It finally happened 🙂 . After 10 years as a resident of Washington State, I am once again a New York resident. I previously lived in NYC from 2011 to 2015 and now I’m back baby!
Continue reading “I Became A NY Resident (Again): Real ID, Voting, Libraries, Healthcare and Taxes”
Last year I was on the search for the best over-ear headphones I could find. After a lot of research, polling y’all, and testing, I found them!
Well now it’s time to expand that search to earbuds, which up to this point I thought would never be for me. So let’s see what changed 🙂 .
Continue reading “The Best Budget Earbuds: Soundcore Space A40”
Half of 2025 is over, time has no meaning and I’m refusing to think about it 🙂 . June was a wild month filled with adventure, books, birds and some unfortunate sicknesses, but overall it was filled with a lot of love and laughter. So let’s see what I got up to in June.
Continue reading “The Month Of Machu Picchu: June 2025 Recap”
So remember when I wrote a post 7 years ago saying I was going to be carfree for life? Well this is a great example of why I usually try to “never say never.”
I never would have imagined that I would want to move close to my Partner’s family and as a result live in a rural town in Upstate NY, which unfortunately has no public transit and requires having a car. So here we are 🙂 . Continue reading “I Bought A Car! What I Learned As A First-Time Car Buyer”
My adventures in medical tourism continue! After enjoying my experiences with dentists in Italy, Argentina, and México, I finally explored Perú’s dental care. Continue reading “Medical Tourism: A $68 Dental Cleaning In Lima, Perú”
One of my dreams has always been to see bioluminescence. I saw it in Seattle once and also very briefly during my trip to the Great Barrier Reef in 2023, but I’ve never had a full experience with it.
After visiting Australia in 2023 I went to New Zealand and stayed in Auckland for a few nights. While there I discovered that they have tours to kayak at night to see this bioluminescence. However, it was historically windy while I was there and all the tours were cancelled. Continue reading “Review: Bioluminescence Kayak Tour Near Auckland, New Zealand”
Yes – “Settling Down-ish” 😉 . I won’t keep you in suspense. Let’s see what wild things I got up to this month!
Continue reading “The Month Of Settling Down(ish): May 2025 Recap”
Travel delays are never fun but recently, I was reflecting on why I went from someone who was almost furious when delays happened to now being a chill little cucumber. And I think it all stems from retirement and my new freedom of time and money. So let’s get into it and see why travel delays suck a lot less in retirement.
Continue reading “Travel Delays In Retirement: Surprisingly, Not A Big Deal”