This is the last blogpost of the summer! When I started this summer I had two goals: gently test the job market, and get my (mental and physical) health back in shape. In that vein, I purposefully paused on goal #1 during August to focus on goal #2, which resulted in more kid-free trips in…
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Montevideo, Uruguay
The last blogpost of our little Christmas vacation…4 months ago at this point…and almost certainly the last post before a second human baby joins the family in a few short weeks! We just had our last weekend away this past weekend (to the very exciting town of Langhorne, PA for a weekend at SESAME PLACE),…
Buenos Aires, Argentina
TWO blogposts within the span of a week? You know what that means…either we have another trip coming up soon and I need to crank out my backlog of travel blogs, or I’m on the beach (at work – for the non-consultants this means I’m not actively staffed on a project). Sadly even I’m not…
Tuscany and Florence, Italy
Happy December! Let’s see if I can crank out my backlog of posts before the end of the year / before our next trip. We’ve (mostly) decided on Argentina over winter break. I have two full weeks off so we wanted to go somewhere warmer and take full advantage of the time, but I’m still…
Lake Como, Italy
Well, dear readers (and friends)….this blogpost has been over 2 months overdue. When that happens it’s usually because of: an insane work schedule, got behind managing a toddler, or suffering through an illness. In this case, it’s been a combination of all three – although the illness in this case is pregnancy (lmao). By now…
Mexico City, Mexico
We’re back! It’s been a whirlwind few months, with maternity leave, the start of work, and a few smaller trips in between. I’d promised to myself that our fundamental interests wouldn’t change too much once kids came along, and travel was a huge part of that. We figured the more mom and dad got used…
Montana – Wyoming – Utah Roadtrip
This is the last blogpost of 2020. When I wrote my last blogpost of the year, last year, the world looked a lot different. I was, as always, looking forward to my next big adventure (I’m glad we ended up taking it, in January to Colombia, before the world shut down in mid-March!), and awaiting…
Bogota, Colombia
Welp…remember a few weeks ago when I wrote my last Colombia blogpost, in advance of my next international trip to Israel & Jordan? Yeah, that trip got cancelled the day after, and Israel shut its borders pretty soon after. And then, a week later, much of the US also went into self-isolation mode, so as…
Beijing, China
As usual, I am delinquent with my blog posts. I am stealing away a few precious moments during my first week of orientation for my MBA program to write this blogpost, because I want to make a conscious effort to have balance in my life in the midst of all this crazy “networking” (i.e. socializing,…
ZhuJiaJiao & Suzhou, China
ZhuJiaJiao Ancient Water Town Continued from the Shanghai post: I wanted to go out of the city on my second day in Shanghai, since I knew when M made it he would want to see the main tourist sights in Shanghai. I chose to take a day trip to ZhuJiaJiao, an ancient water town about…
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