We’ve made it a habit to go somewhere warm every MLK weekend, and even though we are saving for our wedding this year (!) we didn’t make an exception. Nestled between work trips, we spent the long weekend in Playa Del Carmen in Mexico; Florida is much easier, but we wanted a change this year….
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Portugal (2016)
Continuation of Winter 2016 Eurotrip Lisbon: Day 5 I left my friend to visit my other friend in Portugal. After a quick flight, I arrived to the sunny city! We stayed in the Alfama district, which is full of winding streets and beautiful houses. I LOVED this city – maybe it was the off season,…
Barcelona (2016)
Continuation of Winter 2016 Europe Trip BARCELONA: Days 3-4 My friend from London and I took a very early flight (after no sleep by me – got used to running on an average of 2 hours of sleep a night!) to visit Barcelona for a few days. It wasn’t as warm as we expected, but…
Austin, TX
Austin, TX: Scrambling to write my last post of the year, as it’s only 2 more days until 2018 and I’ll be ~away from my computer~ during those days! Everyone always says that the year was a whirlwind, but mine was exceptionally crazy. I distinctly remember going into 2017 with a determined sense of purpose,…
Seattle
Only a few days left until the end of the year and I’m struggling to get all of my blog posts in, so HERE I GO! The holidays, as usual, are crazy, but thankfully this year I don’t have to travel anywhere until New Year’s. Otherwise, we’re in the midst of wedding planning, which is…
Chiang Mai, Thailand
How can you visit Thailand and not play with the elephants! Honestly we flew to Chiang Mai just for the elephants, which were totally worth it. It was also a bit cheaper here than in Bangkok, so we spent some more time here to relax. We stayed at the Shewe Wana Boutique Resort &…
Thailand: Bangkok
Thailand was our last stop on our whirlwind Asia tour before heading back to the United States, and it ended up being my favorite country out of everywhere we visited even though we didn’t visit the famed party beaches. Bangkok in particular was surprisingly wonderful, even though everyone said it was filled with shopping malls…
Hoi An, Vietnam
After running around for weeks on end, I’d planned our time in Vietnam for recharging. We spent almost an entire week in ONE city (town? village?) at the same hotel, and were happily able to slow down. We even spent a few days just lazing around our hotel rather than sightseeing – very out of…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yikes, even though life is seemingly so much slower these days, it’s still been a month since my last post – and it’s a very belated post at that! I’ve been traveling a lot for work/other reasons, and with the holidays passing (Thanksgiving) and coming up (winter holidays) it’s easy to get swept up in…
Bali, Indonesia
Bali is one of those “exotic” places that’s exploded in popularity lately – perhaps as a result of the instahealth craze. Everyone wants to have their honeymoon there, and because we don’t like following the crowd, we figured we’d visit during our SE Asia trip so that we didn’t have to make a separate trip…
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