Behind the Scenes: How I Plan My Travel
Every couple of days, I get an email or Facebook message or text from a college friend I haven't talked to in years asking...
Riding the Harry Potter Train in Scotland
I remember when I was first introduced to Harry Potter. I was about 13 years old, in Miss Barkett's 7th-grade English class, and we...
Liverpool for the Beatles Fan
For as long as I can remember, The Beatles have been in my life. Growing up, my sister and I used to frequently sift...
Bloggers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Travel Day
Anyone who has traveled for any length of time knows that travel is definitely NOT unicorns and rainbows all the time. Sure, it's fun...
24 Hours in York: A First-Timers Guide
In the past handful of years, I've managed to visit the United Kingdom a grand total of 5 times. It's officially the country (outside...
Sagrada Familia: You’ve Never Seen a Church Like This Before
Once upon a time, a man named Antoni Gaudi decided he wanted to build a church. But this wouldn't be just any church. No,...
Top 9 Questions About Solo Travel Answered
As a woman who travels solo a lot (and yes, still a lot even though I've been in a serious relationship for the last...
The Most Famous Fjord in Norway
It was drizzling slightly as I pulled my rental car into the car ferry line at Hellesylt and popped into the gift shop for a...
The Scottish Highlands with Highland Explorer Tours
It doesn't really matter how many times I've been to moody Glencoe or seen the shores of Loch Ness or taken photos of Eilean Donan...
When I’m 64 Tour Highlights
I shared my very first passport stamp with my mom 10 years ago. First passports. First trip outside of North America. First passport stamps. For...
All You Need to Know About Visiting Alesund
Here's the thing you need to know about Norway: no matter where you go in the country, you are pretty much guaranteed to find something awesome....
5 Lessons From 5 Years of Travel Blogging
Five years ago, I was working full-time as a copy editor at a small, family-owned newspaper in northwest Ohio. I worked weird hours and...
5 Middle Earth Locations You Can Visit in Real Life
For a long time, it was only possible to visit J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Middle-Earth through imagination. Traveling to the Shire and Rivendell and the realm...
The Shortest Yet Most Epic Road Trip Ever
The tunes were blasting from my iPhone (because no radio station would come in). The windows were wound down (though I was bundled up...
Adventures in the Pyrenees
In some ways, I'm actually a pretty terrible traveler. Traveling on and off for years, I've become complacent about certain things. Sure, I've learned...
Going Back in Time in Grip
I'll be perfectly honest with you: I had never heard of Grip before seeing it on the itinerary for my trip to Norway. I...
Visiting the Alhambra in Spain: What It’s Really Like!
As soon as I started telling people I was going to Spain for the first time, I began getting an outpouring of suggestions about...