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This is my second blog post about my trip to Peru. I’m writing in the order of my favorite days, so if you didn’t see the first post about my amazing day in Machu Picchu, check it out here. I traveled to Peru with my awesome Australian friend Adam who happens to have a …
I’m not a big planner. And I’ve learned from my past trips that sometimes the best things come from unmade plans. So my Peru trip was much like that- before we left we had two things figured out: our tickets to and from Peru, and the knowledge that we wanted to see Machu Picchu …
Wow, it has been awhile since I first started blogging about my trip to Norway! But this past week I’ve been getting lots of notifications from Timehop reminding me that it’s my one year anniversary of visiting one of the most amazing places I’ve ever had the fortune of seeing- Lofoten Islands. If you need …
This blog post is about my 3rd and 4th day in France with a school trip I took with my students over spring break. We spend two days in Paris, which you can read about here (day one and day two). Easter, April 1st 2018, also April Fool’s Day but today was no …
This is day two of my Paris, Provence and Barcelona school trip, spent entirely Paris. If you didn’t read about the first day in Paris, check out the first blog here. After a very full first day in which we got off the plane and immediately explored Paris until bedtime, our wake up call was …
When I was 15 years old, I took my first trip overseas with my French teacher. We spent 2 weeks in France, during which time we traveled all over the country and I even did a few overnights with a French family. It was exhilarating, it was terrifying (mostly because I never spoke in my French …
Kentucky is known for many things: bourbon, horses, bludegrass, fried chicken…Kentucky is an easy roadtrip from Ohio, and maybe you’ve visited before, but this blog focuses on some of the lesser known, unique aspects of Kentucky.
After driving from the south of Norway and working our way north to explore the fjords, hike, camp and take in all the sights of Norway, we passed into the Arctic Circle. We were nearing the end of the Norway aspect of our trip, but we had one last destination- the Lofoten Islands. So …
After spending our ninth day in Norway hiking a glacier and waking up in a beautiful cabin overlooking the mountains of Norway, we woke up feeling refreshed and pumped to spend another day of adventure in Norway- this time focusing on the area of the Geirangerfjord. We began our drive, taking us about two …
After spending the evening in Bergen, we packed up the car the next morning and headed for something that we had read about and were SOOO pumped to see- Aurlandsfjellet- the snow road! Our first stop on our way to our destination was the town of Flam. Like our other days of driving, we passed …