Travel Diary - USA!

Tomorrow it will be ONE WHOLE year since I returned home from my three weeks in the USA - pretty crazy right? 

I'm one of those people that collects a whole bunch of random stuff whilst traveling to stick in my travel diary - so I thought I'd share some of my memories with you guys.

 Yes - this is a bag tag from my flight to NYC! How many times in my life will I get to fly into JFK?

 When we visited Coney Island there were amazing vintage postcards - I had to buy one for myself.

 I did the circle cruise whilst in NYC - we saw some amazing views of the city and of course I had a photo with the Statue of Liberty.

 When I was visiting Coney Island Voltar told my fortune - you know, like in the movie "Big".

 I kept my bus ticket from San Francisco - because I'm a total nerd. 

 When I was in San Francisco my friend Val and her girlfriend Jessi took me out to a Chinese restaurant and we had fortune cookies!

 Ok so maybe I LIKE buying postcards for myself - this one is from the amazing and completely gross Mutter Museum.

 My rail pass from when I stayed in Philadelphia with Meg!

 Alicia and I had buggy ride with a driver called Earl in Amish Country.

 I took a greyhound bus!

We stopped off at amazing place - it was more than a store, more than a cafe - it was Dutch Haven! I had my first even whoopie pie here.

 Remember that one time I went to Disney World?

 I fulfilled one of my childhood dreams by visiting Ripley's Believe it or Not in San Francisco and it was every bit as gross and tacky as I had hoped!

Visiting the USA was pretty amazing, not just because of the things I saw - but because I had the chance to meet up with so many of my friends from the big country.

As for my next adventure? Well as it turns out its just around the corner and this time Rich is coming too! In late June we are leaving for a two week adventure in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia! It's pretty exciting stuff (I am SO looking forward to the holiday).

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend xoxox

Travel Diary 2013

I booked a trip to the USA last year to visit some friends and also to have some fun travel times - its felt like this holiday is FOREVER away for such a long time that I haven't thought about it that much (apart to tell people some of the things I'd like to do when I visit) but I realised earlier this week the trip is now LESS than a month today. HOLY CRAP! I better do some planning. 

Over Christmas I picked up a travel diary - I have to admit, if I'm traveling with Rich often a travel diary doesn't happen. Rich has an incredible memory and also is basically a human GPS, so I never feel anxious about getting lost or being late when I'm with him.

When I'm traveling alone however, its a totally different matter! I have to write down where I am each day and when I leave and my flight details. I always freak out I'm going to forget what date it is an miss an essential flight. Here's a few photos of the travel diary I took on my trip to Kuala Lumpur/Phuket/Singapore in Jan/Feb last year. I even wrote down details on how I was going to get to my hotel in Singapore (I get lost easily!).

I decided it's now time to start creating my May 2013 travel diary - I've been chasing up contact details of friends I'll be staying with over the past week or so and I'm going to start adding all my flight details and add a few to do lists to the diary over the next week or so. I picked up this diary from typo - its a light travel diary and has plenty of room to record what you're up to each day as well as make lists of things you want to do on your travels. I think I might make a wee pouch for it though - that way I can carry around my travel diary with the city guides and other maps and what not I pick up on the way.

Hope you're all having a great weekend xoxox