Our last day in Dublin, so what do we do? Hop on a bus and head north! But first, let me back up. While trip planning, we saw countless people suggesting Dublin didn’t need more than a day or two. Even when we shared our rough itinerary, including three nights in Dublin, people tried to change our minds. This did ultimately sway us and we wound up deciding to use Dublin as a “base” for two day […]
Day two. What an amazing first day we had in Dublin! Despite our lack of sleep, we powered through a full day of sight seeing and had a great time exploring the city. Our second day started with an early rise. With a short walk from our hotel, we arrived at the Tourism Centre somewhere around a quarter til nine, just on time for our Wicklow Mountain/Glendalough day tour. We originally booked with Frank at Wild Mountain […]
After months and months of waiting, the day had finally arrived. We were off to the airport with the hope our flight would leave on time from St. Louis at 12:20pm. Unfortunately, it did not. I don’t even remember what time the flight wound up departing the St. Louis airport, but it was late enough to have foiled our plans to eat dinner during our layover in Newark. We were hoping if we ate at the airport, we could sleep though […]
I had such a great time planning our trip but it was incredibly difficult figuring out how to narrow down what we wanted to see and do. Is that too much to drive in one day? Is that place worth seeing? How do we go see X if it’s on the opposite side of the country as Y? Then of course, I felt like I had to do my due diligence of sorting through threads upon threads of advice […]
Back in early 2013 I started working for someone with a serious passion for travel—It was infectious and inspiring. As someone who hasn’t seen much of the world, that wonderful thing called wanderlust developed almost immediately and I started day dreaming about where I would go if I could ever afford it. Unfortunately, trips to far away places had always seemed unattainable pre and post-college. Be it due to other expenses or securing the time off, it was […]
