Last year, my family and I headed back to New York to visit places and friends we had left behind two years earlier when we relocated to Honolulu. We also were excited to enjoy the colder weather that the east coast could provide. Instead, a heatwave left us sweltering in nearly 100-degree weather. We ended up […]
In 1999 I started college and made a friend who would entertain me with stories of his family’s winter ski vacation antics in Whistler. Fast forward ten years later and in December 2009 I had been married to this same friend (oh hi Bryan!) for three years and was about to embark on the same […]
For a summary of my trip to Sydney and details of our time near the CBD, see my earlier post. Day 4 Day 4 in Sydney started with us leaving the CBD and the Four Seasons and moving to the Radisson Hotel and Suites at Darling Harbour. After relocating it was time to head out […]
My mom presented me with the most amazing offer in December 2016, go to Sydney with her and she would use her United miles to fly Emily and me (as well as my sister) to Sydney in first class (hello, flat bed seats). Done! The Itinerary Using United Miles fly first class from Honolulu to […]
On July 1, 2010 I was sitting at home in Connecticut and wishing I had made plans to travel to someplace new for the fourth of July holiday, when I thought ‘well, why not?’ With that I started planning to visit Block Island, a quaint island off the coast of Rhode Island that was only […]
Celebrating the big 3-0 in Ireland: click here for the full itinerary. When I turned 30 I decided to celebrate by travelling across Ireland, including through Killarney National Park, County Cork (including Blarney Castle and Fota), Glendalough National Park, and Powerscourt Estates. Day 8 – Killarney to Kenmare We had stayed at Earls Court House […]
Click here for our full itinerary for Ireland and our days in Dublin. When I turned 30 I decided to celebrate by travelling across Ireland. We trekked through County Galway (including Kylemore Abbey), County Clare (including the Cliffs of Moher and the Bunratty Castle and Folk Park) and County Kerry (including the Dingle Peninsula). Day […]
Celebrating the big 3-0 in Ireland: click here for the full itinerary. When I turned 30 I decided to celebrate by travelling across Ireland, including through County Meath, County Sligo and County Mayo. Our beloved blue Skoda “What did you do to piss them off? Were you being a bit too cheeky when you made […]
The Details Day 1 – Dublin Back in 2011, we lived 45 minutes outside of JFK international airport in NYC. Therefore, our amazing trip to Ireland started with an easy nonstop red-eye flight on Aer Lingus into Dublin. Once we landed, we made our way to our hotel in the Temple Bar district, dropped off […]
Back in September, 2011 I decided to celebrate the big 3-0 in style, by spending 11-days driving around Ireland with the husband. For the last 7 years we’ve often referenced that Ireland trip as one of the best trips we’ve ever taken and in looking back now at one of those personalized photo books I […]
