The musings of an amusing traveling blonde
My last six Thanksgivings have been spent in Nepal, Dubai, Israel, Aruba, and Turks & Caicos. Not wanting to break tradition, Josh and I looked into warm and beautiful places to spend this year’s holiday and quickly decided on Mexico. After a busy few months of work and grad school, we mainly wanted to relax,…
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Mykonos was a vibe… it just wasn’t our vibe. We choose to stay on the southern part of Mykonos, near Paradise Beach where we spent three nights at the Soho Roc House. It was an incredibly designed property, and definitely the highlight of our stay on the island. After spending a relaxing day at our…
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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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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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I think most people would agree that 2017 was kind of a weird year, but hey- at least it turned out to be a pretty good travel year for me. I must admit the first half of the year felt kind of like repeatedly stubbing your toe into a coffee table, but the second half…
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I was having coffee on the lawn of my guest house in Tolka, overlooking the terraced hills of the Himalayas when an older gentlemen with the most soothing voice struck up a conversation with me. His name was Joel, pronounced Joelle- the Italian way. He was born and raised in Ann Arbor, but has been…
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The End. Fin. Cue: We are the Champions. Follow with “Closing Time.” In what seems like a blink of an eye (if blinking were really hard and took ten days of going up and down hills) my trek has come to an end. Immediately after exiting the trail, and seeing my taxi waiting to take…
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The four hour trek from Jhinu to Tolka felt like a walk in the park. If, let’s say, that park was actually a jungle with waterfalls, old suspension bridges with missing wooden planks, and oxen running through it. I don’t mean to brag, but my room in Tolka had an outlet and real walls and…
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I noticed the further I go downhill, so does the quality of my writing. You’re probably thinking that someone who has nothing but time on their hands and is just walking for hours on end has all the time in the word to think about deep and profound life things. Alas, that is not the…
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I hopped out of the icebox called a bedroom that I shared with a Thai and Taiwanese girl, and caught the sunrise over basecamp to say goodbye to the glorious view of Annapurna. I sat silently looking at the view that I had pushed so hard to reach, and started reflecting on my own life…
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