall of 2019 and caught up with a friend while we were there. Here is the story.
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