When I was six months pregnant, my husband and I decided to sneak in one last adventure before our baby boy arrived. As you know, we’re definitely not all-inclusive or sunshine and beach type travelers, so as relaxing as lying on the beach and reading a book sounded, we knew we would’ve been bored. What … More Exploring the Best of Portugal: From Porto to Lisbon
It’s a new decade! Some people go sky diving, bungee jumping or go on a safari tour, I’m going to take it easy this weekend with some friends and a whole lot of food. I can’t seem to recall how I celebrated my 20th but do remember how I celebrated my 19th; with these crazy folks … More The Roadtrip Girl on turning…3-0
Making decisions is hard, not making one, now, feels even harder. It feels like all my life, everything just came together, things fell in my lap and I was happy with all those things. And even if I wasn’t completely satisfied, I tried to be positive about them and that made me happy, or happy … More Drift
2016 was yet another amazing year full of wonderful travels. As per last year, and years before, 2016 began in sunny San Diego. We hiked the mountains and shopped the malls. We were also invited by Lego to visit the Legoland theme park! March 2016 took us to Hong Kong once again to visit family. … More My 2016: a year in travel photos
The year started off with us returning from our trip to San Francisco and San Diego. After coming back, I went on a short work trip in April to Montreal, QC and devoured a delicious brick oven pizza that I’ll return for! The following month we stepped foot in Europe for the first time! I … More My 2015: a year in travel photos
My family (my parents, sister, bf and 2 dogs) try to take a vacation together each year. While we live 5 minutes away from each other and see each other on weekends, it’s still nice spend family time outside of running errands together. There’s been years we’ve gone on more elaborate trips but it’s not … More Reasons why you need to try the Canadian cottage life
Dear High Schooler, Remember that summer you spent at home, occasionally going out with friends and worked a minimum wage, part-time retail job that you took too seriously? Remember that chance you had to spend by the beach in San Diego or somewhere much hotter…but didn’t because you had “work”? Well there’s 40+ years of … More Lost summer nights
Hong Kong has always been my second home. Well, it was really my first home. Born in Hong Kong, my family immigrated to Toronto when I was 4 years old but the sights, sounds and love for Hong Kong remained with me. After my first year in university and savings from my first part time … More The Roadtrip Girl’s choice for top attractions in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has always been my second home. Well, it was really my first home. Born in Hong Kong, my family immigrated to Toronto when I was 4 years old, but the sights, sounds and love I have for Hong Kong remains. After my first year in university and savings from my first part time … More Top attractions in Hong Kong
Last year I wrote a blog post on “Work-Life Balance: Traveling the World One Step at a Time” explaining why you don’t need to quit your 9-5 just to fulfill your desire to travel. Perhaps I wrote the blog to convince myself that I’m doing the right thing. For me, I don’t live pay check-to-pay … More Travel: I think I’m having a quarter life crisis.
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