After our trip to Fredericksburg, TX, Sara and I had that itch to travel – even more so than the past year when we couldn’t! Even so, neither of us had been vaccinated yet, though we both are now…yay! With that in mind, we were trying to come up with some more ideas to travel “locally”, i.e. within Texas, but …

2021 brought a new year and new (albeit modified) travel plans! Our first trip was to celebrate my 30th birthday in early January, and given the Covid vaccine was not readily available to most people our age at that point, we wanted to make sure we were super cautious. Ultimately, I decided on a local trip to Fredericksburg, TX, which …

Only 24 hours after my adventures on the Olympic Peninsula, I was back on the road for a casual 2,700-mile drive from Seattle, Washington to Austin, Texas! Given the year we were having in 2020 and the fact that I’d already been missing my friends and family a ton before we were all in lockdown for the better part of …

In more than three years living in Seattle, I had never made it out to the Olympic Peninsula, though I had wanted to go since my first week in Washington. So when I accepted a job that would be bringing me back to Texas at the end of 2020, it became my mission to make sure I took a trip …

Come July, I decided it was time for a vacation before I got super busy at work in the fall, and given we are living in a COVID-19 world, I came to the conclusion that this meant I was going to have a vacation with me, myself, and my dog, Misha. I knew by this time that I would most …

2020 slowed down travel for many, if not most of us, so when my parents decided that they were going to drive from Houston, Texas to Sun Valley, Idaho for the month of June to avoid the Texas heat, I was overjoyed – not just because they were close enough for me to go visit them from Seattle, but also …

Known as the “Pink City” for its trademark terracotta pink buildings, Jaipur is a beautiful and interesting city to visit.

After our three days in Hanoi, Vietnam and an overnight layover at the Bangkok Airport, we made our way from Bangkok to Khao Sok National Park, where we’d be staying the night on a floating bungalow! I sort of stumbled upon Khao Sok when researching places to visit in Thailand, as it isn’t a well-known tourist destination. And, as it …

When we started planning our trip to Thailand, my first thought was ELEPHANTS. I’ve loved elephants since I was a kid, so I knew we needed to visit an elephant sanctuary. I also knew that a lot of places exploit and abuse elephants, and it was important to me to avoid those places during our trip. After some thorough research, …