With COVID still lingering around the world and our movement greatly hindered as far as travel, I’ve had to get creative this year with adventures. After canceling more trips than I’d care to count due to COVID, I knew I had to find ways to still travel but to do… 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
I have been struck several times through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic with thoughts of how grateful I am that I pushed myself to travel so much this past decade. Never in my life did I envision a day where I wouldn’t be allowed to leave the borders of the… Read more
After canceling so many trips this year due to COVID, the one trip that broke my heart to cancel was our trip to Europe planned for this coming October. We were going to be heading to three of our favorite places in Europe (London, Paris and Spain) to celebrate our… Read more
After months of staying in one place this past Spring during the lockdowns for COVID-19, I knew this Summer would be a lot different in terms of the “travel” I’m used to and love. We have canceled so many trips this year due to COVID and honestly, it really started… Read more
Last week, Nick surprised me with flights down to Southern California to visit my parents for Father’s Day weekend. We had visited them a few weeks ago when they first moved to the LA area but that time we drove as we were helping them move in and had our… Read more
My parents recently moved to Southern California to the LA area and are getting settled into their new home in that part of the world. After living in Saudi Arabia and Hawaii, it’s been so much fun over the years to visit them in the various places they’ve lived. Going… Read more
A few years back I wrote a post on what to do when you miss a place, when you can’t travel but you miss a place you love so badly that it hurts. It’s still one of my top posts on Land of Marvels all these years later and I… Read more
Looking forward to the next year ahead during this season of COVID-19, I’m more and more coming to the conclusion that we might not be doing much, if any, international travel for a long while. And to ready myself for that circumstance, I’m starting to daydream about the opportunity to… Read more
With so many of our upcoming trips canceled for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, I’ve been thinking long and hard about the local Pacific Northwest spots that I’d still like to explore this upcoming Summer if we can. I’m hoping that we’ll be able to do more local travel… Read more
I’m currently at the point in my self-isolation where all I can think of is travel. Just to look through travel photos right now is really helping me process all of this and think ahead to future travel, when we’re free to roam the world once again. And while we’re… Read more
When I wrote out my thoughts last here on the blog, it was 4 weeks ago, right after we had gotten home from our quick trip to Hawaii. It was before the stay-at-home orders, before grocery shopping became like an olympic sport to get everything you might need to sustain… 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
One of the things that I get asked the most both about travel is how to know what to see and what to skip when planning a trip and how to know which items are the best to have on your itinerary for a specific destination. This can be a… Read more
Travel can be expensive, there really is no way around that and there is no reason to sugar coat it. And while there are definitely ways to cut the cost of travel and save more money when booking travel, there are still costs that add up and it’s important to… Read more