Where we’re at: I’ve wrapped up blogging the second quarter of 2019, of which this is a huge roundup. I realize for some this is a difficult time to read about travel. I am writing often about our current global crisis — the impact it’s having on me personally, on the world of travel, and on the […]

 

Where we’re at: I’m recapping my summer of 2019, including my eighth travelversary, which I celebrated in June.  Well, there’s not much of a contest: this was the weirdest travelversary I’ve celebrated in the eight years since I started tracking them.  Needless to say for those who have been following my journey, this was a tough […]

 

Where we’re at: I’m recapping my travels in 2019, including this trip to England in June. Raise your hands if your childhood was also defined by learning the choreography to the Spice Girls music videos you secretly made your babysitter videotape on the VCR, making Spice Girl scrapbooks out of photos you printed off the internet, […]

 

Where we’re at: I’m recapping my travels in 2019, including this trip to England and Wales in June. Sometimes the best trips are born of the most trivial desires. To see a bunch of painted rocks in the desert, to eat a certain dish you love in its native land, to cry in the stadium seating […]

 

Time to dive back into roundups! Since I’m working my way through my black hole of content from August of 2016 to April of 2017, that means we’ve got roundups to catch up on as well. Apologies for the delay, but I suppose better is late than never… right? And to answer the inevitable questions, I […]

 

I used to think a two week trip sounded like forever — now I feel like it goes by in a blink! After three nights each in Brighton, London, Bristol and Anglesey, I had just two nights left for my final stop before catching a flight back to New York — Liverpool! The first night was […]

 

Since you guys seemed to love hearing about my Florida camper van travel disaster so much, I thought, what the heck — let’s make this a series! Because heaven knows that ten years after I left on my first big solo travel adventure, I still manage to find myself entangled in a couple complete travel meltdowns […]

 

Bath is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful and well-preserved cities in England — for many, it’s a highlight of their time in the UK. For Ian and me? It was kind of meh. Blasphemy, I know! But don’t raise your pitchforks just yet. Bath is beloved by millions. And we actualy had […]

 

I’ll be honest: I wasn’t too fussed with visiting Bristol while planning our United Kingdom trip. Brighton had been my big personal priority, and the rest of our trip was mostly about visiting friends around the country — with one of Ian’s besties living in Bristol, it was pretty much automatically added to our itinerary. (Though […]

 

“You’re renting a car in England?!” my British friends asked, looking concerned. “Just take the trains,” they assured me, echoing the warnings of my guidebook, though I remained convinced that I alone knew best when it came to traveling in a foreign country that I have limited experience exploring. Pause for laughter. I actually have pretty […]