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...

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...