by Jordan | May 23, 2016 | Featured, North America, South Carolina, United States
The night before our wedding the weather forecast for the next day was fluctuating significantly, which was no small point for us since we were set to be wed outdoors under a gigantic oak tree. Okay, so not just any gigantic oak tree, but the legendary Angel Oak tree...
by Jordan | Jun 4, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Switzerland, The First Grand Adventure
Our hike to the top of Üetliberg this afternoon was one for the history books. I’d done a little research on a trail called the Denzlerweg beforehand that could get us there, but we were still mostly winging it. Enchanting is the most fitting word to describe...
by Jordan | May 27, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Switzerland, The First Grand Adventure
Doris, Thomas, Sylea, and Marco were kind enough to take us on a day trip to Lucerne, with the aim of going to the top of Mount Pilatus. Lucerne, like everywhere else we’ve been so far in Switzerland, was absolutely beautiful. There’s something very...
by Jordan | May 15, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Milan is a very charming place, but in a very different way from the other Italian cities we’ve visited on our trip. We really owe a huge debt of gratitude to our friend Camilla for so graciously hosting us and showing us around. Our first afternoon in Milan we...
by Jordan | May 6, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Cinque Terre, meaning “five lands” in Italian, is a national park area along the Mediterranean composed of five small, stunning cliffside villages. And on April 28th we left Tuscany for a short visit in this new destination in Liguria. We arrived to stay...
by Jordan | Apr 28, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Our train left Florence at 5:50 AM, and naturally the early morning went by faster than we’d anticipated and we found ourselves running through the dark streets to make it to the station. Good pre-dawn cardio I suppose. Most of the two and a half hour ride was...