• Epiphanies from a week at Home

    First of all, I have to apologize (to myself more than my small reader base) for being MIA for the past few days. Unfortunately my very old, very sick grandmother passed away last week so I ended up flying home to be with my mother and cheer her up (but before you start posting condolences…


  • Conquering Your Fears pt. 3

    After Fiji, I spent a week touring the North Island of New Zealand before traveling to Australia for two weeks. And on the second day in NZ, we were given the choice whether we wanted to do a SkyWalk or a SkyJump from the 630foot (192m) high Auckland Sky Tower.


  • Conquering Your Fears – pt.2

    Fiji was probably to most adrenaline-based two weeks of the entire trip (which makes sense – the program I was on was called “Pacific Adrenaline”).


  • Conquering Your Fears – pt.1

    My entire life I have been deathly afraid of heights. Every time I was high off the ground and would look down, my heart would race and my body would cling to the nearest stationary object.


  • EuroTrip 2016

    My flights are officially booked! As of October 19th, 2016, I will be backpacking around Europe on my own for 2 months (plus 1 month where my amazing parents will be joining me – and helping pay for it). For those of you who may be curious, this giant trip will bring my countries-I-have-visited total…