We just returned from a week-long trip to California, so thought I’d share my trip report. Over the past few years, I’ve gotten tons of great advice from locals, but have often found that traveler’s experiences are one of the best references since they often see things from a slightly different slant. Hopefully my experience […]
In the winter of 2007, my sister (Cindy) and I had the bright idea to go on a vacation together. We were sick of the winter blues and decided that the following December we would get away to somewhere tropical and fun. The problem with this idea is that Cindy and I have very different
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The summer before my senior year of college, I was going stir crazy with a huge desire to go abroad. I had just determined I would be able to graduate a semester early, meaning that I would not have a final Spring Break (there went my Costa Rica plans). I had a chunk of money
As a college freshman, I was excited to find flyers advertising the Elizabethtown College Ecuador trip, a school-sponsored spring break. Ecuador sounded so much cooler than spending a week in Miami or Cancun, so I spent a few months working extra hours at my on-campus job and scrimping pennies in order to pay for the
