There are lots of reasons why I keep coming back to California. Since my first trip to San Francisco in the early 90s with my parents, I have traveled to California nine times – once with my parents, once with…
Discoveries & Reviews: Perfect Travel Nail Polish
Just to get this out of the way first: I am not affiliated with Barry M., I don’t get any compensation for this review, it’s all my very own opinion, my own photos, and I even paid for the little…
Looking Back: Traveling 2015
Wherever you look these days social-media-wise, you just can’t avoid those ubiquitous “Looking back on 2015” posts, so I thought it’s time for one of my own. I proudly present: Looking back on 2015: Travel Edition 2015 was a pretty…
I did it – I wrote my very first guest post!
One of my very favorite travel websites, Her Packing List, offers opportunities for readers to write guest post, for example gear reviews or packing lists. As I have a serious obsession with luggage, I didn’t have to think twice about…
Why Heathrow Made Me Vow To Travel Carry-On Only
On our most recent trip, we got stranded at Heathrow Airport. For two days. It all started with a delay in Glasgow, on our way home from a two-week vacation in England and Scotland. We had a pretty tight schedule,…
Top 5 Reasons To Love Islay
As you can probably guess from the title, I fell hard for a small Scottish island. Very hard, actually. We first traveled to Islay in August 2014, one station on a two-week road trip through Scotland. We spent just…
Double Rainbows & Feeling Anti-Social About Social Media
My original plan was to have Jetpack publish each and every post I write here to my brand-new Facebook page and my equally brand-new Twitter. Well, turns out Jetpack has different plans. I definitely am no techie, my usual approach…
It’s alive!
My brand-new blog is born, and even though it is still a tiny little thing, I am quite confident it will do its older sibling, mostly German willruth.rocks, proud by being its English-speaking sidekick. While willruth.rocks is the reincarnation of…