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Scenes from the Week, Volume 111

August 28, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

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Scenes From the Week, Volumes 106 & 107

July 31, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

Filed Under: Scenes From the Week Tagged With: adventure, austin, nyc, the everyday, travel

Guest Post: Vacation Rental vs. Hotel

July 27, 2017 by Daniel Abernathy Leave a Comment

Today, my husband Daniel is sharing his second guest post on Everyday Accounts. He shared a fabulous men’s guide to backpacking Europe post early this year, and this time he is writing about the decision almost every traveler has to make when traveling to a new destination: should I book my lodging through a vacation rental… continue reading

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Scenes From the Week, Volume 100

June 13, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

Filed Under: Scenes From the Week Tagged With: Family, Philadelphia, the everyday, travel

Scenes From the Week, Volumes 97, 98, & 99

June 5, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

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Scenes From the Week, Volume 85 (and a Galentine’s Gift Exchange!)

February 27, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

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Three Months in Europe: Keeping the Budget

January 13, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

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. If you’ve been reading along on my blog before, you’ve heard me talk about this countless times since I am in the… continue reading

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Travel With Me // Toulouse & the Real Carcassonne

January 6, 2017 by Emily Leave a Comment

After two days in Arles, France, we hopped back on the train for the three-hour journey to Toulouse, our final stop in France. Toulouse is the only French city we knew we were going to visit for sure when we started planning this trip. My in-laws lived there for a year when they were newly-weds, so we… continue reading

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2016 in Review

December 30, 2016 by Emily Leave a Comment

2016, you were quite the year. You were a year full of adventure and change. You took us on the most epic adventure of a lifetime at a much earlier age than I could have imagined (see all related posts here, if you are interested) . In 2015, I thought you would be the year I… continue reading

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Scenes From the Week, Volume 75

December 19, 2016 by Emily Leave a Comment

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 reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts… continue reading

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