Twas the last evening of our honeycation (honeymoon + vacation)... Such a bittersweet night filled with an overwhelming amount of happy emotions. After the Montjuic e-bike tour, we came back to our Airbnb, showered and then went in search of food and beer to celebrate our time in Barcelona. It ...
Airbnb | Where We Stayed In Amsterdam & Barcelona
Whenever Charles and I talk about our past & future travels with friends and family, many of them ask, "Where did (or will) you stay?" For the past year, our answer has been = "Airbnb" which is usually followed up by the question, "What is Airbnb?" Here's my one sentence summary: A super cool ...
Fat Tire Bike Tour of Barcelona
Seeing as we had such a fun time exploring Amsterdam by bike, Charles and I knew we had to explore Barcelona in the same way! It's a great way to cover more distance while exploring a city without exerting as much energy one would if traveling by foot. A quick search on the internet ...
A Mother’s Day Surprise
This past Friday, Charles and I traveled to Chicago to surprise my Mommy Ma for Mother's Day annnnd we brought Charles's mom, Nellie, with us too! :) The plan went a little something like this = My brother, Kris, (our partner in crime) invited my mom to have lunch with him on Friday and Charles, ...
While On The Road To Paris
While on the road to Paris, we counted our blessings that the Peugeot we had reserved to drive to Clem & Jason's wedding in the countryside of France had miraculously been upgraded to an Audi convertible! Our Audi is the reason today's post is full of photos of Charles (and our friend ...
SaturDance // A Birthday Present From Me To You :)
What's the 411? It's my birthday! Your girl is turning 28 and I can't think of a better way to celebrate this day with you than to finally share the video of my dance that I re-staged on the students in the School of Dance at George Mason University. If you can recall, I had shared photos ...
I’ll Give You The Red Light Special Amsterdam
*** Officially 6 more posts to go until I'm done recapping our Euro-trip! Woot woot! Boom shaka laka! *** Following our experience at the Heineken Brewery, Charles and I went to meet up with our friend, Ali. We had met Ali for the first time at Clem and Jason's wedding in France. While mingling ...
Sometimes Being Bad Is Good… Hellooooo April!
This happens every semester as "finals season" approaches... I have a habit of going MIA on the blog which is exactly what I did last week and a great example of what might happen again during these next 5 weeks until Spring semester of grad school is officially over on May 8th. I think ...
Taking Stock
Taking a little break from all these travel & food posts with a quick real time update. :) eating// Fage greek yogurt and a banana for breakfast every morning. I've been eating this combo everyday for breakfast since January and still haven't gotten sick of it. My favorite Fage flavor? ...
The Heineken Experience
Hope you're not sick of all my 'Dam blog posts because I can't think of a better way to acknowledge St. Patrick's Day than to celebrate with a post full of beer! Heineken beer that is... Proudly produced in Amsterdam, it only made sense for Charles and I to check out Heineken's original brewery ...
Free Ferry Ride To Noord Amsterdam
Today's post is going to be a simple one... Similarly simple in nature to how we spent our 3rd evening in Amsterdam after exerting so much energy during Mike's Bike Tour around the countryside. Post-tour, Charles and I rented a pair of bikes for 24 hours and played follow the leader around the Dam. ...
Sunday @ The Travel and Adventure Show in DC
Oh, the wonderful world of travel conventions... I had my first chance to experience such a thing this past Sunday at the Travel & Adventure Show in D.C. and it was an eye-opening experience in the most educational way. As you may recall, I made a to-do list for 2015 in January ...