Just last week I finished reading my first ebook, A Year Without Make-Up: Tales of a 20-Something Traveler by Stephanie Yoder, on the plane ride to Florida. I decided to buy the book, published by Thought Catalog, after reading a few reviews of it on some of my favorite blogs and I was not disappointed. … Continue reading
As we prepare to leave for Disney early tomorrow morning, I got to thinking about what inspires us to travel. As far as I can see there are various types of vacation. From my own personal experience I can think of six main types. I’ve divided them into neat little categories below (as historians are … Continue reading
One of the promises I made myself before this summer of endless travel was that I would take the time to reflect on each trip before getting excited about the next one. Here I am, two trips down, six to go, so I thought I’d take a moment to remember some things I love about … Continue reading
This summer is going to be incredible. I mean, every summer is incredible, but I’m just going to take a moment to get really excited about my travel plans for this year. I’ve never been to so many countries, so far apart, in such a short period of time before! Destination 1: Les Cayes, Haiti. … Continue reading
Happy April Fools Day! Man, the past three days have been so festive! Although April Fools Day makes me feel nervous through my entire day in real life, I always enjoy some of the digital pranks played by companies like google and hulu. Who gets paid to come up with these incredible realistic advertising campaigns for April … Continue reading
Have you ever gotten hold of a dollar bill with a url stamped on it in red ink?: wheresgeorge.com “Where’s George” allows you to see where your dollar bill has been and where it heads off to after you spend it. The other day I got a dollar bill with the red stamp on it … Continue reading
Today for Kappa Phi (a Christian women’s group I’m involved with on campus) we sold “Threads of Hope” bracelets in the Student Center. Impoverished women and children in the Phillipines make these bracelets and charity groups in the US can buy them to sell for $– sending the profits back to the families that made them. The … Continue reading
This weekend, and the week leading up to it, has been all about recruitment. Our chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta has been meeting girls the past two days and learning more about each other and the wonderful women of this school. Tomorrow I’m going to share that to me Theta has meant traveling the world … Continue reading
If I were granted three wishes from a genie I know that at least one of them would involve traveling to a different time. You can travel all over the world, hitting all the continents and even countries, but wouldn’t it be spectacular to see the Berlin Wall be torn down, to see Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading
Yesterday I posted a poll asking, if you could only keep your travel memories in one way, what would that be. The answers were varied. The most votes went to blogging–surprise, surprise. I should have known better asking that question around so many bloggers. Photos came in second, followed by a tie between photobook … Continue reading
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