2014 Travel Recap

2014 ended up being another year full of adventures, both personally and professionally, for our household. All of these opportunities allowed us to create incredible memories.

Oh, Canada!

It probably comes as no surprise that I am the planner in my household. It's in my nature. It's just what I do. Possibly to a fault. Therefore, it was a leap for me to turn over the responsibility of planning our one-year anniversary get-away to my husband. It wasn't that I questioned his capability. It …

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A Whole New World: Scuba Diving

My husband has wanted to try scuba diving for a long time. It was never high on my bucket list, but I try to be open to new experiences and he has certainly demonstrated his willingness to accommodate me in my pursuit of some crazy personal and professional goals. I decided this spring was finally time …

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Chicago 2.0

We were able to head back to Chicago for Independence Day and my 30th birthday (yikes!) thanks to an aptly timed professional development conference for work. My boss has been wonderful about letting us add on a few days when we attend conferences to enjoy the destination, and I usually also take my husband along since he …

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Cleveland Bucket List Success

We've been trying to knock some things off the mini list we created from the Cleveland Bucket List on a monthly basis since January. Although we haven't been successful in doing one per month, as I had originally hoped, I do think we've been pretty successful in keeping up with the list thus far. We picked a …

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Pleasurable Portugal

Despite having been to mainland Europe several times and having explored most of Western Europe, I somehow always missed Portugal. I thought it was comparatively expensive when I was first traveling abroad in 2005, and I thought it was difficult to get to by train from everywhere else when we were backpacking in 2007. In …

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