Not pictured: time spent reading (it took me 5 weeks to read Gone with the Wind but I did it!), talking on the phone with friends (mostly in the beginning; by the end, I didn’t have much to say anymore), and the endless hours of Netflix binges (mainly Vampire Diaries and New Girl).
A big thank you to Gatien who has shared his photos from our trip with me to use on my blog. You can check out his blog here. We had been itching to go hiking the entire week we stayed with Gatien’s family just outside of a town called Beaufort in the Alps, but the weather simply …
We have arrived at the Festival of the End of the World in Avignon. We’ve finally done our undoing, and unlike my predictions it wasn’t because we elected the “Screaming Cheeto”, as my mom likes to call him, into office; we’ve heated the world to an inviable temperature. The heat quietly lulls us to sleep, but …
While I’m glad we responded to the urge to explore the island far and wide, on a second trip to Sardinia I would plant myself in Cala Gonone and see all the Golfo di Orosei region has to offer. Cala Gonone is a small city on the east coast of Sardinia at the northern end of …
We started our vacation by spending a week in Sardinia before heading to France. As an American traveling in Europe, Sardinia is an extremely unlikely destination – people generally want to see the major cities of continental Europe – but I was hell-bent on getting in some beach time so Sardinia it was! Planning our time in Sardinia …
When G and I started planning our holidays in France, we were going to head to Corsica to get our beach fix. But there is almost no tourist information on Corsica, so we decided on a weeklong Sardinia itinerary instead. Sardinia is the Italian island just south of Corsica in the Mediterranean. The island doesn’t …
Throwback post! Some people take selfies of their face; I, apparently, like to take selfies of my feet. They aren’t particularly cute feet so I don’t know what that’s all about, but the resulting collection of photos tells the story of my year abroad (2012-2013) teaching English in Thailand and traveling in Asia and Europe …
My favorite hostels around the world, plus what makes a great hostel and what places have the worst hostels.
