The musings of an amusing traveling blonde
Sandwiched between the touristy Mykonos and Santorini, we spent two days each in Naxos and Paros. These islands had a much slower, calmer pace. Naxos felt like a quieter Mykonos, with similar white wall and grey stone winding alleys (sans tourists). We loved walking through the Old Market, popping into shops and getting lost. After…
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Visiting Syros feels like being in on a secret. When planning our trip to the Greek Islands, we wanted to balance touristy destinations with quiet, lesser known and more authentic islands. Syros was a short ferry ride between Athens and Mykonos so we originally viewed it as a stopover. However, I quickly realized it is…
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Josh’s birthday falls on Memorial Day weekend and with his big 30th coming up, we wanted to take advantage of the long weekend and head abroad! We were able to find great nonstop overnight flights to Copenhagen, where we could visit one of Josh’s best friends, Aaron and his wife, Frida, who have lived there…
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There are countless travel guides to Turks and Caicos out there and this one by no means claims to be any better. It may, arguably, be worse. But it’s my $.02 and whatever that’s worth to you is fine by me. Where to Stay The Shore Club: The Shore Club is arguably one of the…
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Hey, what if we went to Croatia for 4th of July? That’s really all it took for my boyfriend and I to start planning our somewhat last minute European road trip. Within 48 hours of deciding to go to Croatia, we had charted out our entire 9 day itinerary, booked our flights, and cashed in…
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So, I accidentally moved to Aruba for a month. I went there on a Thanksgiving vacation, fell in love with a handsome dutch kite-surfer, canceled my flight four times, went home for a week for Christmas and right flew back for New Years. As one does. Ask me about it over a drink if you…
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Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama! Okay, okay, I’m done with my personal sing-a-long. My trip to Aruba started like most good stories do (actually, most of my bad stories start like this too, but just go with it). I was wine drunk on a Tuesday and FaceTimed one of my college best friends, and…
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It feels like most exotic place I’ve gone in the last two and a half months is the Fedex down the street, so when Memorial Day weekend came about I was anxious to go somewhere. My family and I started brainstorming places we could go where we could be outdoors, away from other people and…
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Flight Canceled. The big, bold, red text in my American Airlines app annoyed me, as if somehow the color of the words alone was rubbing salt in my wounds. I had been working in sunny Los Angeles for three days and was excited to get on my flight home back to cold and snowy Chicago,…
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Simply put, Petra was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of cool things. I don’t have the words to describe just how magnificent it is, so I’ll give you the next best thing- a few tips for your visit so that you can just go see it yourself.…
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