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Siblings See Spain and SB’14
I could barely hold in my excitement as my brother opened his 18th birthday card. I was surprising him with a trip to Spain for Spring Break with the student group I was leading. It was a chance for...
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A Winter Escape in Reims, France
While it was certainly difficult to turn down spending Valentine’s Weekend in Paris, reaching towards a new French destination proved to be the right choice. Reims, capital of the Champagne region in...
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A Glimpse of Morocco
It was an opportunity to step onto another continent, and while that interested me immensely, winding along Costa del Sol in a tourist bus with 42 students, I couldn’t help but battle a bought of...
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The Final Kilometers of the Camino
It’s hard to believe that exactly a year has passed since I finished the Camino de Santiago and it has taken me that long to recap that anticipated moment of arrival. I’ve been lucky enough to be able...
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My Biggest Move Yet
Although it has been official for a while now, the moment has come to make it blog official— I’m moving to Madrid, Spain! I’ve been dreaming this dream since I returned from studying abroad in Sevilla...
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Scenes Along the Seine
It’s already June, school is out for the summer and I have the chance to go to work with my mom—to Paris. She has a deadhead to the City of Light, meaning she isn’t scheduled to work the flight back...
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French Gratitude in Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
Shortly after my grandfather, a World War II veteran’s passing over a year ago, I heard my mother first express her interest to visit Normandy. The French shores where my grandfather met war in 1944...
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Remembering Grandpa at Omaha Beach
Simply said, Normandy will forever be a part of my top 5 travel experiences. There, the impact of D-Day revealed itself not in textbook pages and movie dialogue, but through a live scene of reverence...
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Reflections of Pointe du Hoc and the American Cemetery
The morning of D-Day we set off knowing we were bound to have trouble getting around. With Obama and the Queen in town, the area was under tight security. Just the day prior we had learned that a...
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USA Farewell Tour and Standby to Spain
What a summer it has been. It has been full of family and friends that span my lifetime; elementary school, high school, college, post college, and even the Camino. I went as far east as France and...
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Some Things I Love About San Sebastián
I have been in Spain over a month now and I’m just starting to process everything I have done. Setting up a new life in Madrid has just been a sliver of the adventure. There has also been rich and...
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Peace in Biarritz, France
It’s easy to miss San Sebastián and the ease of spending the day in both Spain and the south of France. We made the short journey to Biarritz a handful of times and each trip, I seemed to lose all...
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More Basque Beach Towns: Zarautz and Getaria
About 15 minutes up the coast from San Sebastián is the coastal town of Zarautz (also the starting point of my Camino del Norte). Known for great surfing, the town swells with tourists during the...
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Charming France and Spain in a Day
I am a sucker for the quaint and cute and so I think I was born to love Europe. The charm of País Vasco has started to subdue my Sevillle obsession. The Basque Country is just that amazing. Whether...
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Challenging Myself on the Camino del Norte
There was a swell of emotion in me as I prepared to move to Spain and it certainly followed me all the way back to the Camino de Santiago. This Camino was an extreme mental and physical challenge for...
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Letting the Rain Fall in Lekeitio
I had read about the town of Lekeitio on the blogosphere and was anxious to visit another quaint coastal Basque town. It’s location between big travel hubs, Bilbao and San Sebastián, make Lekeito an...
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France Beckons Once More: Bordeaux
Champagne, Paris, Normandy, French Basque Country, and now Bordeaux; at the start of the year, I never imagined that France would reign supreme in my travels. And as I have done with all the French...
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Where the Oysters and Dunes Are
I shouldn’t be surprised by how quickly I developed a taste for oysters. It wasn’t hard to achieve considering I was seated overlooking the water from which they came. Paired with a sweet white wine,...
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Perfect Days in Pasajes de San Juan
I love that this year I not only get to know Madrid, but San Sebastián and special spots in País Vasco as well. Pasajes de San Juan is one of those Basque towns I was instantly enamored by and even...
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Life Begins in Madrid
It is 6:30 on a Thursday evening and I’m sauntering home amid steamy December temperatures (to Ohio standards) after an afternoon filled with food, wine, and plaza sitting. One of my favorite things...
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