Travel blogger. Budget backpacker. Digital nomad. Serial expat.
According to Madrid’s 2019 tourism report, a mere 6.6% of surveyed travelers cited winter as the best time of year to visit Madrid. But if you choose to go against the grain and see...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 31, 2021 · Last modified January 18, 2024
Each year for the past nine years, I’ve published a “Travel Year in Review” post with month-by-month recaps of that year’s top adventures. While some years were considerably more eventful than others, I’ve always...
As COVID-19 cases have reached an all-time high here in the U.S., I reiterate what I’ve been saying all year: be safe and stay home! That said, as the first vaccines have begun to...
It was hard not to feel like I was on top of the world when I woke up in rural Bolivia on November 8th, 2016—and not just because I was 14,000+ feet above sea...
Collaborations / Knott's Berry Farm
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published September 28, 2020 · Last modified April 14, 2021
It wasn’t long ago I was bouncing around the world, seeing new cities and meeting new people every few days. These days, I’m mostly flitting between the three rooms of my apartment. And while...
I vowed in a recent post to start writing the posts that I want to write instead of the posts I feel I should write. So where better to start than one of the...
When I think about the countries I’m most eager to return to once it’s safe to travel again, Japan is near the top of my list. I spent a wonderful week there in 2016,...
When I started this blog nearly twelve years ago, it was out of pure passion: passion for building websites, for learning my way around WordPress, and for sharing my excitement as my junior year...
