Author: Rachel-Jean Firchau
How to Spend a Long Weekend in South Central Alaska: A 4-Day Travel Guide
Unlike most places in the United States, Alaska is far, remote, and a bit tricky travel to. Even from Seattle, the closest possible big city in the US, a flight to Anchorage still rings in at more than 3 hours one way. But despite its remote location, over 1.5 million tourists travel to the 49th…
Road Trip Down Iceland’s Golden Circle Loop
Ask anyone who’s ever been to Iceland by way of Reykjavik, and one of the first things they’ll tell you they did while they were here was hit the road to embark on the Golden Circle loop. And, unlike some tourist traps that are obligatory yet in reality not worth the hype, the Golden Circle…
Checklist: 11 Things To Do The Day Before You Go On Vacation
As I write this, I am currently in Australia’s Gold Coast. This trip to Australia is the longest and furthest one I am taking all year, and because of this, the week leading up to my trip has been – as expected – a bit chaotic. There were a million things I needed to sort…
3 of the World’s Most Unique, Remote Hotels You Should Stay In
I love the electricity of being in the middle of a city. It’s what drove me to move from my home in Hawaii for Los Angeles almost 8 years ago, and it’s the reason I can’t get enough of places like New York, Seattle, and Reykjavik. But in the past few years, I’ve fallen deeply…
36 Hours in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona
It’s funny how when people ask you where in the world you’d like to travel, more often than not, we choose someplace on the opposite end of the earth. Suffice it to say, it’s easy to just blatantly forget about the destinations that are closest to us when it comes to planning out trips. For…