My Travels: Where in the World I have been?

MY ROUTE: March 2011 – August 2012

ENGLAND - July 18, 2012 - July 27, 2012

SWITZERLAND/ITALY - July 2, 2012 - July 18, 2012

TURKEY - June 21, 2012 - July 2, 2012

EGYPT - June 7, 2012 - June 21, 2012

SWITZERLAND/ITALY/LIECHTENSTEIN/AUSTRIA - May 2, 2012 - July 7, 2012

SPAIN, PORTUGAL, FRANCE - April 28, 2012 - May 2, 2012

MOROCCO/WESTERN SAHARA - April 7, 2012 - April 28, 2012

SWITZERLAND - March 15, 2012 - April 7, 2012

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MY ROUTE: September 2010 – August 2011

FIJI - August 9, 2011 – August 18, 2011

VANUATU - July 20 2011 - August 9, 2011

SAILING PASSAGE FROM FIJI TO VANUATU- July 13, 2011 – July 20, 2011

FIJI - June 23, 2011 - July 13, 2011

SAILING PASSAGE FROM TONGA TO FIJI – June 16, 2011 – June 23, 2011

TONGA – June 2, 2011 – June 16, 2011

SAILING PASSAGE FROM NEW ZEALAND TO TONGA – May 17, 2011 – June 2, 2011

NEW ZEALAND – March 13, 2011 – May 17, 2011

AUSTRALIA – February 26, 2011 – March 13, 2011

THAILAND – January 25, 2010 – February 26, 2011

AUSTRALIA – September 13 2010 – January 25, 2011

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MEXICO – June 17-20, 2010

BELGIUM – May 19-25, 2009 – May 25, 2009

THE NETHERLANDS - May 9, 2009 – May 18, 2009

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AUSTRALIA – October 24, 2008 – November 10, 2008

INDONESIA – October 8, 2008 – October 24, 2008

SINGAPORE – October 3, 2008 – October 8, 2008

MALAYSIA – September 17, 2008 – October 3, 2008

VIETNAM – August 21, 2008 – September 17, 2008

CAMBODIA – August 7, 2008 – August 21, 2008

LAOS – July 18, 2008 – August 7, 2009

THAILAND – June 17, 2008 – July 18, 2008

AUSTRALIA – March 18, 2008 – June 17, 2008

NEW ZEALAND – February 24, 2008 – March 18, 2008

AUSTRALIA – November 13, 2007 – February 24, 2008

COSTA RICA – March 2007
I traveled alone for 2 weeks in Costa Rica. I spent a week in Puerto Viejo a small beach town on the Caribbean Coast near Panama. I worked on a volunteer project with children at Hone Creek Elementary School, participated in a beach cleaning project, and assisted in art projects with children at the Roots of Love Foundation. I visited the Arenal Volcano, Monte Verde Cloud Forest Reserve, Joco Beach, and the capital city San Jose. While in Puerto Viejo I kayaked, surfed, biked, and relaxed on the beach. I took a zip-line tour in Arenal, hiked to the volcano, and rode a horse to La Fortuna Waterfall. In Monte Verde I hiked through the Cloud Forest Reserve.

FRANCE, SPAIN – January 2003

I spontaneously decided to fly to France in January 2003 right before I moved cross-country to San Francisco. My good friend Jackie was working as a nanny for a family in the town of Perpignan in South France. I met Jackie in Paris and we did your typical site seeing for a few days: Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, D’Orsay Museum, and Notre Dame Cathedral. We took a train South to Perpignan and I stayed with Jackie and the family that she worked for. We took several day trips to nearby towns including the Medieval city of Ville Franche, and the beach town of Collioure. I spent the last few days of my trip in Barcelona, Spain.

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, IRELAND – May 2000

I took my first backpacking trip abroad after graduating from Clemson. I traveled with my college roommate and good friend Robyn, her boyfriend John, and my boyfriend at the time, Greg. We backpacked through England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Our trip was relatively short for the amount of sites we saw. While in England we visited the main sites of London and also toured Bath, Liverpool, Canterbury, Kent, and Brighton Beach. In Wales we hiked to a horse stable that ended up only having ponies and were stranded on the side of the road for hours. I do not have too many good memories of Wales but the people were very nice! In Ireland we did find horses and toured the countryside as well as the main spots in Dublin. Scotland was unanimously voted as our favorite country on the trip. We took the “Haggis Tour Bus” with a big group. We visited Lake Loch Ness, Edinburgh, and drove and hiked through the beautiful countryside.