It’s been a couple of years since I really blogged. Why? Well for starters, because of the pandemic. I’m a bit of a hypochondriac (not clinically diagnosed) so the thought of traveling while people were still spreading COVID made me nervous. I spent the better part of 2021 trying to acclimate myself to a job that came to an end in August 2022, so that put another fork in my plans. I’ve put together so many itineraries in the last two years. Itineraries mostly to cities I’ve missed in Western ... VIEW POST

Before I went to Portugal in March 2020, I made a list of all the things I wanted to see while I was there - as I usually do. One of the places that I wanted to visit was Belem while I was in the city of Lisbon. I decided I’d go there because it was listed as something everyone does on all the websites I found while researching prior to my trip. Unfortunately, I hate to tell you, I thought Belem was incredibly overrated and here's why. When I read about Belem, a district of Lisbon, I thought ... VIEW POST

I spent most of February 2020 reading about this new novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19, while panicking about my upcoming trip to Portugal. I’d booked my flight several months earlier and I was really excited to get to explore the country to which I’d been putting off a trip for years (a better place just always came up and took precedence). Everyone assured me that I would be fine, though this didn’t stop me from bringing a thermometer with me in my backpack. After hopping off the plane in ... VIEW POST