Daniel and I fondly refer to our early 2016 European backpacking trip as “Big Europe”. It was, indeed, a big trip! I’ve written travel guides and summaries of our time in each of...

Welcome to my Scenes From the Week series! In these posts, I share the highlights from my previous week ranging from the simple, everyday things to the more memorable events. One of the primary...

After spending a couple of days in Lucerne, we headed back to the western part of Switzerland to spend one full day and a couple of nights in Geneva, our last stop on our tour of Switzerland! Our...

I’ve struggled to get this post on Lucerne together for a variety of reasons. The main reason is one I’ve mentioned before and which is consistently the culprit behind my blogging...

Today my husband Daniel is sharing his first ever guest post on the blog! In this post, he shares his perspective on backpack packing tips and his packing list from our European adventure. I shared...

Earlier this year, my husband and I did something crazy: we packed one backpack each, hit pause on our normal lives in Austin, and took off for a (nearly) three month adventure in Western Europe....

Earlier this year, my husband and I did something crazy: we packed one backpack each, hit pause on our normal lives in Austin, and took off for a (nearly) three month adventure in Western Europe....

For our day trip to Oxford, we traveled in by train from Bristol just as we did for our day trip to Bath the day before. The train journey to Oxford was much longer than to Bath (about an hour and...

Hello Friends! It has been entirely too long since I’ve posted in this space. All I can say is my job caught up to me again with long hours, and we have been doing quite a bit of traveling. I...

Today, I bring you the third and final post in my series on our trip to London this past May! This post will be much shorter than the other two. I just wanted to have a place where I could share...