Travel

On a whim, I accompanied one of my friends to Pennsylvania for the weekend to partake in some fall activities (since we don’t really have fall in Miami). We arrived early Saturday morning, and had to drive straight from the airport to the white water rafting company to arrive on time, 8AM check in! White […]

Day 1 – Mount Rushmore and Setting Up Camp Mount Rushmore The Black Hills trip is a continuation of my Badlands road trip. The Badlands are only ~2 hours away from the Black Hills, making it a super quick jump to a whole new terrain. We had a gap between when we had check-out of […]

Hello! I recently went on a week-long road trip with my dad through South Dakota. I have separated it into two blogs, this first is about the Badlands and the second about the Black Hills (you can find it here). Hope you enjoy! Day 1 – Setting up Camp We set out on the 11 […]

The last leg of our Europe trip was visiting some friends in Norway! It was a relaxing time and we spent half of the time with our friends and the other half in Oslo. Since it was pretty low key, we didn’t explore too many sites. With our friends, we visited a fortress in Halden […]

I had a short 2 day trip in Sweden that just so happened to coincide with National Sweden Day! Day 1 – Gamla Stan Navigating the trains We arrived in Sweden in the early morning of June 6th excited to make the most of our 2 days in Stockholm! The airport is a little ways […]

We arrived at Copenhagen’s airport and the first thing I loved was how convenient the Copenhagen metro system is! While it is expensive (as is everything here) getting the Copenhagen card saved so much time and money because you can download it directly to your phone. It also gives you free or discounted access to […]

The next stop in the whirlwind post-graduation tour around Europe was Berlin for 2 days. We arrived late in the afternoon from the train and decided to spend the evening relaxing before the first full day. We picked up some more local beers to try. Day 1 We started the morning bright and early at […]

We arrived late in the afternoon to the place we had booked in the heart of Prague. It was very central in Old Town and right next to a large shopping mall which was perfect because there was a grocery store on the bottom floor that we could get groceries from! We decided to cook […]

We set off for Las Vegas from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul international airport after our friends Jess and Lucas joined us from Wisconsin. We arrived late at night and checked in at the Flamingo hotel. It was quite cheap to stay here; we booked through Expedia so we got a discount on both our hotel and […]

A little teaser of what’s to come in a day of traveling Singapore: Chinatown Marina Sands and the Shops at Marina Sands Gardens by the Bay Cloud Forest Flower Dome Walkthrough the gardens Singapore Flyer UNESCO World Heritage Site Singapore Botanical Gardens MacRitchie Reservoir Little India Gardens by the bay Watch the incredible light show […]

It’s my last weekend in Osaka. I haven’t quite grasped that next weekend I will be in Hong Kong, and the weekend after that I will be home. This entire experience has been surreal, and I thought there would be nothing better to appreciate how lucky I have been this past semester than by spending […]

After my internship in Japan, I decided to spend 5 days traveling around Hong Kong and Singapore. I would have liked to travel all of Asia, but had to pick and choose because of time constraints. I settled on 3 days in Hong Kong, 1 day in Singapore, plus 1 day of travel time to […]

One of my coworkers yesterday asked me “what will you miss from Japan?” I gave a completely blank stare. Even though I have less than two weeks left of my internship, I had not thought about this question at all. The coworker rephrased, “what are you excited to do when you get back to America?” […]

Can you guess what I did this weekend in Kyoto? If you haven’t already pieced it together from the title, I got to finally try a kimono!! I can’t express how excited I have been for this day. I was a little nervous because I didn’t want to culturally insensitive, but the female coworker in […]

This was my most spontaneous trip during my time in Japan. I had originally planned to celebrate the week of my birthday by going to Wakayama Adventure world which has five pandas! However, as the week approached, I felt like I wanted to do something more than a day trip, and just two days before […]

I began my last day trip to Kyoto back in Arashiyama Bamboo Park. We arrived at 8 in the morning, before the tour crowds came, specifically so we could enjoy the natural beauty before the road turned into chaos. The next stop was Roikoin temple which you actually need to get tickets for in advance! […]