I must admit, I'm feeling a little cliche starting a travel blog. I mean, doesn't everyone have a travel blog these days? My friends have been urging me to write about the places I've been and the things I've done for awhile, but I didn't want to be "just another travel blogger". Except here I am... starting a blog. About travel. But maybe it will be more than that. We'll just have to wait and see.
About Me:
My name is Sara. I'm 31 and I live in Minneapolis, in a part of downtown called the North Loop. It's full of lofts and brewpubs and brick streets and it's pretty awesome. I walk to work. I love coffee and beer and happy hour and brunch. I dig guys with beards. I spend a lot of time listening to Hootie and the Blowfish radio on Pandora. I get the paper every Sunday but hardly ever read it. I always have plenty of booze but never enough mixers. (Seriously, someone bring over some tonic.) I believe in the Oxford comma. I love lazy weekends and the smell and sound of rain. I believe in trying anything once.
My love of travel and wanderlust are gifts from my mother. She passed away unexpectedly in May 2013. It was just the two of us. Us against the world. She and I moved all around when I was a kid, exploring the US as we went. She sent me to Europe twice before getting her own passport; we went to Paris for her first trip across the pond in January 2005. There was no stopping her after that. In the next 7 years, we went to Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Egypt, Spain, Morocco, Brazil, Kenya, and Ecuador. Each trip taught us things about ourselves and each other that I don't think you can learn any other way. We got lost and sneaked into national monuments and got robbed and chased by a lion. We yelled at each other and laughed at and with each other and faced our fears together. We kissed giraffes and ate weird things and drank too much wine. It was amazing, and I am thankful for every single second of it.
About this blog:
I'm not hoping to turn this into a source of income, or to gain a giant following, or really much of anything. I'm hoping to jot down my experiences and memories and turn this into something of a journal for myself. For the moment, I can't plan much more than weekend getaways - but I know that even a short time exploring a new place does wonders for the soul.
So... The Weekend JetSet. Let's be adventurers!
