September 1-7, 2022 Soooo for my 27th birthday I really wanted to make it special, ya know to celebrate living another year and making changes in my life to prioritize my healing and overall happiness. I’m not going to lie, this trip was hard. I felt lots of big feelings. I felt lonely, I felt hopeful, I felt overwhelmed, I…
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June 15-16, 2023 When we decided to go back to Belgium for 2 weeks, our intention wasn’t to spend much time in Belgium – we booked an inexpensive AirBnb that still met most of our wants/needs (kitchen, tv, lounge space, and washer) and started figuring out places we wanted to take 1-2 day trips to! First up was Dusseldorf! Neither…
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How I like to prepare for longer trips is: Packing Step #1: at least a few days before your trip make a pile of clothes for your “first draft” or put them in a tote bag, grab the dirty clothes from your hamper and decide which of those you *might* want to bring and wash those – put into your…
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Getting Started + FAQ Hey, hi, hello. I’ve gotten a few questions about international travel/solo travel and I’ll continually add to this post when I receive more but I wanted to go ahead and get this FAQ list started! As a disclaimer, this is all just what’s worked for me. I took my first international trip (which also happened to…
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April 29th – May 1st, 2022 Waaaayyyy back in April 2022 I decided I needed to take a weekend to just get away, to be in nature, to spend time with myself and to see if I could make it on my own. Gosh, thinking back on this time it’s so crazy. I remember wanting independence, I remember wanting solitude,…
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January 4th – 5th, 2023 So this is not the most exciting trip but it was an adventure nonetheless! The only two times I’ve been in London is for super long 20-24 hour layovers when flying from Europe back home to the US. This time since I had a companion I felt like exploring more! We got into LHR (airport)…
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