I. Love. Airports. 3:00 am seemed to be the time my family always woke up for flights, ever since I can remember. Apparently we liked getting to our destinations real early. I can picture 7 year old me all jittery with anticipation before the sun even rose, while all the people around me looked like …
How Do You Define Travel?
No Single Definition of Travel Experiencing a new culture, participating in a service project, laying by the beach, and exploring a new city… All of these are greatly differing experiences that can fall under the category of “travel”. To people around the world, the word “travel” can take on a wide variety of meanings. A …
Cheers to Road-tripping the Canadian Rockies
Taking Banff out of the Idea Vault “Cheers to not knowing where we’re going!” was my dad’s first salute to adventure as we headed out on a 12 hour road-trip from Southern Washington to the Canadian Rocky mountains. Other than Banff and our 3 nights of campground stays, everything else was purposely unplanned. No campsites …
The Perfectionist Mindset of a Dreamer
Reality of Being a Perfectionist & Dreamer “When I grow up I am going to be a veterinarian/hotel owner and I am going to become very rich so I can own lots of pets and travel the world!” I enthusiastically insisted at age 4. My childhood certainly does not fall short of stories that exemplify …