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Find your balance of travel and home. (A San Francisco based blog)

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Destinations

Africa:

  • Morocco: Fes, Efrouz (Sahara), Meknes
  • Egypt: Cairo, Aswan, Luxor

Asia:

  • Thailand: Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Koh Tao, Koh Phi Phi, Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Lampang, Phrae, Nan
  • China : Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • Nepal: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Sauraha (Chitwan)
  • India: Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Kolkata, Varanasi, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ranakpur, Pushkar, Mumbai, Kochi, Munnar, Alappuzha, Trivandrum, Varkala, Neyyar Dam (Sivananda ashram.)
  • Vietnam: Hanoi, Saigon, Sapa, Mekong Delta, Halong Bay, Hue, Hoi An
  • Cambodia: Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Koh Rong, Battambang
  • Laos: Si Phan Don (4,000 Islands), Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Vang Vieng
  • Burma: Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan, Inle Lake, Mt. Kyaiktiyo (Golden Rock)
  • Indonesia: Ubud, Seminyak (Bali)
  • Turkey: Istanbul, Bodrum, Cappadocia, Pamukkale
  • Sri Lanka: Colombo, Kandy, Ella, Nuwara Eliya, Uda Walawe, Tangalle, Galle
  • Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Tsumago/Kiso Valley, Nara, Osaka, Miyajima, Kinosaki, Hakone, Nikko, Naoshima,  Koya-san, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Hakuba, Matsumoto, Kanazawa.

Europe:

  • Austria: Salzburg, Vienna, Graz
  • Bosnia/Herzegovina: Mostar
  • Croatia: Dubrovnik, Mali Ston, Split, Hvar, Trogir, Plitvice Lakes, Krka, Zagreb
  • Estonia: Tallinn
  • Finland: Helsinki
  • France: Paris, Nice, Eze, Villefrance-sur-mer, Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Honfleur, Mont Saint Michel, Balleroy, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Cap Ferret, Avignon, Cassis, Luberon, Saint-Remy-de-Provence
  • Germany: Munich and Bavaria, Frankfurt
  • Greece: Athens, Aegina, Santorini, Mykonos, Tinos, Paros
  • Hungary: Budapest
  • Iceland: Ring Road (around most of the country, many stops!) Reykjavik
  • Ireland: Dublin, Skerries, Enniskerry
  • Italy : Rome, Florence, Venice, Pisa, Siena, Orvieto, Sorrento, Capri, Naples, Pompeii, Padua, Verona, Lake Como, Milan, Bologna, Cinque Terre, Genoa, Cassino. Sicily: Catania, Etna, Taormina, Noto, Modica, Siracusa, Ragusa, Caltagirone, Cefalu, Palermo.
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands : Amsterdam
  • Portugal : Lisbon, Sintra
  • Slovenia: Ljubljana, Bled
  • Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Costa Brava, Granada, Sevilla, Vall de Boi, El Escorial, Toledo, Malaga, Alora, Cordoba
  • Switzerland: Lugano
  • United Kingdom: Edinburgh, London, Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool, Lake District
  • Vatican

Middle East:

  • Jordan: Amman, Aqaba, Wadi Rum, Petra (Wadi Musa), Dead Sea
  • Israel: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
  • Palestine: Bethlehem
  • Qatar: Doha
  • United Arab Emirates: Dubai

North America:

  • USA: California, Hawaii, New York, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Utah, Colorado, Washington, Washington D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Montana (28 states so far – about half!)
  • Mexico: Tulum, Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, Oaxaca
  • Cuba: Havana, Viñales, Trinidad, Playa Ancon, Cienfuegos
  • Canada: Vancouver, Whistler

Central America:

  • Guatemala: Lake Atitlan, Chicastenango, Antigua, Semuc Champey, Guatemala City, Tikal
  • Costa Rica: Santa Teresa, Montezuma

South America:

  • Colombia: Medellin, Guatape, Salento (where I was robbed at gunpoint,) Bogota (where I only saw the inside of the USA embassy as I tried to get home.)

Oceania:

  • Australia: Sydney
  • New Zealand: Auckland, Queenstown, Wellington, Taupo, Napier, Abel Tasman, Bay of Islands, Milford Sound, Fox/Franz Josef Glaciers.

Favorite Places

Top Ten Countries:
(subject to change 🙂 )

  • India
  • France
  • Japan
  • Cuba
  • New Zealand
  • Burma, Laos, Thailand (ok, all of SE Asia – by far my favorite region of the world)
  • Jordan
  • Croatia
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

I feel a soul connection to both India and France, fell completely in love with traveling in Cuba and SE Asia, was deeply moved by time in Jordan, Guatemala, and Nepal, and would welcome the chance to be in beautiful Croatia, New Zealand, or the U.K. (my heritage) anytime, any day. I also love Italy and Spain (but who doesn’t!) and lived in Barcelona as a student.
California, where I was born, continues to be my favorite place in the world. But many other spaces of the globe also have my heart…

Favorite Cities:

  • San Francisco
  • Paris
  • Bangkok
  • Havana
  • Barcelona
  • Rome
  • Tokyo
  • New Orleans
  • Istanbul
  • London

Other parts of the world that are especially special to me:

  • Bordeaux, France
  • Lake Como, Italy
  • Santorini, Greece
  • Catalunya, Spain
  • Kauai and the Big Island, Hawaii
  • Santa Barbara, California
  • Riviera Maya, Mexico
  • Rajasthan, India
  • Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala
  • Kerala, India
  • Sicily

And just for fun! Places I want to go most:
Patagonia (Chile/Argentina)
Peru
Queensland, Australia
Tanzania
Ethiopia
South Africa
Wyoming + Montana, USA
Maldives
Albania
Denmark
Galapagos
Oaxaca, Mexico
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I’m Anne! I spend part of my time traveling the world and the other part living in my soul city, San Francisco.

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