As a huge history nerd I had always wanted to visit America's first nation’s capital city. So much of our history began in Philadelphia, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence, so I was eager to visit. Finally one autumn, I booked us flights and we spent a long weekend in the "City of [...]
One of the first really big nomadic trips I planned was our two-week road trip through the northern part of France where we stayed in four different locations (two in Paris). I learned a lot while planning this trip, however, this was nothing compared to the planning that went into the two-week trip through the [...]
"Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!" - Irish Saying The second day in Dublin we took a day trip to Kilkenny, about and hour and a half south of Dublin. This was [...]
"I'm glad we were here together in our nation's capital." - Forrest Gump (1994) As I have mentioned before, Washington D.C. is one of my favorite cities (well I say that, but I really love Paris. Boston. Philadelphia. Vancouver. Mont Saint Michel. The list really goes on and on), and the city I have visited [...]
“Bonjour! Hello!” We crossed the Canadian border! As most of my maternal-side of the family is from Canada, it has always been somewhere I wanted to go. When two of our friends told us they were getting married an hour outside Toronto- we were super excited (for the wedding of course)! We flew into Buffalo, [...]
Postcards and Airplanes 