What can I say? It has been a whirlwind few weeks making our way through nature's playground - Iceland! While I did happen to miss Wednesday's post, I give you some Friday awesomeness to bring in your weekend. Reykjavik, Iceland has some of the best street art/graffiti I've seen and on a massive scale. The… Continue reading Photo Friday: Reykjavik Street Art
What do you do when you find yourself in New York for just a few hours? We arrived to a pull out bed at our friend Steve’s house at 10:30pm after a long flight from Anchorage, Alaska (and a delay) starting at 4am. I look down at my phone and groan. “It is only 6:30… Continue reading Faster than a New York Minute
It had almost been 5 months since our last hostel experience out in Tupiza, Bolivia- yet here we found ourselves - in Iceland - and really, the only way to make this a budget endeavor in any way was to either Couchsurf or hostel it. With our breakneck pace of doing thing around Reykjavik, I… Continue reading Weekend Review: Reykjavik Downtown Hostel
If you're planning on taking a small road trip along the Seward Highway from Anchorage, Alaska, make sure to make the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center a highlight of your trip. Shaun and I are normally zoo people (don’t hate) but as of lately we’ve been a little worried about the state of the animals and… Continue reading Hidden Gem: Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Oh Anchorage Alaska! You are so cute, so quaint, and so incredibly cliche. Everything I ever imagined about Alaska you have decorating the sides of your street. And while I would love to have money coming out my hoohah to afford nice furs, I was perfectly content starting into your windows, drooling. You even opened… Continue reading Discovering Anchorage Alaska
*CRUNCH CRUNCH* I awkwardly make my way across the ice. There is a reason that I never made it as a professional ballerina. Besides the fact that I would have despised the tutu, I just can’t hack it in the grace department. Regardless - I had made it to our first glacier. What was supposed… Continue reading The World’s Largest Snowcone: The Matanuska Glacier
We arrived to Anchorage, Alaska a bit tired and and a bit confused about how it could only be 12:30am. I forget that traveling into the past gives you a new type of jet lag - we are always going East. A super quick check in by the friendly clerk at the counter led us… Continue reading Saturday Review: The Hilton Garden Inn – Anchorage, Alaska
Don't say I didn't give you enough time to plan. T-Minus 34 days until I hit the big 3-0 and I'm inviting YOU to my birthday party at Oktoberfest. Join us for a few days of beerful events. To be honest, I'm hoping to consume enough to forget that my birthday even really happened and… Continue reading You’re Invited to My Oktoberfest Birthday!
I rubbed my eyes and squeed an annoying amount of times. This can't be real, right? I mean, Alaska was just kinda plopped into my lap. One of those destinations that come alive in your dreams. One of those that you're not really sure you will get to experience. I mean, I had already flapped… Continue reading Road Trip Through Alaska, the Last Frontier
We’ve thought about it. We’re slow travelers. What better way to support our lifestyle than to get into house-sitting? How does one become a house sitter? Enter Pete and Dalene Heck of Hecktic Travels: They have opened my eyes to what can be accomplished with this lifestyle. We’re responsible. We’re quiet. We like animals. This… Continue reading E-Book Review: How to Become a House Sitter
Just a little bit of awesomeness to get you through this Friday and into the weekend. There is nothing like a good ol' big of Chicago in HDR.
As we sit here waiting for our friend to pick us up and take us to the airport, I can't help but focus on that sickly feeling of bundled nerves in my stomach. The butterflies have turned into a mass of locusts and I can't believe we're about to head out on another big trip.… Continue reading The New NEW Packing List
Meet Zach Nelligan of Triple Crown Tattoo. He is the hand and tattoo artist behind my chest piece (also known as my lovely, LOOK AT ME I’M FROM TEXAS, YA’LL, tattoo) along with our 5th wedding anniversary matching tattoos. He not only has his own unique “old school” style but is constantly traveling all over… Continue reading A Traveling Tattoo Artist? The Way to Go!
Couldn't help myself and took out my camera to take pictures of gleeful kids excitedly splashing around during the summer in Chicago.
It is weird writing about our “next big trip” - something I couldn’t even fathom at the beginning of our last year in Central and South America. It is like we are a perfect fit for long term travel or something. So I present: THE PLAN OF ATTACK - FALL/WINTER 2012 Because, you know, there… Continue reading The Upcoming Plan of Attack
