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Caroline in the Everglades

By on May 22, 2013 in backpacking, cheap, Florida, hostels, travel

Tweet Between four days at a hip but pricey hostel in South Beach Miami and four days in the Florida Keys (more on both later), I spent one night in the Florida City/Homestead area. It’s the jumping off point for exploration of the Everglades National Forest, one of only two types of these wetlands in [...]

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Introducing the #Tweet2Toronto Journey

By on May 20, 2013 in backpacking, blog, Canada, Charlotte, cheap, North America, North Carolina, tbex, Toronto, travel, USA, Washington DC

Tweet via peo pea Call me a glutton for pain, but I seem to have an attraction to long overland journeys. My family and I drove up the entire east coast of the United States to Maine and back. I took a Greyhound bus all the way up the east coast of Australia, from Sydney [...]

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Photo Essay: Cats of the Hemingway House

By on May 17, 2013 in Florida, Key West, travel, USA

Tweet Key West is a special little island. It’s the kind of place where presidents, movie stars and writers can exist in relative peace, away from the prying eyes of the mainland. It’s one of many reasons that Ernest Hemingway made a life here in the 1930s. Hemingway, known for his books A Farewell to [...]

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Travel Writing Round Up [May 2013]

By on May 7, 2013 in jobs, travel, writing

Tweet If you saw the last few editions of Travel Writing Round Up, welcome back! There are a lot of great opportunities this month, so I hope you will take full advantage of them. A lot are repeats from last month as well, but new posts are denoted with stars. I have checked all the links [...]

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The Best Jobs to Save for Travel

By on April 10, 2013 in jobs, savings, travel

TweetSaving for your trip can be a long process, especially if you don’t want to commit to a full-time job. I’ve managed to work part-time jobs to save up for adventures for the last three years, all in different fields. You need to find a job that will help you save for your adventure while [...]

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Travel Writing Round Up [April 2013]

By on April 3, 2013 in jobs, travel, writing

TweetIf you saw the last few editions of Travel Writing Round Up, welcome back! There are a lot of great opportunities this month, so I hope you will take full advantage of them. A lot are repeats from last month as well, but new posts are denoted with stars. I have checked all the links to [...]

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Munich’s BMW Visitor’s Center

By on March 29, 2013 in Europe, Germany, Munich, museums, tours, travel

Tweet While many of my days in Munich were nice and sunny, one in particular was rainy and miserable. Christine and I were looking for something to do and ended up at the BMW Welt Visitor’s Center, one of the city’s top attractions. BMW was founded here in 1917 and the company recently opened a [...]

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The Best Study Abroad Resources

By on March 25, 2013 in backpacking, student, travel

Tweet One of my regrets from college is that I never studied abroad. I went back and forth about it, but realized I wouldn’t be able to focus on the actual “study” portion of the equation, instead getting travel A.D.D. with so many destinations at my disposal. In the end, I decided to travel with [...]

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Four Years of Caroline in the City

By on March 20, 2013 in birthday, blog, tbex, travel

TweetThis blog has been around for as long as a presidential term or as long as I was in college. It’s almost old enough to head off to kindergarten. When I started Caroline in the City, it was 2009. I was in my junior year of college looking for a diversion after a breakup. I [...]

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Travels with Tea

By on March 13, 2013 in travel

TweetEvery place I visit, I love to try a local blend of tea. I like tea in nearly every variety (I can’t get over the chunks in bubble tea) and have found some varieties that are worth lugging home in my backpack. While I grew up on sweet tea, made cold with plenty of sugar, [...]

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