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A Year of Races: The Results

By on April 8, 2013 in list, postgrad

Tweet When I got home from Australia, I needed something to throw myself into. I wasn’t as active walking to work, so I signed up for a race my friend Elizabeth was doing. From there, I made it my goal to run one race every month for an entire year. I hate running but I made [...]

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25 Things to Do Before Turning 25

By on July 8, 2012 in birthday, list, postgrad

Tweet I officially turned 24 years old today. I’ve been doing birthday lists for two years now and I’ve gotten more accomplished each and every year. This year I crossed off 11 items from the 24 Before 24 List: bungy jumped (#4), scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef (#5), gave blood for the first time [...]

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24 Things to Do Before Turning 24

By on July 8, 2011 in birthday, list, postgrad

Tweet I am twenty-three years old today. I had a failure of a year if you’re comparing this list to the one I wrote this time last July. I crossed off only 5 items (couchsurfing, going on a spontaneous trip, meeting 5 blog friends, going on a solo trip and learning to budget, in case [...]

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Lucky 7: The Best and Worst of Caroline in the City

By on July 6, 2011 in blog, links, list, travel, twitter

Tweet In case you’ve been living under a blogosphere rock, TripBase has started this web chain letter called My 7 Links to celebrate two years of their blog. One blogger tags five, those five tag five and so on. It was only a matter of time before I received said chain letter (but this one [...]

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Gifts for the Traveler in Your Life

By on November 26, 2010 in Christmas, list, travel

TweetIf you saw last year’s holiday gift guide post “Travel Book Christmas List,” I’ve got a bigger and better one for you this year. There’s something for every type of traveler in your life. And if you buy any of the items from my Amazon aStore, you will contribute to my travel fund! For the [...]

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23 Things to Do Before Turning 23

By on July 27, 2010 in list, postgrad, RTW, travel

Tweet I recently had my 22nd birthday (July 8) and it was a pretty uneventful one (just antiquing and a nice dinner, which was fine by me), so I want to make sure this is a year to remember. Andi of My Beautiful Adventures (who I finally met in person!) inspired this list with her own [...]

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Bon Voyage! [aka the Packing List]

By on May 25, 2010 in backpacking, list, packing, RTW, travel

Tweet The mess that is my room I know I am the most insane list maker ever. I have them for everything. But travelers seem to be really proud of their packing lists, especially for RTW journeys. I am going to the other side of the world and back (so not really round, I suppose) and will [...]

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The Atlanta List

By on February 23, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, links, list

Tweet Oh yes, I have one of these too. My mom bought me every Atlanta area magazine (in hopes of convincing me to move home to work for one of them) and they had a lot of lists of things to do. I marked AM for Atlanta Magazine. Here are my faves: Climb Stone Mountain (AM #1) [...]

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Save an Animal, Kiss a Cougar

By on February 8, 2010 in Charleston, friends, list

Tweet Bethany and I at the basketball game In case you were wondering, I checked #3 off my Charleston list. We won our homecoming game against Samford! Let’s hope we can keep it up against the Citadel tonight. One of my oldest friend’s mom has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. I know [...]

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The Charleston List

By on February 3, 2010 in Charleston, essentials, food, list, travel

Tweet Inspired by both Sara Dobie’s list and the list created by my friend Rebecca before she left Charleston (in which I first visited Bowen’s Island Restaurant), I am  writing a post on the things I must do before I move away. It’s really sad to think about, but I’m doing my best to be a tourist [...]

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