Here's what surprised me most about O'ahu: it's incredibly well organized. My boyfriend and I didn't rent a car for our stay in Hawaii, and we never once felt stuck. Without a car, you can reach basically every point on the island by TheBus — the schedules are...
Hawaii was the dream stop. When my boyfriend and I were planning the back half of our two-week Mexico–US trip, we knew San Francisco was happening, and then it came down to one choice: Las Vegas or Honolulu. We checked the numbers, and Hawaii was clearly the more...
Waikiki is the Hawaii most people picture before they've ever been: the long curve of beach, the surfers, the high-rises right up against the sand, and a sunset that genuinely lives up to the hype. My boyfriend and I based ourselves here for the Hawaii leg of our...
I've walked out of museums on a complete high, and I've walked out of a few feeling as if I'd just wasted twelve euros and my afternoon. The YSL Museum in Marrakech was one of the disappointing ones for me — small, pricey, and over before I'd really warmed up. Then...
Visiting the La Casa Azul (Blue House) of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City was something I was genuinely excited about — seeing the place where she lived, created, and kept going despite everything life threw at her. But honestly, the saddest part was how commercialized it...
Teotihuacán wasn't even the plan. We were heading to Mexico City, but the flight from Mérida into Felipe Ángeles airport (NLU) was so much cheaper than flying into the main Mexico City airport that we built a one-night stop near the pyramids around it. So this isn't...
I booked this trip on the morning of May 27th. By evening, I was on a bus to Gyumri. By 6 am the next day, I was at Shirak Airport — Armenia's second airport, which most Armenians forget exists — boarding a Wizz Air flight to Larnaca, Cyprus. The ticket cost me 7,000...
I was standing in front of a 168-meter ball court in 40-degree heat, sweating through my dress, luggage stored in a locker that barely fit my backpack — and all I could think about was a DreamWorks cartoon from 2000 - The Road to El Dorado. The ball game scene. I'd...
Tulum is a small town. There's the playa, there's your hotel, there are a few murals if you go looking — and then there are the ruins. That's more or less the list. The Maya ruins of Tulum are the main reason most people make it to this part of the Yucatán Peninsula,...