International

I was only on the ground in London for two and a half days but that was enough to have three full meals of fish & chips and touch all the pretty fabrics at Sew Over It. In other words, an awesome mini-trip! We took the overnight flight from LAX-LHR,…

The first thing you should know is that I love it here. I wasn’t expecting all of THIS. We arrived just past midnight and the whole airport was alive and abuzz with people everywhere. I had pre-booked us a car service to the hotel (https://www.rideways.com/). This is a luxury I…

Everyone loves a trip. But if you aren’t obsessively watching flights and all you remember is that one time you tried to go to London back in 2004 and a coach ticket was $1800 roundtrip, you may think international travel is a money pit. So how I am able to…

(Hi and also! I’m sorry this post didn’t get published on its actual date, it took me until now to get the photos resized. 🙁 I will try to be more on time with these in the future.) The boat tour was hands-down one of my favorite parts of this…

We made it to LAX and there was no issue with our tickets. The fellow who checked us in at the desk said sometimes the British Airways connections require you to check in with your passport or visa in person as a security measure, so yay, we breezed through. Also…

Today I got to try something new in my obsessive picture taking. One of my loverly birthday presents from the Captain was a super cool clip-on fisheye camera lens for my iPhone. A fisheye lens is a type of wide-angle lens that lets more visual information into the view. It…