Travel Resolutions 2019-2020

Carolina Beach, North Carolina, Labor Day weekend 2019 I've been making a point to evaluate my life in travel at the beginning each year and to set goals to be intentional about pursuing this love of mine. As I did last year, this New Year's Eve I am taking stock of the past year's goals...

The Honeymoon Series: Santorini Part I

Hello readers! If you’re reading this, my gracious sister has decided to let me post another blog after the book report I gave her last time. Sorry it’s been so long since my last blog, but here’s my list of excuses for the day: STILL pulling the wedding card, because have you ever written 100+...

Travel Tips from a Honeymooner in Europe

I have been a bit distracted with a hectic spring semester and quickly putting together a 25-day fieldwork trip to Northern Ireland and Ireland from which I returned a few weeks ago, so my travel writing has been a big behind. And now I have two more countries to add to my growing list of...

Travel Resolutions 2018-2019

A year ago, I made a New Year's resolution to pursue my love of travel more intentionally, something that I had been finding difficult during grad school. I set specific travel goals for 2018, and I am happy to report that I was fairly successful at meeting them! To review my 2018 goals: Start an...

Remembering the Holocaust: Visiting concentration camps

This will probably be the most difficult travel writing I do, and the least enjoyable to read, but it is also an important experience on which to reflect, today on Holocaust Remembrance Day and every day. I have visited two concentration camp sites while traveling in Europe: Dachau during my trip to Munich, and Auschwitz...

Olomouc, Czech Republic

For Part II and the main event for my Model UN trip to the Czech Republic, the team took the Hogwarts Express to a smaller city (population nearly 100,000) in the western part of the country called Olomouc, the capital of the province of Moravia. Okay, so it wasn't quite the Hogwarts Express, but it...

Czech it out: Prague, Czech Republic

I won't even apologize for the terrible pun in the title. After studying abroad in Spain for a semester, I returned to TCU for my senior year with a terrible case of wanderlust. It's a disease, really. But I never want to be cured of it 🙂 Fortunately, I did not have to wait long...

Munich, Germany (and a couple towns we didn’t know to expect)

For the final leg of our post-study abroad trip (minus the Mallorca layover, where we did nothing but lie on the beach for a glorious day), Alayna and I took a 90-minute train from Salzburg to Munich. This train ride from across the Bavarian countryside was the sort of beautifully cliché travel that I had...

The Sound of Music: Salzburg, Austria

"The hills are alive with the sound of music...with songs they have sung for a thousand years..." Okay. I am going to try not to quote the entire movie. But I am totally writing about Salzburg while listening to the Sound of Music soundtrack. Salzburg, Austria, was the second leg in my post-study abroad trip...

Packing for a Semester Abroad in Europe

I am one of those weird people who loves packing. When we were kids, my sister and I would make packing lists and cross-check them two weeks before a trip, because we're both those weird people who love lists (type-A runs in the family). Packing always gets me excited for the trip to come 🙂 After a...