In the Spring of 2004 I spent a really long Spring break trekking around Europe with Lisa. From Ireland we went to Brussels to Amsterdam to Paris to Rome, which included a quick visit to Florence, and then headed back to Ireland to take our final exams, after which, we would fly off to London […]
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
This is Mike and I in Rome. He studied abroad there while I was in Ireland. He doesn’t look like a caveman have a beard anymore, that was just a Roman experiment.
I stole that from one of my favorite bloggers- Franki Durbin of life in a venti cup. Once a year she commits to a life tune-up because she “genuinely believes you have to design the life you want.” Think about that for a second…so simple, but so true. In a recent post, she invited her […]
Every single time I hear Mr. Jones by the Counting Crows, I am back in Ireland– in a pub. The same goes for Hey Ya by Outkast and Shut up by the Black Eyed Peas. Those three songs were quite popular there back in 2004. When I hear Skylarking by Mic Christopher, I am sitting […]
Martha’s Vineyard is an island off the coast of Massachusetts, south of Cape Cod to be exact. It is most commonly known to be a place where affluent individuals and families “summer,” and I do mean that as a verb. Despite the yuppie stigma, it is definitely a place for anyone to enjoy- even if […]
When traveling for extended periods of time, ambitiously equipped with maps marked with places you wish to see, crossing off those places one at a time with a strong sense of accomplishment, you can accidentally turn enjoyment and exploration into a task – like when you are at work and you have a to do […]
When I graduated from college I had no idea what I was going to do. After settling into my 2nd (not including my time as “undecided”) and final major – English – I had finally found what I liked to study, but when asked what I had planned to do with that major my answer […]
I’m not gonna lie – I always thought of myself as a beer snob. But when I saw that Marie Claire’s Travel Blog listed the best beers to try abroad the other day, I can’t say that I can comment on many of them. I have tried a bunch of Belgian beers though and I […]
