Monthly Recap: September

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while, but I thought I would start doing them again, because it’s nice to reflect every so often. If you want to read the last monthly recap I did, click here.Places I Went Raleigh, NCHangzhou, China Best on the Blog Best on Instagram Both of these…

Grayson Highlands State Park

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…

Switzerland: Basel

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….

Monthly Recap: March 2016

March 2016 Places I Went Cramond Island, Edinburgh – Cramond Island is a tidal island in a village just outside of Edinburgh. It used to be used by the military in WWII, so there’s a bunch of abandoned, graffitti-ed up bunkers around the island. It’s a pretty nice place to walk around. Blackford Hill, Edinburgh…

Monthly Recap: February 2016

February 2016 Places I Went Glasgow,Inveraray, Glencoe, Fort William, and Glenfinnan, ScotlandMunich, Fussen, and Dachau, GermanyPinswang, Austria Books I Read Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick OffermanAs a fan of Parks and Rec, I couldn’t not read this. Also, I’m on a spree of reading autobiographical books by my favorite comedians. I really enjoyed this…

Winter in Bavaria: Munich

I got back from Germany a week or so ago, but I am only just now getting around to writing about it. I ended up falling in love with Germany a little bit and I had a really relaxing weekend. I arrived in Munich on Valentine’s Day. I found my hostel super easily, because it…

Postcards from Europe

I’ve been interested in traveling for a long time. Long before I knew I would move to Scotland to go to university, I was desperate to travel. I wanted to go to the beautiful places we learned about in history classes. I wanted to go to the exotic places where they spoke the languages I…

Day Trip to Glenfinnan

Last weekend, I went to Glasgow to visit MK, and on Saturday we took a day trip tour to the Highlands, and here’s what we got up to. Our first stop on the trip was Inveraray. Here we got some much needed coffee and breakfast. Afterwards, we didn’t have too long to explore, but there’s…