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As a self-proclaimed Halloween aficionado, I felt it was my responsibility to write this post. Halloween is my second favorite holiday (after Christmas, of course). I trick-or-treated until a ridiculous age because who doesn’t love dressing up and getting free candy? Not to mention with things like haunted houses, scary movies, and the Monster Mash, …
This past week marked my three month anniversary at my first job. I graduated in May and started working full-time in June. It’s crazy how time flies. These past few months have definitely been the biggest transition of my life. For your whole life, you know that September brings the start of school and June …
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Happy Birthday Blog! I can’t believe You Had Me At Solo is turning one. I just renewed my domain and had a flash back to how hard it was for me to come up with a name for everything. I was so excited to get started and then I couldn’t get past the first step. …
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I recently stumbled across this thing called a “reverse bucket list” and as someone who is obsessed with making lists, I immediately had to look into it. Basically, it’s the opposite of a bucket list; it’s a list of everything you’ve accomplished so far. I’ve been really into gratitude and nostalgia recently as my last …
I think so many times traveling gets shoehorned into the definition of some out of reach construct that takes a colossal amount of time and money and can only be achieved by going to some far off destination. Even Oxford Dictionary defines travel as going from one place to another, typically over a large distance. …
With the holidays coming up, I thought I would create a list of the best gifts for travel lovers (whether you buy them for yourself or others 😉). This year has been hard for traveling but there are still ways to celebrate the joy of traveling. I love giving gifts and seeing the reactions of …
I am a big believer that literature informs travel and vice versa. In The Writing Life Annie Dillard asks, “why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our …
Everyone knows traveling can be exhausting. There’s nothing like a pick me up playlist to lift your spirits. In fact, in my last post I named a good playlist as one of the top 5 most essential things to have with you while traveling. I have three go-to playlists depending on what kind of traveling …
When traveling alone packing becomes Priority #1 because if you forget it, there’s no one to fall back on. You could Google the basic travel essentials until the end of time so here are five “off the beaten path” items every solo traveler needs. Tripod – for pictures to show everyone when you get home. …
*disclaimer please make sure to do research on area specific COVID-19 policies before traveling I just got back from hiking Acadia National Park and I’m probably not the first to tell you, it is a beautiful work of nature. I took a day trip up from southern Maine and hiked Bubble Rock, Jordan Pond and …
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