After enjoying another plate of delicious Lomo Saltado, a traditional Peruvian dish, for breakfast we booked ourselves a three hour tour of the city on a double decker bus. I think the last time I went on one of those was 10 years ago in Hong Kong. […]
Happy Amazing Birthday to my Saweet!!! I can’t imagine what life would be like without him. He has supported me through so much and somehow managed to put up with my quarter life crisis, female emotions and teenage dramas for the past 7 years. Kees, I fall in […]
We were only on day two of our trip when I started receiving the “how am I going to survive with this chatterbox for 6 weeks?” face from poor Kees. The thing is, I tend to talk more than the average person, but when I’m happy I’m even […]
PERU and BOLIVIA!!!!! This time it wasn’t NEARLY as difficult as it was when you had to guess Cape Verde, as my 100th country. The WINNERS of the signed paperbacks were Margriet Smit from Holland who guessed Peru first and Holly from U.K. who guessed BOTH Peru and […]
Does anyone remember me mentioning that I had the most amazing sister in the world?? Well…. that was BEFORE she surprised me with this. Can’t quite decide now if she’s amazing or crazy. Let’s not let her light herself on fire for nothing. I have to agree with […]
Mom and I went down to Lloret de Mar, Spain to attend the Travel Blog Exchange (#TBEX) with zero expectations, thus leaving no room for disappointed. That wasn’t necessary because it was a blast. #TBEX blew us both away with how well they took care of hundreds of […]
TODAY is our 10 year anniversary of a life changing event. Mom, Ammon, Bree and I took off on an adventure that lasted four years and took us through 80 countries as a family, changing all of our lives forever. It’s incredible to look back and see how […]
Yesterday Mom and I took off on our road trip down to Spain for “The Travel Blog Exchange” aka #TBEX, the world’s leading conference for Travel Bloggers. Somehow we turned a few day blogging conference in Spain into a wonderful road trip itinerary where #TBEX is just one […]
As promised, this post is dedicated to Shane Dallas (or more commonly known as @thetravelcamel) my fellow founder of #TRLT, our weekly Twitter travel chat which stands for The Road Less Travelled. Shane is a professional public speaker, traveller and photographer. His photography was what stood out to […]
Yippeee!!! Just got my 75th review for Vol. 2 “Backpacks and Bra Straps” on amazon.com! If you’ve read and loved it too, please take the time to leave your review for baby #2 http://www.amazon.com/Sihpromatum-Backp…/…/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1… If you don’t have amazon, goodreads always works too! 🙂 And lastly, if […]
We left Alkmaar around 9:00 am right as a nationwide power outage hit. “That’s strange” I thought as Kees yelled from the shower, “why did the light just go out!?” When Mom came over, ready to be the chauffeur for the day, we quickly learned that her house […]
You may find it a bit ironic that as an author of two books, I have never been part of or attended a SINGLE book club. I don’t know why, but for some reason the opportunity never presented itself until my dear friend Jessica, who is also a […]
NORTH &CENTRAL AMERICA ANTIQUA & BARBUDA *BAHAMAS *BELIZE *BARBADOS CANADA *COSTA RICA […]
Countries with * are ones that I have not been to yet but one or more of the family has. AFGHANISTAN ARMENIA […]
*Are countries that i have not yet been to but one or more of my family has. ANGOLA BENIN […]
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