I began traveling at age six with a trip to Virginia in my father's Piper Cub. It was the first time I saw snow and where I got my first dog, who I aptly named Piper.

After that I never stopped. Any money I saved up went towards plane tickets and hostels. At sixteen I did a home exchange in Valencia, Spain inciting my love of Spain. I've been back three different times, including a semester long study abroad in college. While there I did a brief tour of Europe including Italy, Prague, Paris, and London. The next year I made friends with exchange students from Manchester and Paris and made my way back over the pond to visit those cities for a couple months.

By 2007 I was anxious to explore the rest of my own country and set off on the Great North American Road Trip spanning Orlando, FL to Vancouver, BC. This was when I fell in love with the Pacific Northwest, specifically Portland, OR, and made it a goal to move out there.

My most recent trip was to South Africa to cheer on Spain at the World Cup (Hooray for Spain!) Now that I have spent all my travel money on that trip, I'm keeping it closer to home and just taking trips to the Oregon coast and mountains as well as Seattle and Vancouver.

I also do travel writing and photography and my photos have been exhibited as well as published in Everywhere magazine. Check out my travel reviews and become my friend on Yelp and give my Portland daily city photo blog a look.