Hello! Thanks for stopping by. My name is Laura and I'm creating this blog to be a home for my passion for travel. I hope you enjoy your visit!
About this blog:
I love traveling and I thought I got myself off to a good
start, travel-wise, in my twenties. After college I moved to London and worked for six
months, saving my pub earnings to fuel a month of European backpacking after my
work visa expired. A year after that a friend and I traveled around Costa Rica
for two weeks, and I felt confident that I had cemented my favorite hobby as a
permanent life fixture.
Fast forward five+ years and I had a sad realization as
my 30th birthday approached: After those two trips, I had only been
out of the country once. That just wouldn’t do. So I made a promise to myself
that I would visit at least one foreign country a year, every year, no excuses.
That first year I didn’t have much time to save up for
travel, so I took the easy (for an American) foreign trip and headed to lovely
Canada. The following year I went to Denmark, a wee bit of Sweden, and
Greenland. In January, y’all. I’m starting this blog at 32, in the midst of
planning this year’s trip: Peru to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and
Ecuador to tour the Galapagos Islands.
I want this blog to be a repository of my adventures, but I
also want it to serve as an inspiration to others. I’ll touch on the biggest
problem of traveling—how to afford it—and (I hope) offer some helpful tips if
you want to make it a financial priority for yourself. I’ll also post about my
domestic travels, equipment and gear that I find helpful along the way, culture and vegetarian food I discover, and any little oddities that fuel my wanderlust.
But the heart of the blog is that promise I made to myself:
Once a year, every year, I’ll be off to get another stamp in the old passport.
About me:
I’m Laura and I live in Austin, Texas, with my feral cat,
Hermy, and my neurotic rescue Dane, Sam. I work as an editor and am therefore
comfortable with all those commas in the previous sentence, even though they
seem excessive. Feel free to ask me anything; I might answer it. :)
We too, are trying to write more...15 minutes a day...of the past for the future. Mainly to document for the girls and any future grandchildren. I realized, as Iain has that there are holes in our own past, because no one documented their lives. I look forward to reading about all of your adventures.
ReplyDeleteThat's such a great idea, Stacey!
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