CARMEL & MONTEREY CITY GUIDE

In October, Justin and I head out to California for a long weekend to celebrate our second anniversary. We flew into San Jose, rented a convertible and drove down Highway 1 to Big Sur. I want to preface this city guide with the fact that our trip was completely unplanned upon arrival. We booked our […]

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FLORENCE TRAVEL GUIDE

Ciao from Florence! Babe and I spent four days in this beautiful city in the Spring. We traveled by train from Rome. We spent the first two days on day trips out of the city and the last two exploring. Florence is a great location for day trips it seems! We arrived at our first […]

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ROME TRAVEL GUIDE

A very important lesson we learned flying into Rome is to let your first travel day be flexible. Our flight was 6 hours delayed and thankfully we hadn’t planned much but roaming. People around us had booked train tickets that couldn’t be changed. We were grateful to not have a ton of pressure on us […]

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PHOENIX & SCOTTSDALE CITY GUIDE

Ever since I started working for Southwest, all I wanted to do was go hiking. I mean, typical Florida girl sees only flat land for twenty five years… obviously I need some serious mountain time. Arizona had been on my list all year and when our college football team made it to the Fiesta Bowl […]

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LISBON CITY GUIDE

Lisbon, Portugal is known for it’s historically large trading port, lots of delicious custard tarts and sardines. Let’s be up front- we were more interested in the baked goods than the sardines. Anywho, Justin is actually Portugese and we had a lot of fun quizzing one of our guides on the heritage of ‘Costa’, meaning […]

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LONDON CITY GUIDE

Popping into London, England for some fish and chips in your rain boots? Justin and I spent five days exploring the city. Overall, we felt it was super walkable, safe and friendly. We were relieved by the familiar language too. My biggest issue was actually finding vegetables to eat and I felt this way all […]

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