I cried for an hour straight last night. I haven’t done that since my father died. You’re probably wondering what the girl who just traveled the world for an entire year has to cry about. Don’t worry, I get annoyed with myself sometimes too. But Thomas Wolfe was right, you can’t go home again. And […]
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Day 8: Argentine Experience (make empanadas, mate…eat all the Argentinian steak and drink all the Argentinian wine) Day 9: Go to a country I didn’t know existed until recently (Uruguay) Day 10: Authentic tango show in Buenos Aires, Argentina Day 11: Tigre Delta (weekend like a local) & ate fried Oreos at Chicken Bros in […]
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Happiness isn’t what I thought it would look like. I’ve been dreading thirty-two for so long that I’m embarrassed to admit it was because of a Before Sunset quote I heard my sophomore year of college. “I was having this awful nightmare that I was thirty-two. And then I woke up and I was twenty-three. So […]
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If I had known that this was a dry festival…ok, I won’t be totally dramatic and say that I would have skipped…but VIP tickets would have definitely not happened. Who has a VIP lounge sponsored by Corona with NO ALCOHOL?! Alcohol is why you pay for VIP tickets! But I’ll stop complaining because the lineup was […]
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I’ll admit it…I was terrified!
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I’ve always been a bit scared to go white water rafting, even though it has been at the top of my list for years…because I hate cold water. And when you go rafting, chances are, you’re going to end up in the water at some point. Lucky for me, my raft didn’t tip even though […]
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Undoubtedly my favorite tour so far this year. Yesterday, for $50, I had a 4-hour private tour with the Community Leader of this town, a sociable woman who chastised me for not knowing more Spanish, and an English speaking guide from a nearby shanty town. And while I’ve greatly enjoyed Miraflores with its incredible restaurants […]
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It wasn’t Eat, Pray, Love that put Bali at the top on my bucket list. The report I wrote on Indonesia in the 5th grade kept me daydreaming for two decades. …it didn’t disappoint!
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#ThrowbackThursday to the summer of 2014! Striking a first pitch off my bucket list at a Memphis Redbirds game!
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I must confess that I have been dining alone for years…but it wasn’t until recently that I’ve become comfortable with it. In fact…dare I say it? I prefer to dine alone. Well, sometimes. When I first moved to LA, I couldn’t do anything solo, which was a problem since I didn’t know a single soul there. […]
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