Meet Me

I am from Iowa, which doesn't offer a whole lot of excitement when it comes to travel... But as long as I can remember, I have loved traveling, and everything that comes with it (even airports). I don't know if it is something that I was born with, or if it is because I grew up visiting my aunt in Illnois and then in Colorado with my grandparents every year.

And then there was the first time I saw the ocean with my mom and sister when I was 16. Talk about love at first sight, I was absolutely hooked.

In college, I interned for a program that provided services to military kids. That brought me to Florida, Germany, South Korea, Belgium, Japan, and Hawaii, and it also sparked my love for the military culture.

I currently work on the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina - working for the military is a dream I've been working towards for about 7 years. Not only is working for the military a dream come true, but living on the east coast is also opening up so many different opportunities for travel, and I am only getting started.

Besides traveling, I love spending hours on Trip Advisor, reading other travel blogs, and planning my next vacation. But if you're forcing me to think about hobbies outside of traveling, then I'd have to say I love our two cats, reading, pina coladas and Busch Light, long walks with my ipod, a good game of Monopoly, casinos, catching up with my friends and family, and socializing. But most importantly, I also love this guy:

Whether or not he loves traveling as much as me, I don't think we'll never know. But he always goes wherever I want, lets me plan everything from the hotel to our activities (even though he'd rather wing it), and never (literally) complains. He even drives us to our destination of the time ;)