Exploring Oxford For A Few Days

Exploring Oxford: We wandered around The Eagle and Child pub, stopped by the Ashmolean Museum and the Tolkien exhibit at the Weston Library.

Day Trip To York

A Day Trip to York

I found a slice of pizza in York that was bigger than my face. Definitely a highlight.

How To Cope With Long Distance Friendships

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The truth about coping with long distance friendships: So you’ve done it. You’ve graduated college. And now you have to face the fact that you and your best friends can no longer be joined at the hip for every second of every day anymore.  It’s a truly tragic concept that you’ve spent the past three […]

When Location Isn’t Everything

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That concept of who I could be was appealing, and I soaked it in every time. I crossed oceans, ate different foods, took weekend trips to Italy, and stood in skyscrapers in London.
Now that they don’t readily apply anymore, it feels kind of strange, because I think I let myself believe that it was all of those things that made me special or interesting.

In A Photograph

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Stunned speechless and grateful beyond words. Here are some photos from last week!

Day Two in Verona: Welcome to Torri

Welome to our second day in Verona! (In case you missed it, here is the post about our first day in Verona.) Torri Del Benaco The view of Torri from our hotel was absolutely stunning. We spent the first part of the morning taking as many photos as we could think of before going down […]

5 Great Things About Flying Home From England to the US

Throw in a bit of deadline stress and it’s a big whirlwind of: “I’d just really like to be home right now, right this second, with everything that needs to happen between now and then just perfectly sorted out.”