Upon arriving in Nice… I immediately fell in love with this city. The red buildings of Old Nice, the Place Messena, the Mediterranean, the greenery, the rocky beach… seriously one of my favorite places I’ve ever been. I immediately said to Nick the first day there, “I could seriously live… Read more
One of the things I really wanted to do this time in Italy was take a train to a smaller city for a day trip from Milan. One of my favorite movies happens to be Letters to Juliet, which is based in Verona and when we decided on Milan, I… Read more
When we were planning this trip way back when, Nick and I really wanted to experience Italy again after our mishap in Rome a couple years ago. After our trip to Rome, we weren’t very eager to return to Italy for a number of reasons, but when I tell people… Read more
Our first day in New Orleans, we wandered around the French Quarter, took in the sights and enjoyed the food. The city was a lot different than I had anticipated. I was expecting it to feel quaint and almost fairy-tale like after seeing photos of the French quarter, but that… Read more
We ended our time in Iceland on a high note, exploring Reykjavik on our last day. We left early afternoon for the airport, but before then, we used our last morning in Iceland to explore more of the town around us (since we’d been out in the country the previous… Read more
Our second day in Iceland was definitely the most memorable. We had booked a tour with a British guy that lives in Iceland and is part of the photography circle there (Nick found him via the photography community online) and it was the best thing we did on our whole… Read more
Our first day in Iceland was a short one. We arrived at 7am local time, however when we arrived at our hotel around 9am, we were so tired that we went right to sleep for a few hours. When we woke up, we only had a couple hours left of… Read more
While exploring New York City for the first time, we spent our first day sleeping in and started our day with breakfast at Pershing Square restaurant at Grand Central Station. It was just a short 2 blocks from our hotel and was delicious with a very cool interior. After breakfast,… Read more
Our second and final day in Victoria was another lovely one. We got blue skies that day, with beautiful big fluffy clouds out over the water. The weather was wonderful but very cold still, so after sleeping in, we bundled up and went out for another day of exploring. We… Read more
The day we got into Victoria, it was early afternoon and we had expected to arrive to rain and stormy weather, as it was pouring rain when we left Portland. But in a nice turn of events, we arrived to Victoria in grey skies but not a drop of rain… Read more
This past long weekend in San Francisco was interesting for Nick and I. We were expecting to love the city and maybe we were expecting too much. We’ve seen a lot of places and for me especially, some of them really stick with me, some of them I fall deeply… Read more
Looking back, a week ago we were wandering the streets in Marrakech on the other side of the world. That place for me brought many memories back but it also awoke many things within me, seeing it through adult eyes, seeing it for what it really is and not just… Read more
For a long time, I’ve wanted to go to Morocco. I’ve always been fascinated with Middle Eastern design and aesthetics, but something about the Moroccan designs, their lanterns, their patterns has always pulled me in. It was always a place at the top of my list to see when I… Read more
Recently my mom has been putting home videos from my childhood on DVD and in the process she is sending me clips of them as she gets them. It’s so interesting for me to sit here, in the States, in Oregon, in the cold rainy days and remember back to… Read more