Traveling Kelsey
I travel not to escape life, but to be sure that life will not escape me! Come join me!
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After one last day at sea, we arrived at our final destination on this seven day cruise. The next day, we would return to our port of call, Miami, and my family would bid our farewells and head to our corners of the country: Philadelphia, Tucson, and Denver. This will be my second time on the city of Nassau, yet the memories have faded, so it was nice to see the city… Read More
Our second destination, locate not too far west of Sint Maarten, was St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, one of the five US territories in the world. The US Virgin Islands are made up of three islands: Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island. This former Dutch colony was acquired by the United States in 1917 as a part of a defensive strategy during World War One. We woke up to… Read More
The Island of Saint Maarten, or also known as St. Martin, is located in the more eastern part of the Caribbean, past Puerto Rico and both the British and US Virgin Islands. It is an interesting island with a complex history, which trickles into the present. It was a part of the former Netherlands Antilles, an autonomous Caribbean country that was comprised of two island groups until Aruba became a separate country… Read More
I have a lot of mixed feelings about cruise line travel. This trip was my fourth cruise I have been on, so I believe I do have a bit of insight to offer when it comes to cruising, from a young adults perspective, obviously. When my mom emailed my sister and I in the middle of our fall semester finals December of 2012 asking if we would be interested in going on… Read More
London England: a deceptively New York-ish style city where cultures from all corners of the world converge, everyone speaks sarcasm as a second language, and where I truly discover what people mean when they say the England and the US are two nations separated by a common language. Although I was rather reluctant to continue forward after being in Ireland the past week, I knew the show must go on and I… Read More
Cork City: a charming, quaint city in the south western county of Cork, had its arms wide open from the moment we arrived. Built on the River Lee, which divides the city into two districts, was both incredibly unexpected and wildly entertaining, filled with a number of tributes to the great St. Patrick who not only brought Christianity to the Irish shores, but also, according to legend, drove away all snakes from… Read More
Throughout all of my years of traveling, it often occurs that I find myself thinking, “These people have something figured out that we, in the states, haven’t really sorted out.” What ever “it” may be, there is always something in every culture that makes me reexamine the American way of doing things, which in a lot of ways is the beauty of travel. I came across a quote by a guy named… Read More
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