This spring I got to check another thing off my bucket list: riding the California Zephyr! The California Zephyr is an Amtrak train that takes you from Chicago to San Francisco in about 52 hours, if you do the whole route. My boyfriend and I were headed to Utah to visit Salt Lake City and…
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20 Trips to Take in Your Twenties
As someone who recently left her twenties behind, I wanted to reflect on all the travels I did during that period of my life (and what I missed but wish I hadn’t). I figured the best way to reminisce but also help anyone who finds this post was to make it into a guide of…
Yosemite Travel: 10 Tips for First Timers
There are an endless number of Yosemite travel blogs out there, so I wanted to take a different approach here. Instead of sharing an exact itinerary, I wanted to share my top 10 tips for first timers. While you should definitely have an itinerary in mind, that will take many different shapes depending on what…
Solana Beach Travel Guide
This Solana Beach travel guide will help you plan the perfect day or two in this cute little SoCal town. Solana Beach is less than four square miles, but don’t let its size fool you. 😉 It’s a place you go to just be–to slow down, drink good coffee and craft beer, take a scenic…
notes on coachella
Notes By now Coachella definitely feels like old news. Heck, it felt like people were over it after weekend 1. But I still wanted to jot down some of my thoughts about attending the festival as a non-influencer. I think a lot of the complaints and negatives you hear about Coachella are in the influencer…
Eco-friendly Travel: Plan a “Green” Trip
In recent years, with climate change at the forefront of global conversations, we’ve all been forced to consider the impact of our actions on the environment. And this extends to thinking about the way we travel– the experiences we engage in and the way we spend our money. Eco-friendly travel, sustainable travel, and green travel…
Quick Big Sur Road Trip During Covid
If you find yourself here, on my travel blog, then you probably know that I love to travel. I’m sure you’re also more than aware of the global pandemic that shut down the travel industry seemingly overnight in March 2020. When that happened and the world trip that I quit my job for was canceled,…
Getaway from San Diego: 11 Must-Do Trips
Let these ideas for a getaway from San Diego (1 to 4 hours away) inspire major wanderlust to plan your own Southern California adventure!