SARAH GOING

While this may have started out as a negative topic, it has evolved for me into more of a call for solutions. Everyone is talking about what's wrong with travel blogging, and there is some room for that acknowledgement: but I want to take that a step farther. Let’s brainstorm some ways to shine a light on the dark side of travel blogging.

Jul 13

Jul 13 The Dark Side of Travel Blogging: An Introduction

Ultimately, I don’t want to write another blog that isn’t providing actionable advice to real people, isn’t telling the full story, and is ultimately being more alienating than inspirational… there are plenty of those.

Jun 21

Jun 21 Reasons I'm Not a Very Good Travel Blogger

life, travel

The story of my repetitive failures at being an insta-model (and other fun travel blogging fails and adventures).

Jun 14

Jun 14 When in Doubt... Do Something

life

Although I read a mixture of fiction and nonfiction last year, one particular concept was alluded to, mentioned, explained and reiterated in so much of what I read that I figured it was important enough to deserve its own blog post.

Jun 9

Jun 9 My Travel Quest

I recently finished reading Chris Guillebeau's The Happiness of Pursuit, which is a book entirely devoted to the importance of quests. So what exactly is a quest, anyway? And more importantly, how do we figure out what our own quest should be?

May 25

May 25 What I've Been Learning About Money Lately

money

So far in 2018, I’ve been reading blogs, listening to podcasts, taking a finance class on Coursera, talking to friends and generally doing whatever I can to get smarter about money. So I figured it was time for an update about some of the things I’ve been learning.

May 17

May 17 Hello From a London Laundry Room

Since I’ve been to London a few times before, I decided to bring my laptop this time. I had visions of mornings spent in East London cafes sipping cappuccinos while writing a few blog posts. But old habits die hard, apparently.

May 5

May 5 Planning Slower Travel: My First International Trip of 2018

travel, money

In May 2018, I'm headed back to London, England for my fifth visit and counting. But I'm also going to Montreal, Canada. In the same 10 day trip. From Nashville, Tennessee.

So how in the world did this happen?

Apr 26

Apr 26 The Blogger Behind the Blog: My Travel Story

My favorite blog posts tend to be those posts that tell the blogger’s story, so I was shocked to realize that I’ve never actually shared the story of how I became a world-traveling blogger here on my blog. Until now.

Mar 30

Mar 30 On Not Growing Out of My Wanderlust Yet

Can you believe it has been two years since I started this blogging adventure? Some things have changed, but one thing hasn't: I'm no closer to hanging up my travel backpack than I was on day one.

Mar 3

Mar 3 French, Finance and the End of February

At this point two months in, I’m holding judgement on whether or not I bit off more than I can chew with my 2018 goals. While they may be a bit overambitious, it is also possible I just had a rough start to the year.

Feb 10

Feb 10 Why I'm a Fan of Journaling

travel, life

Now that I've finally figured out how to make it work for me, I'm actually a huge proponent of journaling... and here's why.

Jan 27

Jan 27 2018: New Year, New Priorities

An introduction to the five priorities that I want to focus on in the coming year.

Jan 6

Jan 6 Lessons from a DIY Renovation: Self Care, Priorities and Balance

life

When the way you spend your time doesn’t match your values, everything goes downhill pretty quickly.

Jan 3

Jan 3 2017: A Year in Review

travel, life

At the beginning of 2017, I set 5 primary New Years’ Resolutions.

Here’s how they went.

Nov 13

Nov 13 Choose Adventure

Believe it or not, there is a unifying theme to everything that is going on in my life, and therefore, on this blog:

I choose adventure.

Oct 12

Oct 12 Introducing... My Fifties Fixer Upper

life

I've been trying to come up with a clever title to use when I talk about my new house here on the blog, but for now all I can think of is "the fifties fixer upper"... which may not be the most creative, but does summarize the situation pretty well.

Oct 9

Oct 9 Thoughts On Living Authentically and Writing Your Own Rules

travel, life

There isn’t a natural way for a travel blogger to introduce the fact that they now have a mortgage with their name on it. Especially when that blogger already has a full-time job in finance. “Can this girl even call herself a travel blogger anymore?”

Aug 4

Aug 4 Why Visit Vienna?