stories of a traveling wilderwoman
Three years ago, on March 19, 2020 we landed in Christchurch, New Zealand with a year long visa – planning to sit it out until “covid blew over.” We landed with 22 hours to spare, and they closed the border right behind us. Our two week traveler’s quarantine was extended by four more weeks of…
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The day after our wedding, Oli, Archie, Abigail, and myself all left on our roadtrip to Yellowstone National Park. Looking back, we may have been better off giving ourselves a day between the wedding and our trip, but we made it work! We only had 5 days to get there and explore and we didn’t…
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Since I started snowboarding in 2004, I knew I wanted a snowboarding bachelorette. For a very long time I never wanted to get married, but I always wanted a bachelorette. Luckily I found a man who changed my mind on the whole marriage thing and who happens to love snow as much as I do…
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New Orleans is one my absolute favorite places I have visited, and I have been a lot of places! We didn’t realize but we ended up in town just a few weeks after Hurricane Ida had rolled through, which for those who were unaware like us, was the second largest and second most destructive hurricane…
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We had picked the busiest time to go to Hawaii. I didn’t realize that they had just re-opened their doors to the mainland when we booked our trip, which meant it was pretty hard to get anything booked because everything was full. Somehow we managed to have a full trip, and I found out that…
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The world is open again. Or at least it’s beginning to open again. After 18 months away, I finally got to give my dad and step mom a hug. If you know how close my dad and I are, then you’d know this was a very big deal. As serendipity would have it, our homecoming…
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17 months. 519 days. 747,300 minutes. 44,838,000 seconds. 8 Countries. England. Scotland. Spain. France. Italy. Japan. Vietnam. New Zealand.1 Disease. 1 Pandemic. 1 Worldwide Lockdown. That’s how long it had been since I had seen my best friend in the flesh. My best friend married an aussie guy in Thailand back in 2019, and since…
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Wandering Wild 