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A Snowbird Season in Florida
This post is a little different than my normal blog posts, but I decided to create a photo post about the fall/winter I was fortunate...
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Nov 22, 20246 min read
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Niagara Falls and Toronto
I was home from California for about a week before I set out on another adventure. I drove down to my sister's house in Virginia because...
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May 1, 20244 min read
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Exploring California
I got home from my travels in Asia in early May, and I was home for about 6 weeks before I hit the road again. I had a summer job lined...
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Apr 25, 20249 min read
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India - Part 2
On April 29th, Chloë, Peter and I woke up early for our sunrise tour and first up-close visit to the Taj Mahal. Now it’s finally time for...
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Apr 16, 20247 min read
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India - Part 1
My flight from Sydney to Delhi on April 25 was not direct; I was flying with Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong. I had a 5-hour layover in Hong...
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Mar 24, 20247 min read
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Sydney, Australia
When I was planning my trip to Australia, I knew it was going to be near the end of my travels, or even potentially the last country I...
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Jul 20, 20237 min read
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Melbourne and Cairns, Australia
My flight from Auckland to Melbourne on April 9 was direct when I booked it, but annoyingly my direct flight got canceled and they...
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Jun 30, 20235 min read
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New Zealand's South Island
As I continue writing about New Zealand, you might notice that this itinerary is pretty crammed, even for me. Since Julia was meeting me...
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Jun 19, 202311 min read
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Singapore & New Zealand's North Island
Once I was finally allowed to board my flight from Vientiane to Singapore, the flight was uneventful, thankfully. I landed around 6:30pm...
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Jun 17, 20237 min read
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Northern Thailand and Laos
My flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai landed pretty late, so I took a taxi to my hostel and immediately went to sleep. In the morning, I...
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Jun 11, 202314 min read
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Cambodia
On March 13, we left our beloved Vietnamese tour guide, Bunny, in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon and boarded our bus across the border into...
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May 31, 20239 min read
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Vietnam: Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City
I arrived in Hoi An around 7pm on March 7 and took an Uber to my hostel. I dropped my stuff and headed out to explore and to find some...
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May 24, 202310 min read
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Vietnam: Hanoi to Hue
On March 1, I arrived in Hanoi. My flight landed in the mid-afternoon and I splurged on a taxi from the airport to my hostel (because the...
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May 12, 20239 min read
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Winter in Korea
I flew from Bangkok back to Seoul on an overnight flight on New Year's Day, then immediately had a full week of school to look forward...
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Feb 26, 20234 min read
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Lunar New Year in Japan
If you've read any of my other blog posts, you might remember my multiple other attempts to get to Japan. I really hoped to go during our...
abundantlyclare
Feb 5, 202313 min read
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Christmas in Thailand
On December 24, Julia and I got to the airport around 9:30am for our flight to Bangkok that was leaving at 11:20. We boarded a little bit...
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Jan 24, 202311 min read
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Julia comes to Seoul!
On December 15, I had a hard time sleeping because I kept waking up in the night to check the progress of flight AC61 from Toronto to...
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Jan 15, 20237 min read
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Fall in Korea
As I'm guessing anyone who reads this blog already knows, I love to keep busy, but fall here in Seoul was even busier than usual. We...
abundantlyclare
Dec 11, 20228 min read
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Jeju and the DMZ with MaryBeth
On September 28, my friend MaryBeth came to visit. She landed at Incheon airport in the late afternoon, and I left school at 6 and...
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Nov 6, 202212 min read
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Summer in Seoul and a Weekend in Malaysia
I feel like I blinked and it's already mid-October. I don't know where the summer went! But somehow I fell behind on keeping my blog...
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Oct 14, 20228 min read
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The Philippines: A Week in Paradise
During my 12-month teaching contract in South Korea, I get two full weeks off as well as a long weekend for public holidays almost every...
abundantlyclare
Aug 7, 202223 min read
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Boseong and Busan
On May 28, my alarm went off at 4:45am so that I could catch the first subway at 5:30. We had booked a day trip to the southwestern...
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Jun 21, 20228 min read
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Weekend in Sokcho
My friend Josh's birthday was at the end of March, and my other friend Peter had the idea that we should treat him to a weekend away for...
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May 15, 20226 min read
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Nami Island (and more!)
Since coming to South Korea, I haven't written one of my more traditional sightseeing blog posts because I didn't really have the...
abundantlyclare
Apr 24, 20225 min read
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Moving to Seoul
Well, now that I've been in South Korea for a month, I figured it's time to update my blog! For my first post about Korea, I'm doing an...
abundantlyclare
Mar 14, 20229 min read
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Family Trip to California
At Christmas in 2019, my dad surprised my mom with a trip to California that was a combination Christmas/60th birthday gift. I had done...
abundantlyclare
Feb 3, 202215 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma
On July 28, we crossed from Arizona into New Mexico, headed for Albuquerque. We had a dinner of traditional New Mexican food at Monroe's,...
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Jan 25, 202210 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: Arizona
We got up early on July 25 to pack up our campsite in St. George, UT and cross the border into Arizona. We drove the two and a half hours...
abundantlyclare
Nov 30, 20217 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: Utah
On July 21, our first order of business for our full day in Salt Lake City was joining a city tour, which left from a hotel downtown just...
abundantlyclare
Nov 18, 202110 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: Idaho and Montana
On July 15, we drove away from our last overlook in Grand Tetons National Park and, after a quick Starbucks break in Jackson, we made our...
abundantlyclare
Nov 3, 202111 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming
On July 10, we left Colorado for South Dakota via Nebraska. We made a quick pit stop along the way for a very important photo. Had to get...
abundantlyclare
Oct 22, 202111 min read
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The Great American Road Trip: Kansas & Colorado
Most of my life since Covid struck has been defined by my attempt to get to China to teach English. I had plans to make the leap in May...
abundantlyclare
Oct 4, 20210 min read
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Sister Trip '21: Part Two
I left off Part One of this post on March 30 in Birmingham. On March 31, we had brunch at a French restaurant in downtown Birmingham, and...
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Sep 23, 20210 min read
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Sister Trip '21: Part One
My favorite travel buddy is my sister, and if I'm not traveling alone, the person traveling with me is Jule for the heaping majority of...
abundantlyclare
May 26, 20219 min read
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Hallstatt, Munich, Neuschwanstein
On March 7, I was spending half of my second day in Salzburg by traveling to Hallstatt, a picturesque lakeside village a short trip from...
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Nov 24, 202016 min read
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Vienna, Bratislava, and Salzburg
When I initially started looking at flights from Cape Town back to Newark, the cheapest one had a 20 hour layover in Vienna. 20 hours...
abundantlyclare
Nov 9, 202011 min read
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South Africa
On February 29, Leap Day, we went over the Orange River and crossed the border from Namibia into South Africa. Writing this so many...
abundantlyclare
Oct 27, 20209 min read
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Namibia
This post about Namibia will definitely be one of the most unique, because although Namibia was probably my favorite country that I...
abundantlyclare
Aug 8, 20209 min read
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Botswana
On Thursday, February 13, those of us continuing into Cape Town and/or Namibia repacked Songwe, our truck that had broken down. In the...
abundantlyclare
May 27, 20205 min read
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Zambia & Zimbabwe
On Friday, February 7, we left Malawi for Zambia. We left early in the morning because we had a long drive ahead of us (about 10 hours,...
abundantlyclare
May 20, 20208 min read
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Malawi
We left Iringa, our last stop in Tanzania, early in the morning on February 3 to cross the border into Malawi. We got through the border...
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May 12, 20208 min read
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Tanzania
I realized looking at my last blog post that I might not have provided enough context regarding the camping aspect of our trip, and...
abundantlyclare
May 7, 202013 min read
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Kenya
On January 16, I woke up very excited to go to the airport. I was flying to Nairobi from the Newark Liberty International Airport, and my...
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Apr 27, 20207 min read
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Hamburg, Amsterdam, & Bruges
On the morning of June 11, we woke up at our campsite in Copenhagen, packed up all of the tents and bags, and after a quick breakfast, we...
abundantlyclare
Oct 12, 20169 min read
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Berlin & Copenhagen
When I left off my last blog post (Two months ago! I'm so sorry, I've been quite busy. I just moved into a new apartment!), we had just...
abundantlyclare
Aug 28, 20167 min read
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Krakow & Prague
On June 3, we packed up the campsite in Budapest and left for Krakow, Poland. I was really excited about going to Poland because I know a...
abundantlyclare
Jul 2, 20165 min read
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My Last Week in Spain and Exploring Budapest
After a very long hiatus, I’m back to tell you about my last hurrah of a trip. It was seven different cities, and you all know how much I...
abundantlyclare
Jun 25, 201611 min read
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The Last Getaway for Quintanareñas
In school last week, I went to my usual classes in the high school, helping mostly with speaking exams or correcting pronunciation. At...
abundantlyclare
May 24, 20165 min read
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Erin and Clare Go to Portugal
I left off with my last blog during the first week of May. I don't have anything blog-worthy to share about my time at school, but I had...
abundantlyclare
May 17, 201611 min read
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I Finally Went to the Beach...in a Swimsuit!
The beginning of the last week of April was uneventful. I went to most of my classes in the high school, but I can never get through a...
abundantlyclare
May 3, 201611 min read
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