The flights and hotels are booked. We're officially headed to Morocco and Portugal this May. I'm officially going to have been to 30 countries by the time I turn 30. For the record, I have the world's greatest husband. I am so grateful he goes along with some of these crazy ideas and genuinely supports …
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Fewer Resolutions, Continued Success in 2014
I completed all of my 2013 New Year's Resolutions. I've never been able to do that, but I think I made them flexible and reasonable, and I definitely held myself accountable by writing about them here. Thanks to the diversity of things I chose--many to improve myself, such as enrolling in a master's degree program, …
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2013 Travel Recap
Each year I try to recap the places I've been. I didn't start my blog until 2009 (years prior to 2009 involved lots of travel so I don't know how I would have recapped all of that!) and the trips have been reasonable--both domestic and international, and some not so far from home. Although I …
Honeymoon Travel: Romania
The underdog of our honeymoon was Romania. I had been waiting forever to see Turkey and Greece, and I was excited about Croatia and the good things I'd heard about Dubrovnik; but I didn't have much background or information or really any idea what we were getting ourselves into visiting Romania. We actually threw it …
Honeymoon Travel: Ionian Coast
The last port of our honeymoon cruise was along the Ionian Coast of Turkey--Izmir (formerly Smyrna). I was fascinated with Turkey and would love to return--we really only touched the surface of Istanbul, and Izmir and Ephesus were a completely different experience that really indicated the incredible vastness of what Turkey has to offer. Although …
Honeymoon Travel: Greece
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I originally thought we should go to Turkey and Greece for our honeymoon. Due to a fairly involved travel schedule in order for us to do everything we wanted, we opted to set that trip aside for another time when we're on a regular vacation and planned a …
Honeymoon Travel: Italy
Our honeymoon cruise took us to two ports in Italy--Venice and Bari. Venice was a very popular port for people joining and leaving the cruise--I would say the majority of passengers actually began and ended there. We had looked at doing the same but flying in and out of Italy was nearly twice the cost …
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