According to a “Here’s where you should live based on your Myers-Briggs type” articles (quality journalism, aka guilty pleasure), I should live in Cape Town. And they’re probably completely right – Cape Town has it ALL: Great food, adventure sports, beaches, mountains/hiking, fascinating cityscape, etc. Not only is the city itself wonderful, it’s a great…
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Lake Placid/Upstate New York
And with that, 2018 is over. This was quite a momentous year, although it didn’t compare with the craziness of 2017. Select highlights: M and I officially got married in August, and then had our wedding celebration in October, and the second half of the year was focused on applying to business school. In December…
Door County, Wisconsin
Door County, Wisconsin I’d almost forgotten to write this blogpost, because our trip to Wisconsin felt like a normal weekend away with family. We took an extended Labor Day Weekend to visit M’s summer vacation spot when he was growing up. Most of M’s extended family still lives within a tiny radius of the Milwaukee…
Sedona & Scottsdale, Arizona
Sedona & Scottsdale, Arizona A beautiful, albeit quick, weekend trip to the scorching desert with girlfriends IT and JF. There’s no one else I would’ve wanted to hike in 120 degree weather with! It’s super important for me to maintain my own life outside of “married life” – and not out of necessity (long distance…
Kauai, Hawaii
It’s only been less than a week since we’ve been back from Hawaii, and it feels like forever ago – but not in a bad way. I’m not the type to “wish I was back!” wherever I just left, and it helps a lot that I have a pretty fulfilling non-vacation life to come back…
Oahu, Hawaii
We hadn’t been planning on taking any other trips besides our summer Eurotrip this year before our wedding, but the opportunity came up to visit Hawaii for essentially free so we jumped on it. We’d always said we wouldn’t visit Hawaii except for friends’ weddings since it’s a really long trip for a destination that…
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