Inspiration

Quitting is the Easy Part

Quitting is the Easy Part Today is my last day of work. Tomorrow I will officially be unemployed What a feeling. Or rather, more accurately, what a plethora of feelings. Relief, joy, sadness, confusion, happiness, peace, trepidation, overwhelmed, anxious, ecstatic. I don’t know which emotion to feel first or which takes up more space in my heart and brain at...

My Incompleted 2019 NYC Summer Bucket List Review​

My Incompleted 2019 NYC Summer Bucket List Review Summer 2019 was definitely one for the books. I can’t remember a period of my life that has been more of a roller coaster and I was living for every second of it. I traveled to 4 cities and 1 new country, but my favorite part about this summer was how much time I spent exploring my own city.  Earlier this summer...

Reclaiming Memories

Reclaiming Memories At some point this moment will become a memory. Most of the seconds in your life will blur into a general space, where you can’t really tell time apart. But then there are the pieces that stay with you and become an entirely different kind of memory, the kind that lasts forever.Sometimes they’re the big, magical kind. Like when a...

Reintroducing Me to Me

Reintroducing Me to Me **I’ve debated writing this post for a while now. I do want my blog to be a source of inspiration and joy for others.  I also want to be someone people trust (for all their travel needs) and if I portrayed myself as this happy, free spirited person 1000% of the time, 365 days a year, I would be a fraud. So here’s a tiny, honest...

Summer is Essential

Summer is Essential Summer is hereeee and I couldn’t be more ecstatic! Sunshine just makes my heart happy. Lots of people go away for summer but to me it’s the perfect time to stay and explore your own city and surrounding areas. I already wrote about what’s on my summer bucket list (if you haven’t checked it out and you’re in the city...

My 2019 NYC Summer Bucket List

My 2019 NYC Summer Bucket List If you’ve read any of my posts (or talked to me ever), you know that NYC is my favorite place in the world and I will argue that point with anyone, ha. But NYC in the summer really is something extra special. The city’s workforce is buzzing with excitement about summer Fridays, the rooftops are filled with delicious...

Travel Means Exploring My Own Backyard

Travel Means: "Exploring My Own Backyard" At our year end celebration last year my company asked its employees about some of our greatest travel adventures, our favorite destinations, our coolest pictures but the most thought provoking question they asked was “What does travel mean to you?“.  I work in travel. I write about my travels. I spend all my...

Living Outside The 9 to 5

LIVING OUTSIDE THE 9 TO 5 It’s Wednesday at 10am. On my second cup of coffee, I’m looking out the window at work and the streets of New York are bustling with life. Life is happening.  Some days I wish that could be me, free to explore the world at any hour without any cares or responsibilities.But that’s not who I am and not how I was raised...