When we decided we were headed to Lisbon for two weeks, the first thing I did was look for must-make restaurant bookings. Alma came up time and time again, as a 2 Michelin-starred and 50 Best Discovery restaurant.

Cinque Terre is a stunningly beautiful place, filled with colorful homes, crooked stairs, and startlingly aqua waters. I’ve focused this post on a few of our favorite photos, but also included a few tips at the end in case some of them are helpful!

The City of Canals is so unique, with docks that serve as entrances, and water busses as the most common form of public transportation. Given the volume of people and goods moving through the city, it’s easy to see how Venice became one of the wealthiest cities in Europe during the Renaissance.

If you’re looking to take a trip to Italy, you’re probably debating where to go and how to spend your time. Well, we have some thoughts! Here is an ordered list of the cities we visited, with a few local tips and our recommendations for how long to spend in each place.

I just got back from a life-changing trip to Italy (photos to come!), and realized that there are some things I just can’t leave home without. So I wanted to compile this list in case it helps you travel, too!

Planning a destination wedding without visiting the destination is quite the adventure, and we knew we'd need at least a week before our wedding to get everything ready to go before our big day.

Michia likes to surprise me for Valentine’s Day, so I never get to know where we’re going until we’re on our way, sometimes not until we get there. But between a surprise car and a surprise destination, he made sure it was a day I wouldn’t soon forget.

On our recent trip to Mexico, Michia wanted to do something really special: taking hot air balloons up over the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids special. I was initially hesitant, but ultimately decided that we should just go for it. And I’m so glad we did.

I've always known I love animals, but there was something amazingly special about being among them in the wilderness that I will forever consider one of the best experiences a person can have.

Frequent readers will know that Western Africa is one of my favorite parts of the world, so my expectations were already high when I secured a lift to Bamako.

To avoid flying 30 hours to East Africa just for a couple days, my fiancé and I planned an 18-day adventure that would take us to 3 nature reserves, 2 countries, 5 cities, and enough outings to cover the holidays and then some. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's talk about Nairobi.

TripAdvisor's #1 Attraction in Nairobi is the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant sanctuary, and that's not without reason. Visiting these young elephants is definitely one of the most satisfying things to do in the city.