Santiago: Week One Recap – Moving, Exploring and House Hunting!

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Hola a todos! Wow!  So much has happened in such a short amount of time.  It’s hard to believe we’ve been here less than a week a this point. We spent last weekend at my parents house, and got a great send off from my grandma and aunts before my parents dropped us at the airport Monday evening.  Leaving behind friends and family is definitely the hardest part of this move. I had to blink back a few tears as we turned the corner in the security line and gave my parents one last wave. Continue reading “Santiago: Week One Recap – Moving, Exploring and House Hunting!”

One Way Ticket

Just GoSantiago here we come! After spending most of the last year exploring the possibility of moving abroad, things are really starting to get real.  Today marks 30 days until we board a plane and head 5000 miles south to Santiago, Chile, the city we’ll call home for the next 2 years.  Continue reading “One Way Ticket”

Lighten Your Load: Why You Should Pack Light On Your Next Vacation

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The Inca Trail. A first hand lesson in the benefits of packing light.

I took my first trip abroad when I was 17. It was an 8 day school trip to Rome, Italy. I made the usual preparations – learned some basic Italian phrases, skimmed through travel guides from the library and completed the pre-work for my class. Anxious as I was to take my first international flight and become immersed into a foreign culture, the thing causing me the most anxiety the week before the trip was the packing. Continue reading “Lighten Your Load: Why You Should Pack Light On Your Next Vacation”