About Annemarie Dooling

Ever since her first essay was published in a third-grade anthology about Jane Goodall, Annemarie has been hooked on writing. She's since traded in print publications for HTML and pencils for iPads but prides herself on the same journalistic integrity that her news print reporting background required. Time Out, Marie Claire, Lifetime, and AOL are just some of the venues that publish her work. A native New Yorker, she lives vicariously through French fashion blogs, weekend gambling trips, and coffee.

Why You Should Travel With A Group: A Solo Traveler Takes On Contiki Holidays

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With a close friend or two, with my boyfriend, or alone. Those are the typical ways I travel. So, when I arrived in Lima, Peru, to find out that my Contiki Holidays media trip – their inaugural South America excursion … Continue reading

Death by Disney Desserts

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I’ve been to Disney on average about three times a year for the past four years; that includes both US Disney parks and those abroad. So, when we jetted down to Orlando to meet with our Disney Weddings planner, we … Continue reading

Another Side of Governors Island

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Governors Island has become the latest corner of the city where sweaty, music-loving hotpants-wearing New Yorkers go to escape the heat. While the ferry ride from Downtown Manhattan is a mere 10-15 minutes at most — yes, less than the … Continue reading

Love, Longing And Shopping In Vancouver

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Cooling off with an iced coffee and a Japadog, I stumbled into a sleepy design shop in an up-and-coming street of Vancouver last month. While I was expecting the same kind of hipster knick-knacks and ironic swag of my favorite … Continue reading

Facing My Fears Through Traveling

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That’s exactly what I’m doing this summer. I’m a horrible chicken. I jump ten feet high on haunted house rides; forget walk-through Halloween houses, I could never get near one of those. I get weak in the knees on particularly … Continue reading