Somehow, this Leap Year felt a little more frenzied than usual as media outlets ran wild with every fun fact trivia it could come up with. In all of the hubbub around a date that comes literally every 4 years, the beach sounded like a much more relaxing, ideal place to focus my energies. Take […]
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My flight arrived in London at Heathrow just before 7 AM, London time. Yet, I was unable to check into my hotel until 2:30 PM. This meant I had quite a few hours to kill before I could rest properly and I hadn’t slept, but for maybe an hour on the plane. So what could I […]
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So you’re thinking about booking a tour to travel around your home country or beyond. Wonderful! Before you start daydreaming too hard about how you think it’s going to go, let’s get some reality out of the way first. Tours aren’t all about you. There, I said it. Deal with it. You aren’t the one planning […]
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Since it was my first time escaping the borders of my home country, America, I felt nothing short of intimidated. Sure, I’m a spontaneous spirited, independent woman who seeks adventure at every turn, but… leaving my comfort zone so completely and plopping myself down in foreign lands loaded with foreign currencies, languages, and customs, I […]
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I’ve officially been home for a week now and I still feel like I’m trying to catch my breath! If you were following me on Instagram then you saw how fast paced my holidays were and what I have been up to for the last three weeks. Now that I’m home I’m back to work, […]
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While our coach rolled through the center of Paris our tour guide offered us a few insights of what scams he himself or others on previous tours experienced in Paris and other major cities. These included: Theft: Warnings about protecting our passports and cash so far as to pin them under our clothes. If it’s […]
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What would you do if you only had 24 waking hours to explore London? How would you best fill your time? Tours? Free-range adventure? That’s the conundrum I’m currently facing. I have about 12 hours in London once I get to my hotel on Christmas Eve Eve and another 12 hours the day before my […]
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I’m finally doing it! I set a goal for 2016 to travel and it’s finally happening! One week from tomorrow I will be boarding my flight to London where I will spend a day exploring before meeting up with a group of strangers to tour eight countries in 11 days! I am beyond excited, but […]
Read MoreI can’t decide if choosing to be alone while I was single was harder than being alone now that I’m married. When I was single there was that stigma of being a lone woman in public, surrounded by happy couples or more attractive women on the prowl when all I wanted to do was have […]
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Pendleton, Oregon isn’t known for many things. In fact, unless you know where it is you probably would drive right past it without a second glance. Perhaps, on your trip across Oregon and into Idaho you’ve stopped to use the restroom at a roadside gas station or McDonalds. You’d have no reason to drive into […]
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