Get ready to be utterly charmed by Lovund, Norway one of many islands you must visit along the Helgeland coast. Fun fact about me: sometimes I arrive at a new destination, and I immediately put it on my mental list of “places I’d like to write a novel at.” Another fun fact about me: my…
Ready to visit one of the most popular places in the world at one of the most popular times to go? Whelp, after five visits myself, here’s my list of all the best things to do in NYC at Christmas! Plus I’ve added some quick tips on visiting NYC in December! One my most recent…
As you guys know I made the somewhat smart, somewhat foolish choice to visit Niagara Falls in the winter this last year. And while I definitely want to go in warm weather next time I visit, I do think it’s totally worth going in the snowiest, coldest season of the year, and here’s why! Yep,…
Happy January! Yup, it’s very cold in Pennsylvania. Right now as I write this, there’s some crazy cold front spreading around the north, and I hate it with everyone shivering bone in my body. Anyway, January has been a relatively calm month. I had one big trip with Niagara Falls, which I was really scared…
Oh howdy from Taipei! I’m writing this from my Airbnb while it rains like crazy outside (and finishing it on Valentine’s Day *cough*). I’ve just been in Hualien and Jiufen for the last week, so I haven’t been nearly as active as I thought I could be in terms of writing and doing a lot…
Here’s what to expect hiking between two mountain temples, Seonamsa and Songgwangsa, on Jogyesan, near Suncheon. Spoiler alert: Like most of my hiking in Korea, I was a bit unprepared… One of the more underrated things to do in Suncheon is to visit one of its two main mountain temples, Seonamsa or Songwangsa, and go…