I’ve been in China for just over 24 hours and I wanted to jot down my thoughts so far. I had a loooong journey from the US. I was in transit for over 24 hours and I only slept two or three hours over the course of those hours. While I was en route, I…
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This past weekend my family and I went camping at Grayson Highlands State Park for the weekend. I took along some of my backpacking and travel gear that I was itching to try out. I’m a big fan of my new tent, which I hope to have many more adventures with. On Saturday we took…
After being home for the first time in nearly a year for 5 days, I quickly left again to go to Minnesota for six weeks. I got back to North Carolina and stayed home for about 24 hours before leaving for nearly two weeks of non-stop traveling. Luckily, this time I didn’t go too far from…
A lot has happened since I last wrote a blog post. It’s been a really great two months, but I thought it was about time I caught up on the blog about what I’ve been up to and upcoming adventures.After leaving Switzerland, which is where I last left off on this blog, I went back…
The next day I got up early again to go back to the mountains! This time I was headed for Matterhorn. It was about a 3 or 4 hour train journey, so I got up early again. After many trains, I made it to Zermatt. I had originally planned to go on a long hike…
On the next day, we had something really exciting planned: going to Jungfrau and Grindelwald. I got up at 4:30 so we could make the four-and-a-half-hour journey to the top of Europe: Jungfraujoch. The whole way there was absolutely beautiful. After 4 trains, we finally made it to the top. The train takes you to…
On my second day in Switzerland, Pramay and I went to see a few places in the north of Switzerland. Our first destination was the Rheinfalls. This is apparently the biggest waterfall in Europe as far as volume of water going through it. Having seen it, that doesn’t surprise me. We got to the town…
On my first full day in Switzerland, we got up bright and early and did three cities in one day. The first city we went to was Bern. We walked across a bridge to get a view of the skyline. When we went to Bern, you couldn’t really see the Alps, but I got the…
I just got back from a week in Switzerland. It was a much-needed holiday after all my exams. I stayed with friends, which was also really nice. I didn’t do that much in Basel, but we did walk around the day I got there. We mostly walked around the old town on my first day….
This past weekend, Chloe and I got up to more Scottish adventures in Inverness.My first trip to Inverness was actually on my first day in Scotland, so this wasn’t my first time in Inverness. We weren’t doing the main touristy things there – we had a plan in mind. We chose this weekend because it was…