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That Time When… I Fell on a Cactus

Apr 12, 2021
Katie
We had to hustle over to Brown's Mountain after her shift to make sure we had time to get up to the top and back before sunset. Our timing was slightly off, so it was darker than we would have liked as we made our way back down the mountain. This, combined with my knack for falling, had unfortunate results.
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How We Spent 9 Days in Europe for Under $3k

Feb 15, 2021
Katie
We didn’t want to miss out on key experiences, like eating at Marchal, a Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen, but that meant we had to be very strategic in other areas of our spending. At the end of our 9-day trip to Copenhagen and Hamburg, Tyler and I were pleasantly surprised that we had spent less than $3k total for the two of us. Here’s how we did it.
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2021 Bucket List

Jan 7, 2021
Megan
I had big plans for 2020, with one of those being to travel somewhere every month. I was on a roll until our world shut down from the coronavirus, and it was more important to stay in our homes than to experience the world around us. However, as we bring in a new year with a vaccine being distributed, I am optimistic and hopeful that 2021 will bring on some new and exciting adventures.
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What Travel in 2020 Taught Me

Jan 4, 2021
Katie
For the last few years, I’ve kept a list on my phone of all the states and countries I went to during that year, as a nice reminder of all the new places I’ve gone. I was looking at my 2020 list, and while it is far from what I’d imagined at the beginning of the year, I realized that I still learned a lot about both the places around me and travel in general. These are the travel learnings I’m taking into the new year and moving forward.
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A Look Back At 2020

Dec 31, 2020
Megan
As you have probably heard many times, 2020 was an unprecedented year. Our lives were turned upside down by the coronavirus, spending most of this year locked in our homes and away from family and friends. Travel especially was hit hard this year, and many dream vacations and trips to see loved ones were canceled with no firm rebooking timelines. However, like many people, we made lemonade out of the many lemons 2020 threw at us. Although I didn’t get my dream European cruise vacation, I was still able to make the most of my time off, traveling locally and planning trips I would have never even thought of if it wasn’t for COVID.
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That Time When… I Saw My First Snow Fall

Dec 24, 2020
Megan
It was Christmas during my junior year of high school, and I had been invited to a softball camp at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Unfortunately, three days before we were supposed to leave, the camp was canceled because of weather. With all our hotels booked, and my parents already taking off work, we decided to turn it into a vacation to the Smokey Mountains.
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That Time When… Our Train to Glasgow Didn’t Exist

Dec 21, 2020
Katie
Imagine us on Boxing Day, arriving at Waverly train station in Edinburgh to find that the train station was actually closed. We had booked our train tickets to Glasgow via Rail Europe in September, and they had provided instructions to print our train tickets at the station, so we only had the confirmation email to go off of. Queue Tyler and I frantically trying to make calls and use the nearby mall’s WiFi to figure out what had happened.