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jackie_travels
misadventuresoftravelgirl.blogspot.com
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One time I met David Sedaris and he correctly guessed that I am a Gemini, I have a cat, I do not have diabetes, and I had a wild Saturday night right before he met me. This guy knows what's up. Oh, and I travel.
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things you have been missing

...if you havent checked in with my new blog location at www.jackietravels.com:1. I find similarities between my life and a giraffe cartoon, which feels sad but also right (which just feels sad).2. I...

09 nov 11

im excited! be excited!

And thats because I have set up my new blog design at Wordpress, which you can view at http://jackietravels.com/. Woo! I havent yet set up Google Reader with this blog (help?), but you can currently ...

24 oct 11

in which I am unemployed and sitting in a cafe

I am in an almost ideal situation. I have about a 4 month break from my job, during which Ill be celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years; I will also be traveling across the cou...

20 oct 11

how to buy a plane ticket

1. Pick the city where youd like to go. Pick 5 other cities that youd also like to visit and pretend that they are realistic options.2. Start pricing out these trips using different and sometimes com...

14 oct 11

travel video by mood

Last month, the boyf and I ventured off to a bed and breakfast in Wisconsin, as some of you may recall. I have just recently purchased a flip camera and decided to take some video of the drive back h...

11 oct 11

the train nightmares

As many of you know, I currently work in the travel industry. I spend at least 8 hours a day, five or six days a week, advising different train routes and researching how to get from Dublin to Athens...

04 oct 11

featured

Hey guys, today I have an article featured over at a new travel magazine site that you should probably become obsessed with: Vagabundo Magazine. Brief summary: I am hassled by a gold-toothed French m...

01 oct 11

books & travel

The Razors EdgeW. Somerset MaughamSome of my most memorable conversations were shared with fellow travelers my own age, each of us boarders in a hostel in a foreign country for our own separate but s...

27 sep 11

1 girl, 1 seat, 4 days, good god.

Sometimes I get these ideas that I think are really great at the time. Sometimes they are really great at the time, and at many times afterwards, too. But sometimes they end up with me being stuck in...

19 sep 11

spoiler: I was at the wrong airport

In an ongoing effort to be the best girlfriend ever, I offered to pick up the boyf at the airport last night. Virgin Airlines has just recently come to Chicago, and he got a really cheap flight that ...

15 sep 11

books & travel

How Proust Can Change Your LifeAlain de Botton"There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness. Had we been placed on earth by a malign creator for the exclusive purpose of suf...

11 sep 11

easily entertained: disasters in photoshop edition

I like to play around with weird editing techniques with my travel photos. Most of the time the boyf thinks its "tacky," but I choose to believe that thats just because he is "blind to my...

08 sep 11

Scotlandiversary: Year One

So in the middle of writing an essay that I am attempting to finish while listening to French vocabulary play on in the background, I have suddenly realized that one year ago today, I was getting off...

06 sep 11

countries in which I have cried [no shame edition]

Somehow, several years ago, I painted a picture of myself in my head as this girl who never cries. I would congratulate myself on my inner strength and confidence, reassured that should I ever feel w...

01 sep 11 1 person likes this

books & travel

The Heart is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers"She was tired of hanging around with the kids. She would go to the library and look at pictures in the National Geographic. Photographs of all the for...

28 aug 11

to stick or not to stick conclusion: TO STICK!

Remember my post about these stickers, three people who were following my blog that far back? I had long ago resigned myself to a lonely life without these stickers, but then my family recently showe...

25 aug 11

bed & breakfast: things that are winning version

5 minute flash thunderstorm immediately upon entering Wisconsin: 1Us: 0Scenery during drive through Wisconsin: 10*Scenery during drive through Arizona: 10Scenery during drive through Missouri: 7Scene...

21 aug 11

b&b: photographic version

16 aug 11 1 person likes this

travelgirl does b&b

Up to this point, I have been very inexperienced in the art of the weekend getaway. Whenever I get away, its usually quite far away, much too far to fit into one weekend. Usually the flight there and...

13 aug 11

books & travel

"Poem," from Lunch PoemsFrank OHaraInstant coffee with slightly sour creamin it, and a phone call to the beyondwhich doesnt seem to be coming any nearer."Ah daddy, I wanna stay drunk many...

10 aug 11

from my album: the Danube River, via Budapest

Did you know that the Danube River is the one that divides Budapest into Buda, the old city, and Pest, the newer city?Im hungover. A fun fact is all I can muster up for you today.

08 aug 11

in which I try to learn French before you do, part 1

[Thank you everyone for your kind words about the new design! Lindsay at ScenicGlory is my hero]In high school, I was really good at French class. Language classes have always come really easily to m...

05 aug 11

travelgirl gets a big girl blog

Blog,Im sorry I neglected your design for so long and tortured you with my dozens of poorly photoshopped headers, awkward spaces that I couldnt figure out how to get rid of in the sidebar, fonts that...

04 aug 11

weird things that happened in the hemingway house: finale

For some reason, once I entered the Hemingway house and listened to the tour guide talk about how Hemingways mom used to dress him up like a girl to make him and his sister look like twins, I felt od...

25 jul 11

memorizing the world: Too Hot to Do Anything Else edition

How are we doing with memorizing Earth? Lately its been too hot in Chicago for me to do anything besides sit inside with my air conditioning, my iced chai latte, and my computer.*I take comfort in th...

19 jul 11

from my album: giverny

If you arent blind, you probably know by now what a Monet painting looks like. Last summer I was lucky enough to visit Monets home and garden at Giverny in northern France. Monet designed the entire ...

17 jul 11

unreasonable train routes that people ask me to research for them at work.

Sometimes at work, customers will ask me to research train routes that, quite frankly, do not make sense. Travelers and travel agents alike make unreasonable demands, becoming frantic that their perf...

14 jul 11

weird things that happened at the hemingway house, part 2

Here is the Hemmingway Bistro, located across the street from the Hemingway Museum and down the street from the Hemingway House in Oak Park, Chicago. Youd think its location would have been all the s...

12 jul 11

wilder shores of love. april 25, 1928 - july 5, 2011

As most of you know, I hated Vienna the first time I passed through. I was just leaving Amsterdam, where I had taken cover in a flower market during a rainstorm one afternoon, had spent a few hours f...

07 jul 11

weird things that happened in the hemingway house, part 1

The boyf and I decided to celebrate this long weekend by heading out to a suburb of Chicago called Oak Park, which contains two very interesting landmarks: Frank Lloyd Wrights Unity Temple, and the h...

04 jul 11

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