“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? Seriously, [...]
“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 continued [...]
If you plan to spend some time in Paris, I would encourage you to rent a car and spend some time in the countryside. There are so many beautiful cities you can visit, we stayed near Mont St. Michel and Bayeux which were two great choices. Mont St. Michel is located near several really interesting [...]
"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."Samuel L. Jackson The three days we spent in London were so fun and filled with fantastic food, great sights and history, amazing architecture, and too many fun memories to put down on paper- or even remember for that matter! My [...]
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." Lord Byron I feel like the theme of this trip was "we'll sleep when we're dead!" (I [...]
"O, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That’s sweetly played in tune."Robert Burns Other than Paris, I haven't fallen in love with a city I wanted to move to immediately- until I visited Edinburgh. The sweet classic charm of Edinburgh is [...]
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587) After a glorious trip around Ireland and Northern Ireland, the time had come to cross over to [...]
I have been an over-packer my entire life, until last year! I challenged myself to only carry-on my luggage for a two and a half week trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland last summer- and I crushed it! During this particular vacation we stayed in nine different locations in England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, [...]
After a long day of travel from Galway, and learning about folklore at the Giant's Causeway, we traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland. We only had one night, and a half day the following morning before we took a ferry toward Glasgow, Scotland, but we made the most of it! When we finally found our airbnb [...]
"I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge." - C. S. Lewis After spending a night in Galway, Ireland, we woke up early to make the four hour drive to Giant's Causeway on our [...]
Postcards and Airplanes 