The city of Seattle is known as the Emerald City, and for good reason. The sprawling city is flanked by the Puget Sound and Olympics to the West, and Lake Washington and Cascades to the East. All of this natural landscape affords the city a lush greenery worth seeing. If you are looking for where…
I opened my eyes to a crisp morning, with soft sounds of a creek nearby and birds and wildlife slowly coming to life as I sat up and unzipped my tent to greet the morning. I’d been on many adventures over the years, from swimming with manta rays in Hawai’i to parasailing in the hills…
Many of the incredible day trips in Oregon can be made with Bend as a jumping off point. Bend is one of the more underrated cities in the Pacific Northwest, the uppermost corner of the contiguous US. Known for being an outdoorsy town, there are endless day trips from Bend, Oregon that adventurous travelers can…
Vancouver is the perfect location for a quick West Coast weekend getaway with friends. You could also easily take this trip with a partner or family, but we went for a girls’ weekend so that is the lens through which this guide will be laid out. The city is easily accessible by driving up from…
Back in 2016 I was working as an intern at a field studies program in Costa Rica. During the semester we traveled with the students and professors to field sites where they were taught about environmental conservation and how to conduct field research surveying wildlife, collecting samples from field sites, or even interviewing communities. At…
Living in the Pacific Northwest can have its ups and downs, like less day light and more moody weather, but I prefer to enjoy those ups and downs in the form of towering mountains and hillsides that lead to alpine lakes so I have spent the last 3 years living here happily exploring the terrain,…
Nicaragua is known as the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes, and so with good reason when our student group set out to make a comparative study of the country just north of Costa Rica’s border, our first stop was the island of Ometepe: a land mass composed of two volcanoes on Lake Nicaragua. It was…