
A Golden Morning at Goldbug Hotsprings
We arrived after dark with our packs loaded and ready to hike. There were four of us and we were all severely overloaded for an easy one and a half mile hike and two night stay. I was carrying...
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When in Europe…
When I was 16 years old, I got the opportunity of a lifetime! I was a competitive gymnast and the owner of our gym told my time about a trip to Austria. My best friend on my team and I had to go!...
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A Little Slice of Heaven
I left on my mission trip to Haiti expecting to have a memorable and life-changing experience. At that point I thought of Haiti solely in terms of "the poorest country in the...
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My Tennessee Adventure
When I was in tenth grade I travelled to Tennessee to visit my best friend Amber. Amber had moved away when we were in the third grade, but we had always...
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Authentic Chai With You
I have found nothing quite like the richness of the gravy-air in the land of spices. You could blindfold me and put me on an India-bound airplane without telling me where on earth I was going, and once...
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A place where the sun rarely sets in the summer:)
My journey to Alaska all started with me having a rough year with school and other personal problems and I just wanted to get away from Wisconsin. My parents suggested that I find a seasonal job in...
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A smile is a smile, no matter where you are
In the brief seventeen years of which I have lived on this planet, I have traveled to eighteen different states, nine different countries, and...
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My trip to Bruges, Belgium
Bruges (Brugge), Belgium Being an au pair for 3 energetic boys can be exhausting work. So when a free weekend became available, I jumped at the...
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