travel blog
One thing I always hope for and look forward to when I take a trip to PA during the winter is the snow. I’ve been disappointed for the past several years–it always comes too early or too late for my arrival there. But this year, it snowed not once, but twice while I was home visiting
I’m headed home to good old south central Pennsylvania for the holidays. I leave tomorrow and will spend five wonderful days visiting my family and friends. I realized that I’ve never written much about where I’m from. I guess when you live in a place your entire life it’s hard to think of it as
When I visited Little Rock a few months ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Garvan Woodland Gardens. It was an incredibly muggy and miserably hot day, especially for early-September, but it was worth all the sweat and flush face. There were a few highlights from the walk around the grounds: the curved wooden bridge; the cave
I went to Phoenix for Thanksgiving to visit family and we decided to take a little adventure to Flagstaff and Sedona. I’d been to both before, but only for a brief time, and to be honest, it was so many years ago that I didn’t remember a lot about them.
When I visited family in Phoenix for Thanksgiving, I wanted to get some photos of the skyline. My uncle suggested the Wrigley Mansion. The mansion finished construction in 1931 by the Wrigley gum magnate, William Wrigley, Jr. You can take tours of the mansion, enjoy a meal in one of their fabulous dining areas, or
When I was flying back from San Francisco, I volunteered to be bumped to a later flight and got a pretty sweet voucher in return. Having known a few people who lived in Chicago, I’d heard a lot about how awesome it was. I had a long weekend coming up at work, and decided to
About a year ago, my best friend, Jason, and his family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. I decided that it was finally time to head out there and visit them and check out the new-to-me city. One of the things I love the most about having friends all around the world is that, not only
I’ve lived in the Austin area for close to five years now. The first few months I lived here, everything was new and exciting and I’d always go out on little adventures to find new places and things I loved. Now, having lived here for this long, it’s become home, which means that I have
Overview I hadn’t been dating my boyfriend for very long before he surprised me with a trip to San Francisco for Valentine’s Day. I had never been, but had always wanted to go, so I was very excited. We were only able to go for a long weekend (it also happened to coincide with Presidents’