Your best friend only gets married once, so when she invites you to Hawaii, where she’ll wed her soulmate on the beach, you say yes.
Tag: Travel
Toasting Friends in St. Pete
We planned our trip to St. Pete’s Beach in Florida a solid six months in advance. Five different women in four cities across three states – there was PTO to request, children’s schedules to coordinate, births to plan around – in short, it took a lot for me and four of my best friends from…
Eating Dinner at 5pm in Gulf Shores, Alabama
Oh boy. The annual family vacation. It’s a real kick in the teeth, isn’t it? As a mother who genuinely enjoys her children, I want to love the family vacation. I want to be fun and calm and spontaneous and have the cheery disposition of a kindergarten teacher. I want to have a never-ending supply…
A Covid Lull in Corolla
The year was 2020. There was a dip in covid-19 cases across the country and we saw our chance for a quick getaway. We had spent most of that year in various degrees of lock down and honestly, we were just about to lose our god damned minds. We decided the Outer Banks was the…
Vietnam – Living that Yacht Life in Hai Phong
We soon boarded another bus, this time bound for the east, the water, and the islands. Our bus this time had single seats, ones that laid nearly flat and were about the same width as a playground slide. Everyone spent the entire time on their phone except for the Buddhist monk in front of me….
Hanoi, Vietnam – Spiderman Samples and My Soupy Soulmate
First things first, readers. Take it from your old pal Sarah: you need a visa to get into Vietnam. And if your boyfriend tells you he’s just absolutely, 100% sure you can get it when you land, go ahead and get yourself one. If you don’t, you’ll be stranded at the airport on your 35th…
Family Time in Estes Park
We had taken charlie on a few vacations before – but mostly we had just brought him along when we traveled. This trip felt like our first real vacation as a family. Where was the best place to bring an antsy almost-three-year-old? Where could we hike mountains but also get back to a hotel in…
Smelling the Flowers in San Diego
It had been a little over two years since I had been to San Diego. The first time, I had gone with a tiny, two-month-old baby and a longing to feel the sun during a rainy October. This time, I had a giant, crazed toddler and a longing to feel the sun during a rainy…
Cheering on the French in Malaga!
Listen, reader: don’t ever leave your coach seat on a train from London to Manchester and try to sneak into First Class, okay? You’ll forget your phone in your original seat, and by the time you get back, it will have been swiped. And the hundreds of pictures you took on vacation will vanish like a fart in the wind and you’ll have to use your boyfriend’s crappy photos to make a blog post.
El Yunque National Rain Forest
On our way to San Juan, we decided to stop at the El Yunque National Forest. I had looked up several long hikes that I hoped to take through the rain forest, imagining a day of sore legs and beautiful views. Before heading out we went to a Puerto Rican Bakery near our hotel and…
The Vagabond Stomach 