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,…
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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…
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…
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…
Maine, Acadia National Park
Portland & Acadia National Park “The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.” – Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods…
Fire Island
Holiday long weekends are always so hard to travel, since flights are expensive and so is decent lodging. I try to compensate by going somewhere cool on non-holiday weekends and mostly staying put or doing day trips on holiday weekends! So, over Memorial Day weekend, two of my friends and I decided to do a…
Costa Rica
June 13-19 Five girls with very minimal Spanish abilities survived a week in the jungle. Amazing. ML (one of the girls on the trip) and I were talking about taking another trip together, since we tend to travel together at least once a year! As we’re both budget-savvy travelers, we searched our options for the…
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