Closing out 2019!

It’s been a hot sec since I’ve been on here, but I haven’t forgotten it! I’ve been feeling the urge to write lately so here I am, as lame as this post may be… Honestly it’s hard to write about travel when you’re stuck in one place. 2020 will hopefully have loads of adventures, even if they aren’t as extravagant as the past year has been (the travel bug has been well and truly caught, my friends). I miss blogging though so I’m definitely open to suggestions from those of you reading this for content and I am going to try and find some way to keep writing in the new year!

I don’t feel as though 2019 was a truly monumental year or anything, but that doesn’t mean it was without its successes. In the past 12 months (among other things) I:

  • Finished my contract in France
  • Crossed the Panama Canal
  • Visited four new countries (Malta, Guatemala, Czech Republic, and Aruba)
  • Made a bunch of scrapbooks
  • Saw loads of phenomenal theatre
  • Spent six weeks working in London
  • Went to a decent number of NBA TrailBlazers games
  • Did lots of solo traveling and exploring
  • Had my wisdom teeth out (jury is still out on whether I became less wise as a result)
Repping the home team on the iconic PDX carpet will always be a highlight
Cheesin’ into the new year 🤓

I documented my days this year with 1 Second Everyday and if you want to check it out, you can have a peek at my year in a second for (almost) every day – I lost it about September, whoops.

One second a day makes for a great way to review your year 😍

This time last year, I was getting ready to ring in the new year with 12 grapes in Spain, which makes this New Year feel kind of anti-climactic. Going into 2020, I’m not really sure what I want to come out of it. I want to explore opportunities in the field of international education, sort out some kind of travel adventure, and start of this next decade with a good mentality. Obviously the future isn’t crystal clear (I don’t have 2020 vision… what? You thought I wouldn’t throw it in somehow??), but maybe it can be a decade of change and really figuring out where my path in life is meant to take me. Who knows. What do you all think? Happy New Year!

Finishing out 2019 in the PNW – hoping 2020 will be LUMINOUS
Hard to believe this was my home for almost half of 2019