International

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…

I am writing this to you from the Oneworld lounge inside the Bradley International Terminal at LAX, which is where these lovely martinis appeared. And just like that, I’m in a vacation state of mind! There is also a man in a formal suit walking around in here with a…

(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…

Every few months I try to get away for a mini-vacation and this one was even more miniature than most but so, so worth it. As I was frantically last-minute packing I was also conferencing in Tom and my boss for a blah blah blah work call. August has been…

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…

Helsinki, 2:56 a.m. Traveling alone is something I recommend for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because when you are alone it is 100% normal and OK to be wide awake drinking champagne in my your hotel room at 2 a.m. I wasn’t expecting to be alone on this trip (hello, it…