Weird Activities and Awkward Encounters at home and abroad
Yet again this year over Memorial Day weekend Disney World’s Magic Kingdom as well as DIsneyland Resort hosted the “Rock Your Disney Side” 24 hour event and really tried to make #disneyside happen. Of course, they made it happen, it just didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but if they can make Frozen…
I was nominated for the first time back in January for the Liebster Award, and I’m very flattered to be nominated for my second time. The Liebster Award is an award given to new bloggers by new bloggers and paid forward much like a chain letter without the superstition, but it’s a great way to…
Wanderlust sets in pretty quickly after I return home from a trip. Unfortunately, Africa cleaned me out financially for a bit, not to mention the fact that it’s recital season and my directors would be none too happy about me leaving until after the mid-June show. Knowing I’m stuck here, even if it is just…
I love making airport friends. Everyone has a story. They’re coming from somewhere and going to somewhere, and best of all every conversation has an expiration date. You can talk about anything you want and know that you’ll probably never have to see these people again. There’s a literal “plane to catch.” One of my…
About six months ago, around the time this blog was born, I was dabbling in the exciting world of airline miles. I read others accounts of travel hacking and credit card churning. They earned hundreds of thousands of miles and traveled the globe staying in 5 star resorts for free. That sounded pretty okay, but…
Okay, so this is more of a “dream Africa packing list”, or an “if I had it to do again packing list” or a “why didn’t someone tell me before I went packing list?” but those titles are a bit wordy. As many of you know I returned from my first trip to Africa a…
It only took two weeks of being back home from Africa before I started getting restless again. Another big trip is not really in the budget right away (not to mention the struggle to get time off of work), so I had to keep it close by. I know I’ve written about it before, but…
Last weekend I took an impromptu (the best kind) trip to St. Augustine. I got a great deal on a hotel and really needed to get away. Apparently being in the same place for a week and a half is a bit much for me. The hotel I was staying at, the Casa Monica, gave…
My last full day in Africa I finally got to go to the place I had heard everyone mention throughout my trip, Maji Moto. I knew it was a hot spring and that there were fish that would eat dead skin off of my feet, but that was about the extent of my expectations of…
It’s pie time! Today and tomorrow Celebration, FL hosts the annual Great American Pie Festival, so now seemed like a great time to take a break from the re-cap of my amazing African adventures and focus temporarily on things back home. What’s the exact opposite of Africa and about the most American thing in the…
