Where I traveled in 2018

…and 2017, and where I’m going in the next…

I decided to make this list a part of my New Years tradition from now on, because trips are often times the highlights of the year for me, mixed with all the other memorable happenings.

Speaking of New Years, my cousin and I started a fun tradition last year of going out for a nice dinner and capping the evening with limoncello toasts. We talk about what we’re excited to leave behind in the past year, what we liked best about the year, and what we’re most looking forward to in the new year. Once we’ve both shared, we toast and take a sip of our limoncello.

It’s the perfect way to reflect and set an intention for the next year. An evaluation of the bad and the good, and a positive start to the year. We based these different toasts off of our cousin birthday questions we do every year. Basically the same idea, and we end with everyone saying what they love about the birthday girl. It’s one of my favorite traditions!! And again, an intentional and positive way to send someone into another year of their life.

Some memories never leave your bones. Like salt in the sea; they become part of you. And you carry them.
paper wings

So, as promised, a list of the places I went this year, and the year before, since I just started this I thought it’d be fun to list that as well since I have posts on a lot of those spots…

2017

Florence, Italy to live for five months
Verona, Italy with friends
Interlaken, Switzerland for outdoor activities
Rome, Italy with my school
Siena, Italy with my school
Venice, Italy for carnivale celebrations with a friend
Barcelona, Spain with a friend
Verona and Venice, Italy with my school
Prague, Czech Republic with friends
Manarola and Portovenere, Italy with friends

Paris, France for spring break
Budapest, Hungary for spring break
Vienna, Austria for spring break
Salzburg, Austria for spring break
Schwangau, Germany for spring break
Munich, Germany for spring break

Milan, Italy with my school for design week
Assisi, Italy for a solo pilgrimage on Good Friday
Cinque Terre, Italy to hike and see all five towns
Amalfi Coast, Italy (Sorrento, Capri, Positano, Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii) to experience the coast
Chianti, Italy for various excursions to horseback ride and taste wine

Various cabins in Minnesota and Wisconsin for weekends with friends
Ironwood, Michigan for our family reunion
Nisswa, Minnesota for our annual cabin week
San Diego, California to visit one of my best friends
South Bend, Indiana to visit a friend at Notre Dame
Madison, Wisconsin to visit a friend and celebrate Halloween
Omaha, Nebraska for my cousin’s birthday

2018

Boston, Massachusetts for my 22nd birthday
Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina for a family vacation after my graduation
Chicago, Illinois for a girl cousin weekend
Eau Claire, Wisconsin to visit a friend
Balsam Lake, Wisconsin for a cabin weekend with friends
Nisswa, Minnesota for our annual cabin week
New York, New York with friends