With the official start of springtime today, I can officially say I’ve made the most of winter. After several snowy stateside trips and a last-minute ski-day, I’m done and ready for spring to begin. It’s been a good one though winter 2017—not too cold and not an overwhelming amount of snow. Just enough, with a … Continue reading Chasing Winter
This is a long, boring account of an exciting, historic weekend in Washington DC. The Women’s March on Washington (or really on the world) took place on January 21, 2017. While the numbers were never conclusive, several estimates have come to between 3-4 million people taking part in marches on all 7 continents. Yet, between … Continue reading I Was There
While on a global scale 2016 was a pretty tumultuous year, personally, it was also a pretty big year of changes and big moves. I was lucky to be able to travel most months of the year and managed to check-off all the clichés on the young traveler’s list of being 25, quitting my job, … Continue reading 2016: Making Moves
When I decided to quit my “dream” job and move out of my apartment, I had a lot going on. It was hard to take a moment to appreciate that what I was really doing was closing this chapter of my life and saying goodbye to New York City. To so many people around the … Continue reading Goodbye New York City
In my hometown, most people kind of just stuck around the area after college. At my university, we have Homecoming each fall where hundreds of alumni return for a weekend of reminiscing and events. In Znojmo, many people, myself included, come back to wander the streets for the annual wine festival each September. In North Dakota, I was … Continue reading North Dakota: Grant County Fair
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
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
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 