Merry Christmas!

Warm, summer breezes and not a decoration in site. It doesn’t feel like Christmas here in Kenya. Not at all, except for the Christmas music I have playing and the small wrapped gifts I have sitting on my table. This is my second Christmas in Kenya, and although we are not partaking in hairy goat […]

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Portland and My Loves

On my fifth trip to Portland, my true loves gave to me…. Oh Portland. Aside from rainy and cold days, I do love you so. En route to Kenya (okay so it’s not exactly on the way, but) I took a detour to visit my bestest friends in Portland. The trip started out with an invite-only […]

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A Little Escape to the Outer Banks

When Megan and Sarah, former colleagues from South Africa, contacted me on Wednesday to take a little vacation starting on Thursday, it all happened so fast. We wanted a fun place to meet between New York City and South Carolina and found ourselves meeting in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They picked a house […]

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A Last Minute Getaway & Stop at South of the Border

When I opened my email on Wednesday morning, there was a message from my dear friend Megan who I worked with in South Africa last year. She had taken a last minute flight from Colorado to New York City to visit our other friend Sarah, and they wanted to meet up. I was about to […]

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U.S. Road Trip Officially Concludes

So even if the road trip technically ended, oh about eight months ago, my posts on the US Road Trip are finally finished (except for telling you about some of our ‘interesting’ Couchsurfing experiences which I still fully intend to do). I took a break on writing about the road trip when I left for […]

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Last Stop in St. Louis: Budweiser

There aren’t many things in life that I find more disgusting than beer. So, it’s pretty ironic that the last place I visited on my US Road Trip was the Budweiser brewery in St. Louis. On my final week on the road, my dad joined me and not only did he want to visit Coors […]

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