feministraveler

Since we made the decision to take a vacation to Alaska we have been doing lots of things to prepare. We love preparing and planning for trips- it builds the excitement and gets us pumped! Alaska 2016!... read more

After landing in the states, we traveled with tages' family across the west heading east to cleveland, ohio.... read more

saying goodbye is never easy....so much has happened in this amazing year. we quit our jobs march 20th of 2009, said goodbye to my family in minnesota and drove to ohio (making a quick stop in chicago to say goodbye to our bff sarah and a last meal at our fave vegan restaurant, chicago diner) and spent the next 2 weeks with tages's family. they drove us to new york city where i said goodbye to my bff jan and my aunt dorothy and we flew to london, england on april 15th. we spent the next 7 months exploring europe. during that time we backpacked across the netherlands, romania, hungary, serbia, bosnia, croatia, germany, poland, czech republic, austria, turkey and england. we flew back to new york mid-november for a short 4 day stay and then ... read more

When heading to Mexico, my sister had told us about a little place called Tequila where tequila originated. We couldn't believe this and immediately thought "We need to go there!!" So here we are...we realized that in Guadalajara there is one of two remaining train lines that still function for people and it goes to Tequila, Jalisco. AMAZING! The price of the train to Tequila was 75$, but well worth every penny!! You arrive at the train station around 9:30 a.m. and enjoy music by the Tequila Express Mariachi band. Then at 10 a.m. you board the Tequila Express train and ride throughout the agave fields all the while enjoying as much tequila, mixed drinks and beer that you can muster. The train ride lasts about 2 hours and in that time you enjoy music from ... read more

we pulled into mexico city at 11am on our overnight bus from palenque. i was so excited to be going to this massive city, i never in a million years thought we would be. with the population exceeding 8.8 million people, i always imagined total chaos when i pictured mexico city. and we were shocked to find that it was relatively calm and organized with fantastic public transportation and tons of things to do and see. we spent our days exploring the city, visiting museums and ruins and eating delicious street food. sadly, graham returned back to canada one week after we arrived. we had a fantastic 6 weeks together and were sad to see our traveling partner, history teacher, sarcastic jerk, jokester, michelada/coco loco amigo, espanol competitor, gay magnet, money bags, plastic stir stick sipper, ... read more