Introduction
I’ve been meaning to start a travel blog for ages, but, you know (life, work, too busy, sleepy, etc.). But I love traveling, and I love planning trips almost as much as I love taking them, and with no big journeys on the horizon for the next year or so, now seemed like a good time to direct my travel energy in this direction. A little bit of background on me: I’m a lifelong Washingtonian, but I’ve wanted to see the world since I was small. Being from a family of homebodies, most of my childhood trips involved camping in-state, and I was 13 the first time I flew anywhere (Salt Lake City, for a school choir trip). My next trip was when at 19, when I flew by to England by myself to meet up with my friend Amanda, who was doing a work study in the north of England. We traveled to London where we spent a few days, and then Amanda went back to work and I went on to Spain by myself, which was a real eye opener. In ten days I traveled to six cities all over the country, so the end result ...