All About Cabrillo National Monument
Visiting Cabrillo National Monument was a highlight of my trip to San Diego, and I had too much to say to confine it to a paragraph in my San Diego post! If you’re in the area, this is an incredible stop…
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Cleveland, OH: Art, Cherry Blossoms, and the Eclipse!
As soon as I found out that a total solar eclipse was going to happen two days after my birthday this year, I knew that I wanted a birthday weekend in the path of totality! And, fortunately, one of my…
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Spring Break along the C&O Canal – Cumberland, Harpers Ferry, and more!
In returning to school for my master’s degree, one thing I was very excited about was the return of spring break and an essentially guaranteed free week to travel! Because this has already been a long and busy semester, we…
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A Short Guide to Grafton, WV
Small towns are some of my favorite places to visit! Some, like Grafton, used to be a bit bigger than they are today, while others have always been picturesque little towns. Because I love day-trips, small towns make for perfect…
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Working Vacation in San Diego, CA
Despite living in Arizona for the better part of four years, I never actually made it to California, so I was incredibly excited to tag along to my partner’s conference to visit San Diego. This was a working vacation for us…
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A Guide to Aix-en-Provence, France
In 2018, I spent a semester in France, and lived in the city of Aix-en-Provence. (“Aix” by the way is pronounced just by saying the letter “X.”) While I loved traveling around France and other parts of Europe during that…
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A Weekend in Morgantown, WV
Morgantown is one of the largest cities in West Virginia, but it’s one that I didn’t think much about until moving to this part of the state. Even for the first year that I was here, I still avoided Morgantown…
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A Working Vacation in Tucson
I loved living in Tucson, Arizona when I was in college, and I was excited to return for a few days in 2023. Ostensibly, I was attending a conference, but the more exciting part of this was getting to bring my…
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Snowbird Road Trip: Virginia, South Carolina, & Georgia
I have a tendency to get restless in the winter. While I love being cozy at home, after a while that tends to turn into cabin fever. Also, I get cold. And I only enjoy the cold for short amounts of time. So, when…
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A Winter Visit to Charleston, SC
Although I grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, I had never been to the larger and more well-known Charleston (South Carolina) until very recently. The end of 2023 was packed with a lot of travel and visiting family for me,…
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How to Spend a Weekend in Pittsburgh, PA
I visited Pittsburgh a few times as a child, usually for field trips to the Carnegie Museums, and I remember thinking that it was a magnificent city. Admittedly, I was not really familiar with it at all, but the magic…
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One Day around Wytheville, VA
I’m the kind of person who likes to live vicariously through other people’s adventures while also planning my own. (If you read this blog regularly, you probably know what I mean!) Not long ago, my aunt Kristi posted this video…
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