As previously mentioned, M and I are taking a bit of a travel hiatus this “semester” as our time away from our respective jobs will be spent on non-vacation trips: weddings, interviews, weekend class, etc – and as we save up for some upcoming ~ big things~ (like our month- long travel this upcoming summer!)…
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Catskills Mountains
Happy new year, everyone! Thanks for following along as I documented all my 2016 travels, but now a new year starts and real life begins. I will be traveling a lot less this year as we are currently saving up for a few things – plus I’m saving up my vacation time for some great…
London & Copenhagen (2016)
The holidays are always packed with people leaving for vacation at the office, so I decided to use my time before everyone started leaving to balance things out. After a few relaxing days celebrating Thanksgiving, I caught a red-eye flight from Boston to London, arriving the next morning. While not technically a “backpacking” trip, it…
A Few October Updates (2016)
With the blink of an eye, October has come and past – and no travel posts from me?! That’s because this month was the start of my “real life” – a new job, and the beginning of being a real-full time student as my thesis was recently accepted (woot). And don’t worry, there was LOTS…
Iceland
Iceland seems to be the new travel destination these days, with help from great flight deals via WOW air and Icelandair’s stopover program. This could be a decently affordable trip, with flight deals from around $300 round trip, almost all nature excursions, and meals mostly from groceries. Our trip wasn’t the most affordable since we…
Breakneck Ridge
rock-climbing in the wild This is probably one of the most popular hikes in the NYC area because of the proximity to Manhattan and the ability to get here via public transportation ($28 round trip). As our birthday celebration, NT and I decided to do a day-long hike and chose this one, even though we…
Los Angeles
This was the first trip in a while that I took just for fun. It started with MF visiting NYC a few months ago and us joking about going to Disneyland (since we both loved DisneyWorld), and actually making it happen with a bundled trip to LA! I haven’t really visited the west coast since…
Rhode Island: Block Island
Originally I was planning on visiting Atlanta for my sister’s birthday but plans fell through, so I had a Labor Day weekend free! So, IT, PB, and I decided to take the time to go up to Rhode Island for part of the weekend. As I had to come back early to the city for…
Musings on Financial Freedom
The whole point of creating this blog was to not only document my traveling (which, let’s be real, isn’t nearly as exciting as many people who seem to traverse the world almost every other week), but to document my life of living to the fullest while being as financially responsible as possible. Everyone has a…
An Autumnal Reflection
There will be a time when I transition to thinking in the calendar year and not the school year calendar, but for now, August has always been the time of new beginnings. Mid-August would always be that time after internships were over and the school year was about to begin, and after a day or…
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