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jackie_travels
www.jackietravels.com
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A blog about travel, humor, & the blisters I sustain during my quests for adventure. I mention my cat bi-postly.
#52127 in All , #50 in General Travel

How to Rule at a Milwaukee Road Trip

Step 1: Stock up on supplies. There isn’t really anything that you can’t love about this landmark: Mars (probably our future home), Cheese (Cheese.), and Castle (CASTLE.) Step 2: Build up...

1 h ago

A Rebuttal to all of the “This place where I’m traveling is so awesome” Posts

I’m not currently in the middle of traveling anywhere. I’m at home. Normally this would really depress me, but my home situation is actually really adorable right now (just to give you an...

25 may 12

Vintage Travel Photo [Murder?] Mystery

During my time as one of the Communications Strategies interns at the hostel in downtown Chicago, I’ve gotten to partake in something I’ve wanted to experience ever since my love affair w...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

travel inspirations (think Thelma and Louise…but with less murder)

Generally I’m not much of a TAG YOU’RE IT person — the whole concept of “tag” stressed me out a lot as a kid. It took a lot of things I couldn’t really do and forc...

07 may 12

books & travel

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway “I may not be as strong as I think,” the old man said, “but I know many tricks and I have resolution.” “But are you strong enoug...

19 apr 12

How To Succeed in Bus Riding Across Europe (…if I add “Without Really Trying,” will Daniel Radcliff...

Pre-Travel From your childhood on, you will equate buses with freedom, because buses will mean one thing, and one thing only: field trips. School buses are novelties when you’re growing up, see...

08 apr 12

How to Overreact on a Plane, in an Airport, and elsewhere

You know that point at the end of the trip right before you’re supposed to board the plane home and you suddenly realize how completely exhausted you are, but instead of actually admitting how ...

05 mar 12

International Fat-Assery

*reposted from last year. I KNOW, but give me a break, February has been kicking my ass. Now, in honor of Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, I have decided to show you pictures of all the ways I have been ...

21 feb 12

books & travel

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote “Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a ...

19 feb 12

the post-travel slump routine

I have a slump routine. This routine is pretty much the same drill no matter what caused the slump: getting dumped, being unemployed, having nowhere to live, missing my cat, finishing a TV series on ...

02 feb 12 1 person likes this

books & travel

Excerpts from “Your Feet” Pablo Neruda When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. But I love your feet only because they walked ...

29 jan 12

staying on a boat in Gibraltar

As a rule, I am scared of almost everything — boats included. When the movie Titanic came out during my formative 9th year of life, it solidified that fear (as well as my love for Celine Dion)...

24 jan 12

“She liked Gibraltar. It was her third visit to the strange rock that housed an absurdly densely populated English town on the Mediterranean. Gibraltar was a place that was not like anywhere el...

16 jan 12

books & travel

“Laughter” Stuart Dybek “I knew a girl who laughed in her sleep.” photo of Martha Gellhorn, from here More books & travel: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers A...

15 jan 12

A welcome home poster that my friends Allison and Lauren made for me upon my return from my first travel adventure in high school, a People to People excursion in France and England. Still hangs on t...

12 jan 12

an evening at the Cold Green House, Lisbon, 2012

I don’t think I’d ever been to a green house before. Green houses aren’t really “travel destinations.” But for whatever reason, when I opened up my Lisbon Card info pack...

09 jan 12

“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be ‘realistic,’ cross that person off your invitation list.” John Eliot Tagged: inspirational quotes, paddle boats, prague photos, t...

07 jan 12

where you can find me this January

2012: I think I’m setting you up to fail. I’m starting off January with the following awesome itinerary, and there is absolutely no way that the rest of the year can compete with it: Toda...

04 jan 12

books & travel

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer “I imagined dozens of homes, some were magical (a clock tower with a stopped clock in a city where time stood still), some were mundane ...

02 jan 12

standard new year’s post.

[This is my 201o New Years post. I am reposting it because other than the fact that I now live in Chicago, not much has changed. After my trip to Europe, I am going back to Chicago with no job and no...

31 dec 11

chicago to los angeles by train, in pictures

Last week my sister took one look at these pictures and sighed. “You are so hipster,” she informed me. A few minutes ago she walked into the room, read that on my screen, and confirmed. T...

30 dec 11

before & after taking Amtrak across the country for 5 days: the after

1. Jump off the train and cough. You have forgotten what fresh air feels like. 2. Take a shower. A long shower. Shower for so long that you can sense the scowls of conservationists across the world. ...

28 dec 11

before & after taking Amtrak across the country for 5 days: the before

Later this afternoon, my train from Chicago, IL to Portland, OR will set off. My bags are haphazardly packed. I have checked my purse at least a dozen times within 2 minutes to make sure my passport ...

12 dec 11

how to make your Christmas list turn into money for your next trip

I have spent more time than is necessary clicking on every “Traveler’s Wish List” that pops up on Twitter. Everyone loves these lists even if they won’t openly admit it —...

08 dec 11

dear travel diary: Matisse Chapel

When I was studying in France a few summers ago, my class was given a tour of the chapel that Matisse designed for a convent of nuns in the French Riviera. This chapel was meant to show his appreciat...

03 dec 11

on not being lonely in Chicago

In January 2011, I moved across the country from Los Angeles to Chicago for no real reason. I had no friends here, no job waiting for me, no concept of winter. Most of my friends were living in Calif...

28 nov 11

books & travel

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P.D. James “The photograph told Cordelia nothing except, that for one recorded second at least, he had known how to be happy.” “Cordelia enjoyed clothe...

20 nov 11

travel inspiration: vintage Olympics posters

I love the Olympics. I want to go. That won’t be happening this summer, and so I am pouting. When I pout I often find myself on Google image search looking up whatever it is I can’t have,...

18 nov 11

south america as a looker

*part of the Memorize Earth series I’m a looker. I don’t mean that as in, “wow, that girl’s a looker!” but more like “wow, that girl looks at things a lot.” ...

15 nov 11

unemployment cartoon with giraffes

I want a giraffe. [cartoon via The New Yorker] Tagged: giraffes, the new yorker

09 nov 11

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