I headed to this city with some friends in the winter of 2019, before everything got crazy and the world shut down. When we had made a plan for our trip, we had gathered recommendations for almost all of...
There was one month when I was living in Costa Rica that my visa almost expired. So the school I was working for sent me and a couple of my co-workers to Guatemala for a few days while it...
I would visit Petersburg as a child because my dad’s dad, whom we refer to as “Papa Wolf,” lived there with our Grams. We would fly from California to Juneau, and then Juneau to Petersburg. Once we got to...
After I graduated from college I moved to Costa Rica where I worked as a high school science and research teacher. When I initially moved out there I thought I would be living in the jungle, or by the...
While I’ve lived in California my whole life, I’ve always considered Seattle my second home. My mom grew up there and all of my family on her side still live there. It’s where we spend all of our family...
My grandpa lives in Bellingham, Washington which is about a 30 minute drive from the U.S/ Canadian border. This past summer my mother and I went up to Washington to visit him and one day she and I decided...
I visited Barcelona when I was studying and living in London. I was about to turn 21 and for my birthday I invited a bunch of my girlfriends to join me for a weekend of festivities. Now, this was...
It was mid-February by the time my friends and I arrived in Berlin and it was cold. Like, very cold. I was studying in London at the time and a group of girlfriends and I decided to travel around...
Everything truly is like you see it in the movies. The energy on the street is unmatched, from the smells wafting into the air from the pizzerias to the little slices of history that are evident in the architecture....
As an avid watcher of the Mamma Mia movies, I was overjoyed when I arrived in Santorini and saw white homes with blue roofs clustered along the cliff side just like in the films. Admittedly, the filming of the...