In the heyday of the pandemic freak out last year I took off on a month long road trip west with a friend, we did so responsibly and with the goal to […]
Utah National Parks Road Trip
Adventures of Camping on St John, USVI… with a Hog.
I live in Texas. In Texas you hear stories of terrifyingly large wild hogs just wrecking havoc on peoples land, and also how dangerous they can be for humans. I never expected […]
Torres Del Paine Circuit Trek Chronicles
When my friend and I decided to go to Patagonia, we found a few helpful sites to plan the trip ourselves rather than paying exponentially more to go through a tour company. […]
Where the Green Dress Travels- Backpacking Patagonia
Where the green dress travels has been such a wonderful passion project for me. When I started my blog almost a decade ago I thought I had to be funny, tell a […]
2 Weeks in the Cook Islands
By the end of 2 weeks in the Cook Islands I was undoubtedly bored. Upon returning home, I’m surprised that I miss that idleness and look at it with an entirely different […]
Vacation in Labadee, Haiti
My friends, coworkers, & family are always asking, ‘well where are ya off to next?’ The reactions when I told them I was going to Haiti were pretty amusing. Confusion then concern […]
A Girls Trip to Ancient Egypt
First impressions set the tone for meeting a person or a place. Very quickly our minds register a like or dislike, and often we refer back to our initial feeling. I was […]
Isla Holbox & Swimming with Whale Sharks
Gabriel: ‘If you really want to swim with whale sharks, you should go to Mexico.’ Me: ‘What? Where’ Gabriel: ‘Holbox. It’s an island with no cars, just a few streets with golf […]
‘La Dolce Vita’ in Tuscany & Florence.
I’m pretty sure that if you’re a woman and you’ve seen or read Under the Tuscan Sun, you have related in some way and mentally put yourself into her shoes letting the […]
Quebec City and the Siberia Station Spa
There is something to be said for experiencing a ‘seasonal’ vacation destination. Mountains and skiing in the winter, gardens in the spring, beach in the summer… etc. Which is why I was […]
Wedding Crashing in Paris on NYE. Wait, What?!
I’m pretty sure I have another post that starts out with, “people always tell me that the most random things happen to me”. Well I think this one beats riding around Guatemala […]
Where The Green Dress Travels: To Learn a Lesson in Croatia.
A couple of years after college I remember having a conversation with another UTC Moc (yes, that was our mascot) if athletes have a harder time transitioning into the real world and […]
The Battle of an Adult Flower girl and Jellyfish in Kauai, Hawaii.
Vacations typically have highs and lows, but my trip to Kauai took this to a whole new level in a single day. to My friend Dustin asked me to be the flower […]
What you can do with 2 days in Alaska
First off, this trip to Alaska is proof that I’m not an extreme type A must-have-researched type of traveler. My friend Kate and I decided to go to Alaska maybe 5 days […]
