Thursday, January 28, 2016

Bienvenidos a Costa Rica: The Journey Begins in San Jose

My trip has begun! I've been in Costa Rica for 5 days now, and so far so good. After a slightly delayed but otherwise relatively uneventful flight, I arrived in San Jose. My Couchsurfing host, Oswaldo, picked me up from the airport and brought me to his house, where I met his wife, Andrea, and their two adorable little dogs (one of them ended up sleeping in my bed with me several of the nights I was there. Such a sweetie!). Oswaldo and Andrea were great hosts and invited me to spend time with them and their friends, as well as taking me out to dinner a couple of times. My first full day there they took me on a day trip outside the city, which was great because we went to places I wouldn't have known about as just a regular tourist.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Christmastime in Germany

Even though I'm busy preparing for my trip to Costa Rica, I want to take a minute to update you all on my most recent trip, which was to visit my sister, Danielle, in Germany in December. I spent two weeks there, and we went to Berlin, Hildesheim (where my sister goes to grad school), and Hamburg (where my sister's boyfriend, Maxim, lives). We saw and did a lot of different things, so I will try to be brief and just mention the highlights.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Welcome to my new and improved blog

Hello everyone, and welcome back to those who are past readers! As many of you know, for the past several years I have been living and traveling in many different places, and so far I have had a blog for each of my adventures. However, I've come to realize that if I continue in that pattern, I will end up with so many blogs that I won't know what to do with them all. So to avoid that, I have decided to re-vamp this blog in which I wrote about my trip to Europe last fall/winter and make it my primary one. My goal is to provide access here to all of my past blogs and use solely this one for new posts in the future, wherever my life and travels take me.