Category: Ireland
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The Best Things About Using a Travel Advisor
… I was wrong about never using an expert. And I am here to say “swallow your ego and get an aid”.
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2010 Journal – Chapter 36
Goodbye to the trip July 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM Thurday, July 08, 2010Florissant, Colorado I suppose this is the final blog, the final thing to send to all of you as a thanks for listening and a reflection on all of my trip. I’ve now been home two and a half weeks, almost three.…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 23
Dublin last day May 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM Saturday May 22, 2010Dublin, Ireland Wednesday I had my whole day planned out to the tee and was so excited to get moving, alas the way traveling tends to go my plan was completely foiled. However I had a lot of fun regardless. I started the…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 22
Dublin day 2 and Howth May 18, 2010 at 2:13 PM Tuesday May 18, 2010Dublin, Ireland I waited to post again for a couple of reasons, one being what I wrote about yesterday was more sad than happy. Then two because sometimes when overwhelmed you have to mill stuff over before facing it again. So…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 21
Dublin day 1 May 17, 2010 at 2:18 AM Dublin day oneMonday May 17, 2010 Yesterday morning being the stubborn individual I tend to be I awoke at 6am to catch the 8am bus back to Dublin. Which ultimately I sort of regretted. The first thing was getting on the bus in time which was…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 20
Cork and Blarney May 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM Saturday, May 15th 2010Cork, Ireland Last night at dinner I met up with a very nice German woman by the name of Claudia, we sat together at dinner talking and comparing travel notes on where we had been. She is 29 and has been traveling on…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 19
Travel days and first thoughts on Ireland May 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM Travel days and first thoughts on IrelandFriday May 14th, 2010Cork, Ireland As you all know Wednesday was a sort of hard day for having to leave Edinburgh and Stuart. I spent all day on the train switching three different times to at…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 12
The Ash Cloud of 2010 required several changes of plans during my travels. Around April 30, 2010 I thought I had a new schedule that was good to go, but in reality life had other plans and 19-year-old me got swept up in the romance of new meetings. As a travel advisor ten years later,…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 1
I had a lot of free time 10 years ago. I was single. I worked full time in a fossil shop. I lived at home. While I “took care of myself” paying for gas, nights out, and much of my food, I didn’t know what all adulthood entailed. The fossil shop got minimal foot traffic…
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Day Trips – to go or not to go?
There are times in life where preconceived notions have to be put to the test and nothing has challenged me more than the subject of day trips (in regards to travel anyway). Well before I started venturing into the world on my own I had in my head that the best way to travel was…