We spent a great week on the west coast exploring three amazing cities: Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon (more posts to come!). We took a bus from Vancouver, where we had been for a conference, to Seattle. We rented a car to have the freedom to explore the city and later take [...]
During the COVID-19 Pandemic our travels were put to a halt, we were fortunate enough to be able to plan a get-away to California in between multiple state lockdowns in November 2020 to spend some time in Napa Valley and San Francisco. A couple weeks after our trip the state shut down again, so our [...]
Day 1 On our first morning of the road trip we woke up early to start our 6 hour drive from Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. Our first planned stop was to visit the Angel Oak, which is about 30 minutes outside of Charleston. This is thought to be one of the oldest things in [...]
Boston is such a historic and beautiful city. We spent a long weekend here with some of our friends over Labor Day one September. The food was amazing, the weather was great, and the company was even better. Day 1 Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum (11 min walk from the hotel). This was a [...]
St. Augustine, Florida is not only the oldest city in Florida, but the oldest European-settled city in the United States. This is also one of the first places that sparked my travel interests as a child as it was the first historic family vacation we took (as Floridians, we typically visited Orlando and Disney World). [...]
Barcelona! Such a beautiful horizon. Like a jewel in the sun. – Freddie Mercury, from the song “Barcelona” We ended our two week Mediterranean vacation in Barcelona after a stay in Naples, Rome, and a Mediterranean Cruise. We thoroughly enjoyed every city we visited and cannot wait to return to experience more of Italy and Spain. [...]
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert Our Italy and Spain tour continued! On our last morning in Rome we walked to the Campo De’ Fiori market near the Piazza Navona where you can purchase produce, flowers, spices, and souvenirs to bring home. At the [...]
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city." -Anatole Broyard After a few days in Naples, exploring the Campania Region of Italy, we took a 9:00am train from Naples to Rome. We caught our train at Napoli Centrale and arrived at Roma Termini. The travel was super easy and only took a little [...]
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” - Pat Conroy What better way to bring in another year of life than to spend two weeks exploring Italy and Spain with your best friend? [...]
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” - Ernest Hemingway We were having such an incredible time on our two week road trip through Northern France, and we [...]
Postcards and Airplanes 