Travel Log

Childhood family trips (hopefully I don’t forget any)

  • Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
  • Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
  • Great Smoky Mountains
  • Seattle, Washington, Northern Idaho and Glacier National Park
  • Las Vegas, Grand Canyon National Park, Carlsbad Caverns and Tombstone, Arizona
  • Myrtle Beach
  • New Orleans
  • Florida Keys and Everglades National Park
  • Washington D.C.
  • Disney World and Cape Canaveral, Florida
  • And plenty of camping trips around Ohio…

Travels after becoming an adult, of which I have a more concrete memory 🙂 

2011

  • March- Steamboat Springs, Colorado with my then boyfriend (who now happens to be my husband)
  • May/June-Study abroad in Florence, with day trips to Rome, Venice, Tuscany, the Cinque Terre and Parma, Italy- I credit this trip with jump starting my passion to travel the world.
  • July- Mackinac Island, Michigan
  • August- Tampa, Florida for a family wedding

2012

  • January- New York City
  • June- London, Guernsey, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Brussels, Belgium- the first of many trips I would plan on my own
  • August- Seattle, Washington and Northern Idaho to visit family
  • December- Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego, California (with an engagement on Point Mugu Beach)

2013– a little weak on the travel front due to me being in grad school and my husband being in medical school

  • March- Washington, D.C

2014– now officially married and a working adult!

  • June/July- Honeymoon to the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver and Alaska via a cruise through the Inside Passage

2015

  • July- Nashville, Tennessee- a husband still in medical school and a new job can really limit the time/money available to travel

2016

  • May/June- Dream trip warning! Mediterranean cruise to Italy, Greece and Turkey with pre-cruise travels to Rome, Florence and the Cinque Terre
  • September- San Francisco, Napa/Sonoma Valley and Yosemite National Park

2017

  • February/March- Steamboat Springs and Denver, Colorado
  • May- Lima, Cusco, and Machu Picchu, Peru
  • June- Myrtle Beach for a wedding
  • June- Sleeping Bear Dunes and Traverse City, Michigan
  • July- Milwaukee, Door County, Wisconsin and Starved Rock State Park, Illinois
  • September- Canadian Rockies (Banff, Jasper and Yoho National Parks)
  • October- Savannah, Georgia
  • October- Nashville, Tennessee for a wedding
  • December- back to Guernsey for a wedding

2018

  • January- Iceland (took advantage of a free stopover on Icelandair)
  • April- Red River Gorge, Kentucky
  • April- Waco, Austin and San Antonio Texas
  • May- Bryce Canyon, Zion, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Arches and Grand Canyon National Parks, Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon, Arizona
  • August- Switzerland
  • October- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • November- Everglades, Key Biscayne and Dry Tortugas National Parks and Key West, Florida

2019

  • January- Buenos Aires, Santiago and Patagonia
  • March- Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark
  • May- Monterey Peninsula, California
  • June- Croatia
  • September/October- Cape Town and Madikwe, South Africa