As the Summer starts off, it begins the busiest travel season of the year for most people. As a teacher at a University, my Summer’s are when I’m able to escape and travel the most and I’m getting ready for a very busy Summer ahead with trips around the US… Read more
More What to Wear posts for more destinations here! We escaped the routine of daily life for a Winter weekend in Iceland in February this year to return to one of our favorite places. If you’ve looked around this site at a bit, you’ll see how much we love Iceland… Read more
As we near the end of 2020 and more people are looking at getting back to traveling a bit in the New Year, even if it’s more local, I’m feeling optimistic about traveling in the coming year. As learn more about COVID and understand how to take precautions, I think… Read more
While we’re all starting to figure out how to travel again, albeit safely and regionally, during COVID, there are a few items I never travel without. Over my years of traveling, I’ve come up with this list of the absolute necessary items that I end up needing more than not and… Read more
*Update: My trip to Myanmar was prior to the military coup that took place shortly thereafter and the country is now off limits to tourists for the time being. When researching my trip to Myanmar, I read a ton of blog posts mentioning all these specialty items I would need… Read more
I’ve always been a big advocate for traveling with carry-on only luggage, but this most recent trip to Europe we went even lighter and left an entire side of our carry-on’s totally empty on the way over knowing we’d want to bring souvenirs home with us. This meant that both… Read more
As we get into the cooler weather and as Winter approaches, I realized that most of my favorite trips have been Fall or Winter travel and while cold this time of year, it can often be a gorgeous time of year to explore and see different destinations around the world…. Read more
When I was packing for our cruise to Alaska, I had a really hard time finding any information or images from people my age for what to wear for dinners, especially the formal nights. I read everywhere that Alaska cruises are much more casual than other cruises, but still, never… Read more
I’ll admit, packing for our cruise to Alaska was really hard for me. It wasn’t so much what was needed for Alaska, I’ve been there before and knew generally what I’d need, it was the ship stuff that was harder for me. When we travel, we usually don’t go out… Read more
Iceland in Winter is no joke and being prepared for your trip there is a must do if you intend to visit between November and March. The weather in Iceland is notorious for changing on a dime and the roads can be treacherous and hard to traverse, add in crazy… Read more
We are headed off tomorrow for an epic road trip eventually leading us to Yellowstone National Park! Though we’re also making a number of stops before getting there, like finally seeing the Palouse in Eastern Washington and spending a couple days in Glacier National Park and Kalispell, Montana. This is… Read more
I’ve talked a lot about packing here on Land of Marvels and as a believer in carry-on packing, we’ve discussed packing mostly on the premise of how to actually fit everything in your suitcase. But we haven’t discussed much about how I actually choose specific clothing for trips and the… Read more
Before our trip to Asia, a new travel company called Zero Grid reached out to me to see if Land of Marvels would be interested in collaborating. Nine times out of ten when I get those emails and go check out their websites, there’s not much I’d like to do… Read more
We are nearing December and with that, comes shopping for the people you love in your life! Every year bloggers around the world come up with their gift guides and for the first time in many years of blogging, I’m jumping on the band wagon! So if you’re looking for… Read more
We are preparing to head to Japan and China tomorrow so I was packing recently for the trip. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we most travel carry-on only and as a lot of people always have questions for me on how to do that, I thought instead of… Read more