About Me
I think my interest in traveling was sparked during childhood when I was an avid reader. My family never planned trips to Paris, or London, or Tokyo, but I read about them, and was determined I'd see them for myself. I vividly remember studying the great explorers such as Ferdinand Magellan in third grade. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was "An Explorer." I was devastated to be told that the earth had been pretty fully explored, and that wasn't really an actual career any longer. Rather than quash my desire to explore, I just became more determined to see it all.
In college, I refused to graduate unless I studied abroad, sending me on my very first trip abroad to London. I'd wanted to visit London since I was about 8, so it was a dream come true. I also ventured over to Paris, France, and Aachen, Germany for long weekends. At that was it, I was hooked. A few years later in 2015, I visited Iceland before it was cool, and in 2017 I went on my first solo trip to Spain.
While I spent my childhood family vacations camping and exploring national parks and the great outdoors, it wasn't until February of 2017, when I visited Arizona and went hiking in Sedona that I really fell in love with wild places all over again. I spent the rest of the year hiking, swimming, and kayaking through 13 states, exploring so many national and state parks, monuments, forests, lakeshores, and wilderness areas that I lost count! In the fall of 2017, I moved to Montana, and I'm excited to explore Montana, it's the most beautiful state I've seen yet!
After hearing from a few friends that I had inspired them to travel more, I wanted to share more about how I do it, where I go, what I loved, what I would do differently, how I plan, and really memorable moments. I created this page for me to compile and share my adventures, and hopefully inspire more people to explore! This page is a way to merge my photography shared on Instagram on two separate accounts with different focus areas, especially as my trips begin to blur the lines between urban and wild.
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