While pouring over lists of the best and cheapest places to scuba dive, a tiny island off the coast of mainland Honduras kept appearing: Utila. I hadn’t heard of Utila before, but it appealed to me as a perfect place to pursue my Open Water scuba certification for several reasons: 1) its reputation for being a…
I’m writing this DC Restaurant Recap from Allie’s family home in Greensboro, North Carolina. In college, I spent Easters here with either Allie’s or Sarah’s family (“joint custody”) because home was too far for just a three-day weekend. A lot feels familiar – hanging out with their families, hearing stories from their childhoods, and snuggling…
Growing up, my family was not the type to go on cruises or stay at ski resorts. We roadtripped to Disney with maps in the backseat, hiked the Grand Canyon with a tour group, and boiled fresh lobster from the markets in Rhode Island in our hotel room (this was before Airbnbs were a thing……
I’ve said before that the greatest part of solo travel is the freedom of doing whatever I want, when I want to. But traveling with Maleah is even better, because we are pretty much always on the same page about what we do – and we can share allllll the food. We’ve figured out a…
I have distinct memories of kicking off the year in Chapel Hill each August by closing down South Road closed for Fall Fest. In preparation for UNC’s annual activities fair, an EMS station was set up right in the middle for students who inevitably passed out or got trampled in the thick North Carolina heat….
A little north of the main 14th Street corridor, new kid on the block Rooster & Owl is a pleasant contrast to the chaotic 14th Street I tend to find myself in the middle of. We went to check it out early on a Tuesday evening, when kids were still getting dropped off from school and dogs were…
*cue Augustana song* If I could average Boston and Austin, I’d get my ideal city: Southern-nice and laid-back vibes in Austin, the Boston waterfront and architecture, spectacular culinary scenes from both, perfect Boston summers, and bearable Austin winters. That said, there’s something about Boston’s cute cobblestone streets even in winter that make me think twice about…
I am fairly certain that the idea of going to Patagonia was planted in my head by some travel blogger’s Instagram story of sunrise on Mt. Fitz Roy, its face glowing orange as the first rays of alpenglow came up over the horizon. I went down a rabbit hole doing research on Patagonia for days….
When people ask what the best part of my Argentina trip was, I always say there is my favorite part, and then the most awesome part. And I mean awesome in the “awe-inspiring” sense of the word. My personal favorite was seeing the wild penguins in Ushuaia, while ice trekking on the Perito Moreno glacier was…
I didn’t mean to end up at the end of the world when I started planning my Patagonia trip. I fully intended to see the largest colony of Magellanic Penguins in world, which is in Punto Tombo on the Atlantic Coast of Argentine Patagonia. By the time I got around to booking domestic flights, however,…
A few weeks ago, I finally checked my fourth continent off the bucket list. Argentina was not only my first trip to South America, but also my first “solo” trip. When I returned, everyone wanted to know how I liked traveling by myself. The truth is, I wasn’t really alone the whole time. I met…
Cheers to the return of patio dining and rooftop bars! I heard on the radio that this has been DC’s rainiest July since 1945, so this past weekend of sunshine has been a (warm) welcome to August. People are starting to talk about summer being over, but as I mentioned in my post about summer…
