In our continuing quest to hit all 50 states, we headed out to Arkansas. I’d been to Fayetteville once before for a conference (cute town!) but in general there wasn’t a lot compelling us to …
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Diamond Mining in Arkansas: Get Cold, Get Muddy, Stay Poor
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Do the ‘Chu: Our Quick, Bucket-List Trip to Machu Picchu
As I mentioned, it wasn’t easy to get to Machu Picchu, but once we were there, man oh man, did we have fun. THE GUIDES As soon as you step off the bus, you’re accosted …
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Planes, Trains, and Autobuses: Our Adventures below Machu Picchu
After a crazy-busy month of work, I was able to take a long weekend off with Rick to check a major item off our bucket list: Machu Picchu. MACHU PICCHU!! It even sounds exotic, like …
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Tokyo Time!
After our monkey business in Osaka and Arashiyama, Rick and I took the bullet train to Tokyo. So fast! So hideous! Hotels in Tokyo were still charging cherry-blossom prices even though cherry blossoms were hard …
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Awesome Blossom: Cherry Blossom Season in Osaka and Arashiyama
It had been ages (six weeks!) since we went anywhere, and Rick and I were getting itchy. This adventure, we were smart enough not to go somewhere cold, and instead crossed two important items off …
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GNP, we hardly knew ye: wishin’ and White Fishin’ in Glacier National Park
Apparently this SoCal girl has a masochistic streak, because just after our Iceland trip, we were off to Glacier National Park in Montana. In February. On purpose. To be fair, this trip asked us to …
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What Were We Thinking? Iceland in January
You guys, we visited the northernmost capital in the world in the middle of winter. What were we thinking? We had a three-day weekend and decided at the last minute—literally 10pm on Thursday—that we would …
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My 10 Favorite Travel Pics of 2018
I did a lot of adventuring in 2018. A lot of quick adventuring, too. Rick and I like to jump on planes at the last minute and go somewhere we’ve never been, and with 52 …
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Double Dating in Dublin
This adventure Rick and I took with my parents, who are awesome. I highly recommend traveling with them if given the opportunity. Their majesties, Bev and Al We met at Dublin Airport, where not only …
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Admire the Admiralty Suite: JW Marriott Hong Kong
Because of some last-minute work complications, we ended up arriving in Hong Kong a day early (or a week late, or tomorrow; it’s impossible to calculate across the International Date Line). Genuinely horrified at how …
Adventures with Katie 