Category - travel diaries
dress – thrifted (H&M, similar) heels – BCBGeneration earrings – Charming Charlie (similar) bracelet – Charming Charlie ring – Charming Charlie watch – Kate Spade clutch – Kate Spade lip – Burt’s Bees (Sunset Cruise) nails – Essie (Fairy Tailor) I grew up in a tiny rural town in Northern Michigan, and while I’ve lived… View Article
Aloha, and welcome back for part two of my Hawaii Travel Diary! Haven’t read part one? Head there first. Did I just say aloha? I guess I’m in a tropical mood. Onward! Day 5 We woke up bright and early on day five and sped off in the family mini-van to tour Kuaiwi Farm. I… View Article
Like most Midwesterners, I love to escape the brutality of our winters. This January marked my sister-in-law’s 40th, and, happily, she was game to celebrate in a big way. The whole family decided a trip somewhere spectacular was in order, so we chose Hawaii. In mid-January we packed our bags with bikinis and sundresses (well,… View Article
dress – Zara (similar) ruffle cardigan – Bebe (similar) tights – Hue pumps – Sole Society clutch – Etsy (similar) bracelet – The Limited (similar) ring – family heirloom (similar) earrings – Nordstrom Rack (similar) necklace – The Limited (similar) You may recall that the last time I featured this dress I emphatically declared that it… View Article
Hi, there, and welcome back! If you haven’t read part one of my Traverse City travel diary, head here before continuing on. All caught up? Let’s go! Chateau Chantal dress – New York and Company scarf – Aldo (similar) ankle boots – New York and Company handbag – StyleWe (c/o) trench – Banana Republic (current… View Article
At long last, I’m so excited to share with you part one of the travel diary of my recent trip up to Traverse City. As a native Michigander, I’m particularly excited about this post–I’m always looking for opportunites to expound on the merits of traveling to my home state. After all, as my father-in-law says,… View Article
We have A LOT of trips coming up. All of them are in 2017, so earlier this summer, between booking flights for Hawaii in January and planning our itinerary through Germany next May I had a peek at the prices for flights out to Colorado over Labor Day. As regular 9-5ers, my husband Curtis and… View Article
Last spring my husband and I got married in St. Thomas with a small group of family and friends. Since that time, several of those friends, along with my husband’s parents, have been saying “we have to go back” (an inside joke from Lost) because vacationing together in the Caribbean was such a great time. As… View Article
travel diaries ·
12/07/2015
Travel Diary: Northern Michigan
Longstanding tradition dictates that every fall, in the middle of November, we go to hunting camp. I’m a rural Midwestern girl at heart, so this doesn’t seem strange to me, but I do understand that it might seem strange to many of you out there. When I described going to hunting camp to several of my coworkers they all seemed surprised that hunting whitetail deer is even a thing people do, and they were doubly shocked to find out that it’s something I’m interested in. For this, I have to credit my father, who has been an outdoorsman his whole life and introduced it to me at an early age.
This post will both detail our adventures on this trip and explain a bit more about what hunting camp is and isn’t for the uninitiated.
travel diaries ·
09/20/2015
Travel Diary: San Juan Islands and Mount Hood
This Labor Day we decided to visit family out on the west coast. We spent the first half of our trip visiting my husband’s aunt and uncle at their beautiful home on San Juan island, a small island off the coast of Seattle in the Puget Sound. The second half of the trip we spent with my brother George and his wife Aimee. They were unfortunately (but understandably) unable to make it out to our wedding the Caribbean last spring, so part of the impetus for this trip was to spend some time with them to celebrate our marriage, but also to celebrate theirs. They moved out to Oregon from Michigan after they were married two years ago and I hadn’t yet been out for a visit. We decided to rent a cabin together near Mount Hood so we could spend our days hiking and being active and our nights making dinner together and relaxing. We had a fabulous time.
The photos below are a more in-depth view of our trip. I hope you enjoy–feel free to put any comments or questions in the comment section at the bottom. And a fair warning: this is an extremely photo-heavy post, so please give everything a moment to load before diving in.
Weekly Reading ·
07/10/2015
Joules’ Weekly Reading
DRESS – Old Navy (previously featured here)
SANDALS – Kate Spade (similar)
WRISTLET – Kate Spade
SUNGLASSES – Firmoo
WATCH – Michael Kors