The journey continued with a ridiculously long day of travel departing Buenos Aires at 4am, 3 flights between 3 countries and finally sharing a taxi with a new airport buddy to meet my 2 friends in Cartagena at 8:30pm. Total travel time = 16 hours. Needless to say, I was so excited to meet my … Continue reading Part 2: Adventures in Cartagena and El Caribe
In September 2013, I had just arrived in the Czech Republic for my Fulbright year and remember receiving an excited message from my good friend from university: she was engaged! For a moment I remember feeling so far away—not only physically, but also emotionally. Here was my friend taking a huge step to settled adult … Continue reading Part 1: Buenos Aires Walking and a Wedding
For our now second-annual springtime girl’s weekend (last year was Delaware), my two university friends and I elected Pennsylvania as our midway destination. We actually chose this about a week and half prior to our target weekend and did very little planning before showing up at our Holiday Inn in Lansdale, PA. With mutual goals … Continue reading A Rainy Weekend in Pennsylvania
Ever since I was little I have loved the story of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Whether in cartoon, film, musical or book, something about the story has always captivated me and made the story seem as magical as Burnett intended. For those who do not know The Secret Garden, it is the … Continue reading The Secret Gardens of New York City
This post is was originally written in February 2012 after one of my first weekend trips to Krakow, Poland, during my study abroad semester in Prague. Thinking back, it may have been the first time when I truly felt the need to write down my thoughts in order to fully make sense of my experience. Upon returning … Continue reading Memory: Krakow, Poland
Maybe during the month of March I gave myself mild travel whiplash. For some reason, several travel plans managed to converge in March and so I’ve spent the past few weeks traveling around the coasts of the USA. Each mini-trip has been fun in it’s own separate way and with spring around the corner and … Continue reading March Madness
Last month my dad and I took a long weekend trip to Toronto for several exciting reasons: his birthday, my restlessness and NBA All Start Weekend. For years, my dad has always wanted to go to the All Star game and finally, the stars aligned for us to go when it would take place for … Continue reading Toronto All Stars
The last time I visited Guatemala with my family it was 2011. I had just finished my sophomore year of college, was about to spend my first summer working everyday in NYC and had never visited the Czech Republic. It seems like it was a very long time ago and that a lot has changed … Continue reading La Vida Linda de Antigua
With 2016 mere hours away, I was on a flight home from Guatemala and had time to think about my past year of travel with another stamp in my passport just in time. Here are my personal traveling highlights of 2015, with many other trips and stories in between. March 2015: Chicago Although I cannot … Continue reading 2015: Traveling On
When I told most people where I was heading for Thanksgiving, North Dakota, the response I received from most people was a small pause followed by the grand question, “Why?” When a few of my friends first met my stepmom several years ago, they asked if her accent was from a foreign country. I found … Continue reading North Dakota: Country Roads and Roots
Mariel Sporn Tavakoli 