Namastay Traveling

Driving Route One through California has been on my bucket list since, well, I’ve had a bucket list. As a lifelong east coaster who quickly fell in love with the west coast, I wanted to make sure I experienced the state outside of the tourist […]

Hi Sweet Internet Friends! It has been a hot minute, hasn’t it? After keeping up my goal of creating new content every week for a year, life started to get a little busy. Well, not just a little busy, but perhaps a major-life-event-at-every-turn kind of […]

Since this was considered one of my *bigger* birthdays, I knew I wanted to spend my 30th doing something I loved…something that would set the tone for the rest of this year. Since I lucked out having my birthday fall on a Friday, I could […]

As soon as we booked our trip to Las Vegas, I started researching surrounding parks for an excursion. I quickly realized that I don’t think I’ve ever actually stepped foot in a desert before, so this would all be new territory for me (literally..). After […]

When I realized that Portugal was known for their surfing, in particular, known for the largest wave surfed ever, I knew I had to jump on the bandwagon…err, board. Ever since I was little, I’ve been drawn to the ocean and was eager to try […]

*This post may include affiliate links. The power of literature goes unmatched. The ability to transport you to an entirely different world as an entirely different person is simply magical. So much so, I spend my day job teaching little minds to love books and […]

If you haven’t checked out our first Portugal stop in Lisbon, click here! You know when you’re scrolling through Pinterest and one of those gorgeous paradise beach pictures shows up of somewhere that couldn’t possibly be real? That pretty much sums up the Algarve Coast. […]

If you’ve been keeping up with my recent instagram stories about Lisbon, you probably already know that Portugal was a last resort destination idea for our annual spring break excursion. Dan and I were in search of some warm weather, or at least a degree […]

Turning 30 honestly feels like a birthday that would never come. Not so much in the morbid sense, but in the how-do-I-make-a-dentist-appointment, what-even-is-a-mortgage and do-I-hide-the-alcohol-from-my-parents sense. All these big kid jobs I was so eager to have in my teens are now neatly laid out […]

Surprise! Dropping in on you all on a Tuesday! I had planned to take the past couple of weeks off as I slowly adjust back to this timezone but it occurred to me on the flight back from Portugal that my blogiversary was creeping up […]