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What NOT to do in Croatia: Biggest Mistakes Travelers Make

Croatia
City Beach in Dubrovnik: A Long Beach filled with hundreds of people, up against clear turquoise water. In the background is the old City of Dubrovnik, edged with walls and topped with orange roofs.

Croatia is one of my favorite destinations on the planet. I’ve explored the country in depth and consider myself a Croatia expert. It’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful and an absolutely divine place to spend the summer! Which is why it drives me crazy when I see travelers making big mistakes in Croatia — mistakes that I’ve learned …

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Solo Female Travel in the Florida Keys

Blog
Kate wears a bright blue knee-length 50s housewife style dress and has long blonde straight hair, standing in front of the red, black, and yellow stone monument marking the southernmost point in the continental United States.

What’s it like to travel alone in the Florida Keys? I absolutely love it! If you’re looking for a tropical escape with warm temperatures and beaches, as well as cool activities and a quirky local culture, I bet you’d love the Keys, too. The Florida Keys are one of my favorite US travel destinations. These …

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Moving Your Luggage Abroad with My Baggage: Review

Blog
A pile of three suitcases and a large box, covered with shipping labels.

When you move overseas, how do you send your luggage to your new home? This is something that I had to deal with recently, with my move from the United States to the Czech Republic. There was a time when the vast majority of my belongings fit into one backpack — a time when I …

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AK Monthly Recap: January 2021

Monthly Recap
Kate poses for a selfie in a snowstorm with giant flakes in her hair and on her black jacket. She wears a black face mask with multicolor hearts on it and smiles. Behind her are a tree covered with snow, some park benches, and pastel orange, green, and yellow homes in the distance.

Welcome to the dark months. January is dreary and cheerless under normal circumstances; I knew that it would be even tougher during the pandemic, especially since we’re still under the strictest lockdown in the Czech Republic. And so I checked in with myself. Was I doing okay, this far into a pandemic? Yes. I’m okay. …

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The ABSOLUTE Best Things to Do in Oaxaca, Mexico

Blog, Mexico
Indigenous women dancing in brightly colored dresses in front of the brightly lit cathedral underneath a blue sky in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Looking for the best things to do in Oaxaca? I’ve got you covered! Oaxaca is one of my favorite places in Mexico, and I think it’s one of the most special cities in Latin America. Oaxaca (pronounced wa-HA-ca) ticks all the boxes — it’s an incredibly beautiful city, it’s an endlessly interesting city; it’s large …

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Your First Post-COVID Trip Should Be to Croatia

Blog, Croatia
View of Hvar Town from the Spanish Fortress: a view from above, you see a small harbor surrounded with white buildings topped with orange roofs. In the distance are the green Pakleni Islands.

At some point, we will take our first post-COVID trips. Maybe it will be in summer 2021. Maybe it will be a bit later than that. But with vaccines being distributed in greater numbers, post-COVID travel is on its way. Do we know what traveling after COVID is going to be like? Not really! Through …

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AK Monthly Recap: December 2020

Blog, Monthly Recap
Kate wears a bright pink sweater and lies on her side, holding her little gray tabby kitten, Lewis.

We did it! 2020 has come to an end! When I wrote my last monthly update, I wrote that we were leaving lockdown in Prague. And we did…for two weeks. Now, we’re back in the situation that dominated November: restaurants are closed, cafes serve coffee out their front doors, non-essential shops are closed, and we …

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My Worst Travel Moments of 2020

Best of the Year, Blog
Kate standing outside in a hoodie as snowflakes land in her hair. She shrugs and holds one hand up as if to say, "Can you believe this?"

I thought that 2016 was bad. This was worse — SO many times worse, universally worse. The year that will be written about forever as the dumpster fire of the early 21st century. We’re going to look back at 2020 as the year when everything fell apart. But even in the year that brought us …

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9 Reasons Why I Can’t Wait to Return to Riga, Latvia

Blog, Latvia
A narrow street in Riga lined with orange and pink buildings.

When you ask me where to go in Europe that’s a cool city to visit for a few days — somewhere a bit off the beaten path, but not TOO off the beaten path — that’s when I start talking about Riga, Latvia. As a Latvian-American, I have a soft spot for Riga. In 2015 …

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My Favorite Books of 2020

Best of the Year, Blog

This year of reading was a bit of a slow burn. For awhile, it seemed like I hadn’t read many books that truly grabbed me. Then in the final third of the year, I kept getting hit over and over with fabulous book after fabulous book! So far I’ve read 52 books in 2020 — …

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Kate
At age 26, I quit my job to travel the world alone. I spent six fantastic months in Southeast Asia and turned my travel blog into a full-time business. Nine years later, I'm still traveling -- 83 countries and 7 continents! My goal is to show YOU how you can travel the world on your own -- easily, safely, and adventurously. Read more here.

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Top 10 Most Wanted Destinations

1. Brazil
2. Ethiopia
3. Sardinia
4. Galapagos
5. Crete
6. Israel
7. New Zealand
8. Hawaii
9. Greenland
10. Peru

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  • Moving Your Luggage Abroad with My Baggage: Review
  • AK Monthly Recap: January 2021
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