travel blog
I’ve tried to write this post a few times, a bit unsure of where to start or even where to go. How do you sum up a year of living in a new city, country, and continent in one post? Especially when that year was also a year of a global pandemic that virtually shut
I’ve now been living in Amsterdam for just about two months. It was a strange thing to move to a new country just before a global pandemic was announced and everything shut down. I had one whole day to see/do what I could before prior to the distancing measures put in place. And I’m also
You read that right. I’ve decided to pack up my life in the United States and move it across the pond to Amsterdam. And it’s happening in less than 10 days from now!
When I left Jordan, you’ll recall I felt a bit disappointed by the country. I wanted and needed more. I needed my senses to be challenged and I needed some kind of shock to the system after working insane hours for several months before taking time for this trip. I needed to feel alive. I
I know I might catch some flak for this, but Jordan was just okay. I wasn’t blown away by it, but I also didn’t hate it. It was just a middle-of-the-road destination for me. I’d read so many wonderful things about Jordan and a lot of the travel bloggers that I’m friends with or follow
By far the biggest and most impressive surprise of my whole trip to Jordan ended up being the Red Sea. Whenever there’s an option to go on a boat for a day, you’ll find me on it. There’s something so perfect about being on the open water, enjoying the quiet and solitude. There only ended
I love a good night camping in a desert under a blanket of stars, when it’s cold out and you sit around a fire and roast some marshmallows and tell stories and hear about different cultures and ways of life. So when I went to Jordan, I knew that was something on my must-do list
Visiting the Dead Sea is one of those things that you are supposed to do when you go to Jordan. Loads of people have it on their bucket lists and want to have those quintessential reading while floating photos to prove they checked it off their list. For me, I was just ready for it