Travel blogger. Budget backpacker. Digital nomad. Serial expat.
My month-long expedition through Egypt, Jordan, Italy, and Malta had barely begun, and I’d already seen more than I ever dared to dream. Cairo had knocked my socks off on the first day of...
Exactly one year ago, I found myself high above the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Cairo, Egypt, eager to embark on an eleven-day odyssey through the land of the Nile. It marked the start of...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 9, 2024 · Last modified January 18, 2024
In all my years of compiling end-of-year travel recaps, I have had a lot of good years. Like 2016, when I visited 29 countries in a single year. Or 2011, when I graduated college...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published August 28, 2023 · Last modified January 18, 2024
When I closed my full-time travel chapter in 2017, having lived abroad for years and then backpacked for sixteen months, I thought my long-term travel days were behind me. I knew the grind of...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 25, 2023 · Last modified January 18, 2024
As someone who’s always been a sucker for deals and freebies, the phrase “all-inclusive” is like music to my ears. So a free all-inclusive experience? Now you’re really speaking my language! Moreover, a free, all-inclusive...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 3, 2023 · Last modified January 18, 2024
Life may look a little strange during these, ahem, “unprecedented times,” but if there’s one tried and true tradition I can stick with, it’s my annual travel recap. Can you believe I’ve now been...
When I returned from my latest trip to Spain in the fall of 2019, I never imagined it would be another 31 months before I next left the country. Then again, nothing about the...
Annual Travel Recaps / Knott's Berry Farm / Other
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 12, 2022 · Last modified January 18, 2024
A year-end recap published in June? That is just wacky. But one of my favorite traditions is my annual travel year in review post: since 2011, I’ve wrapped up each year by looking back...
