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New Zealand 2: Boarding the Stray Bus and Raglan Beach
After 3 very long and wet days living it up in Auckland, we woke early Tuesday morning to walk to the appointed meeting place for our North Island adventure! Upon finding Stray Bus, we immediately knew...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! An Ode to Ireland
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Are you celebrating? In honor of today, here is my brief ode to Ireland, one of my favorite places in the world. We are going back this September and I could not be more...
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New Zealand 3: Waitomo Glowworm Caves and Doing the Haka
New Zealand Day 2: Boarding the Stray Bus and Raglan Beach After our night in the rainforest (or so we dubbed our Raglan hostel), we boarded the bus and drove towards Waitomo for a day at the famous...
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The Only Constant is Change… We’re moving back to the States!
Hello April! 2 weeks until the wedding! It seems like whenever I post on this blog I’m always saying “omg time flies” or “sorry for posting so late” or “whoops here’s travel photos from a year ago...
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Memphis in May (and April)
Well hello there! Or should I say hey ya’ll. At least that’s how we do it in Memphis. A lot has happened over the last month or so and all good things. First things first, we got hitched! I am still...
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New Zealand 4: I’m Going on an Adventure… Hobbiton and Lake Aniwhenua
We are going on an adventure! Where? To the wonderful world of Hobbiton! When choosing our daily activities with the Stray Bus on our North Island tour, I knew I HAD to visit this famous movie set. Yes...
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New Zealand 5: Hot Springs and Cliff Swinging in Rotorua and a very blue night
It’s been so long since I’ve blogged but I have an excuse! We bought a house!!! It is so pretty and cute and I love it. We close on June 30th so things are a bit mad. But that’s life. Back to to New...
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New Zealand 6: Horseback Riding and Lamb Cuddling at Blue Duck Station
We fell asleep easily in our warm bunk beds after a fun and long night around the fire and woke up to the stunning scenery of the Blue Duck Station. I elected for an afternoon activity and was finally...
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New Zealand 7: The Tongariro Crossing… a Tale of ice picks and wet socks
For more New Zealand posts Click Here The 4:30am wake up call came way too soon after a fitful night of sleep at Blue Duck Station. Jolted awake by the sheep bleating of M’s alarm, I groaned and rolled...
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New Zealand 8: A Wellington Hen Party and reaching my travel peak
After living abroad and traveling the world in short bursts, I can attest that there comes a point during travel when you have reached your peak. (Sometimes but not always a literal peak like the...
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Back in Ireland… Hurling and History in Galway
In September, I spent two weeks in one of my favorite countries in the world… Ireland! Usually I never return to places I’ve traveled internationally so I felt very lucky indeed to be back in the...
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Connemara: Bogs, Fjords and Kylemore Abbey
The last time I was in Galway for a hot second, we didn’t get to see much of the surrounding area so I was excited to see more of the famous rugged landscape of the western coast of Ireland. Before...
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2015: My Year in Review
I was just reading through my 2014 Year in Review and laughing at my concluding thoughts on what 2015 would bring. Boy oh boy I was so incredibly wrong!! Like in your face wrong. “As for 2015, it will...
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Biking the Aran Islands… Again!
Ireland Day 1: Back in Ireland… Hurling and History in Galway Ireland Day 2: Biking the Aran Islands… Again! Have you ever been to a place that is so beautiful you cannot even comprehend its...
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The Enchanted Forest and Castle of Cong
As soon as I found out I was headed back to Ireland, I immediately knew the places I wanted to revisit around Galway. Obviously I would take my family for some live Irish music in Galway, visit the...
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Dunguaire Castle, Aillwee Caves and wild walks at the Cliffs of Moher
After such an amazing day in Cong (check this place out!), I was excited to get back to the Cliffs of Moher and show my family this spectacular place. First stop on our drive to the cliffs was...
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Adare and Limerick, featuring cold and damp Irish castles
On our 6th day in Ireland we FINALLY experienced some real Irish weather! Hahaha. Thankfully both times I have visited Ireland it has been unusually sunny and warm. I even got horribly sunburnt on the...
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Lazy afternoons at The Guinness Storehouse
After 6 glorious days exploring in and around Galway, it was time to leave our cozy condo in Salthill and drive to Dublin. Taylor and Stephen were headed back to Philadelphia while my parents and I...
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Down to Southeast Ireland: Kilkenny
It was hard to leave Taylor and Stephen behind in Dublin but I was beyond excited to explore southeast Ireland at last! We headed south to County Kilkenny where we would be spending the next couple of...
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Mount Juliet Estate: A little slice of heaven in the Irish countryside
After our brief time in Kilkenny, we continued south to our next destination, Mount Juliet Estate. As soon as we pulled up to the big white house on the hill overlooking a stream and green fields, I...
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