I visited Ireland when I studied abroad in 2010, but it was a quick trip of about 4 days on a coach bus with 30 or so others. Don’t get me wrong it was fun, but that trip I focused more on taste-testing Guinness than really exploring the country. As soon as my mom said… Continue reading Emerald Isle
This summer I decided to do a second season working as a tour guide. At the end of April I headed up to our base in New Jersey where I got my van, trailer + gear ready and then picked up my first group in Newark. This trip was called a Southern Sun and hit… Continue reading Summer in a Nutshell
I had bought plane tickets months ago to travel across the pond in April, but then my plans changed and I needed to decide on a new destination. I played around with a couple different ideas- Portugal, Belize, Mexico… then I started looking at flights to Nicaragua because for a couple years now I’ve been… Continue reading Land of Volcanoes
For a couple years now I have been interested in working a ski season. I know a couple people who did it in years past and it seemed like a lot of fun. I was always occupied during the winters before though, gallivanting around other countries (or saving up money at home in order to… Continue reading Life in Colorado
I had a couple weeks free in the beginning of November before Thanksgiving. As my friend Mal recently put it “you don’t like to stay in one place do you?” Which is like saying “you like cookie dough don’t you?” I love cookie dough. I had been floating the idea of going back to La… Continue reading Back with the whale sharks
I must admit I did not come up with this phrase. It was my brilliant friend Natasha who was the mastermind behind the rhyme. She coined it when my teaching friends (her, Emi, Rosalyn, Emma) and myself decided we were going to reunite this year, four years after we met and taught in France. We… Continue reading Reconvene 2016
This summer has been a busy one. Is it still even summer? Time just flew by. After the road trip with my mama in June I started training in California to lead tours round the US. My training group was awesome there were 10 of us from across the states and one Canadian for good… Continue reading Hello from the Outside
