I don’t know about you, but in Oregon in the Winter it’s cold and dreary, particularly so this week and while I don’t mind the rain so much, I am looking ahead to future warmer months and Summer travel! As a teacher, I travel the most during my Summer break… Read more
France is one of my favorite countries and from big cities to small towns, you can’t go wrong with France! Though as much as I love Paris, the French countryside has some pretty spectacular small towns and smaller cities to explore too. As we’ve traveled all over Southern France, from… Read more
In this seemingly never-ending spiral of COVID, I’m dreaming more and more of the day when we can explore the world again. I’ve also been thinking a lot about the places I still want to see, the places I want to return to and some of the places that have… Read more
You know, there are moments in life that you simultaneously wonder how you made it there and how it came so fast. Today, Nick and I celebrate ten years of marriage. This anniversary, it’s definitely one of those moments. Ten years of marriage seems like a milestone that I’m not… Read more
This travel story starts in the Spring of 2019, in February to more exact. Last year in February my grandmother, who lives an hour away from me was diagnosed with breast cancer. To be here at home to help out with her surgery and recovery, Nick and I decided to… Read more
In the time of COVID-19, the world has watched slowly as the travel industry has almost completely disappeared for the time being. Planes aren’t flying, people aren’t moving freely, monuments are left empty around the world. I’ve had so many emotions over the loss of travel, so many emotions about… Read more
Our week in France in July seems like forever ago now but I finally got around to editing the video we took while there and it really is amazing how beautiful the country is in the Summertime. We spent a week wandering through Paris, Provence and Lyon and took in… Read more
You know those places in the world that you travel to that you have zero expectations for and know nothing about and you think of them as mainly thorough fair locations? They are those cities that aren’t crazy well known and are usually just a means to an end destination…. Read more
As I mentioned in my post on our time in Provence, we originally we slated for three days in Southern France until we got there and encountered a massive heat wave that left us stifling in our little apartment without AC. Upon waking (from 2 hours of sleep) after our… Read more