SARAH GOING

travel, money, life

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

travel, money, life

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

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

travel, money, life

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

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?

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m London girl, through and through... but there is another European city I’d happily end up in long term, short term or just for another visit, and I don’t see it mentioned on blogs as often as other European travel hubs. So I think it's time to change that.

Jul 25

Jul 25 Year 2 at Sarah Going: A New Look and Better Organization

Right about the time that my blog celebrated its first birthday in April 2017, I realized I had an organizational problem on my hands.

Jul 20

Jul 20 New Orleans in Pictures and My Love Affair with Photography

Some of the pictures from my most recent trip to New Orleans, and the story of how I fell in love with photography.

Jul 12

Jul 12 One Word to Describe: New Orleans

After visiting New Orleans on a long weekend trip two years ago, the city stayed at the back of my mind (and stayed on my travel bucket list)... so I jumped at the chance to revisit this 4th of July.

Jun 19

Jun 19 A New Take on Nashville

At this time last year, I wrote my most popular post ever about the year of failure that ultimately led to me accepting an offer to stay and work in Nashville. One year later, the plan is still to stay here for awhile.

Jun 16

Jun 16 On Turning 27: Caring Less and Living More

Even if I’m a bit late to the birthday post game this year, I still want to share a few thoughts on turning 27 for posterity’s sake

Jun 14

Jun 14 FAQs on Getting a Full-Time Job Directly Out of College (from a world-traveling blogger)

money

As one of those weird millennials who went straight to work after graduation, I think there are a lot of pros to working full time after college. But since I also happen to be a world-traveling blogger, I tend to get some questions about this topic.

Jun 13

Jun 13 Travel Gear Review: The Gregory Deva 60 Backpack

There is one particular piece of travel gear that I can't live without: my backpack. My Gregory Deva 60 Backpack, to be exact. So I figured it was about time that I shared my review of this essential piece of travel gear here on the blog.

Jun 9

Jun 9 10 Day Trip Review: Hungary, Austria and Germany in April

How to visit Budapest, Vienna, Innsbruck and Munich in 10 days... using only 5 vacation days off work.

Jun 5

Jun 5 From Nashville to New Orleans

When people travel, they tend to notice and remember a pretty specific set of things about the places they visit. On all of my personal major metrics for liking a city, New Orleans does not disappoint.

Jun 4

Jun 4 June Plans: Working and Working Out