Zion National Park
Last week I visited Zion National Park, and it was every bit as amazing as you’d expect it to be. I had no idea that it was the third most […]
New England Road Trip: Day 2
Picking up where we left off on the New England Road Trip. We planned day two to be a bit more relaxed than day one. There wasn’t as heavy a […]
New England Road Trip: Day 1
We arrived in Boston late last Thursday night. We were all beat from long days of work or school, so we got our rental car and headed straight to our […]
New England Road Trip in Snapchats
My friends and I returned home LATE Monday night / Tuesday morning from our four day road trip of New England. We had a BLAST! We visited Maine and Massachusetts […]
Day Trip: Chattanooga
Last month, my dad and I took a day trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Looking back on it, we should not have decided to go on the Sunday of Labor Day […]
Going to New England!
So, my friends and I are going to New England! We are most excited about the trip. True, we will miss the peak of the leaves changing, but that’s not […]
It Wouldn’t be a Cantrell Trip without Drama
Last weekend, I spent a little under 48 hours in Ohio with my sister, Payton. She had been at Oberlin College all summer working as an intern, and since she […]
Park Hoppers: Yes or No
Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando offer park hoppers that allow you to go from one park to another without any trouble. The price is higher but the reward is […]
Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon
Everyone knows of the giant hole in the middle of north Arizona: the Grand Canyon. Few people know of the Little Grand Canyon located in Georgia! Last month, Boy Friend […]
From the Diary: West Coast Road Trip
Summer 2013, my family took a four day road trip from Seattle, Washington to San Francisco, California. It was a group of 10 of us: me, mom, dad, sister, aunt, […]
Nightmare Situation: Bed Bugs
No one likes to stay in a place that doesn’t feel like home. Add bed bugs to that and the situation goes from unlikable to nightmarish. Last Saturday night, my […]
Civil War Re-Enactments
In the South we have this wonderful tendency to reproduce battles from the Civil War. We always show them as the event actually took place, but we strive to beat […]
Pike’s Peak Photo Blog
My aunt Joan and I went to Pike’s Peak in Colorado last month. It was a WONDERFUL day full of wandering around and freezing our butts off. Joan and I […]
Bugs and an Irish Girl
This is a column I wrote earlier this year for the Times-Georgian. Aiobhin (oh-veen) spent four days in the south. We drove around Carrollton, went to Jekyll Island, drove across […]
Cherry Blossom Festival – Washington DC
Earlier this year, April to be exact, I visited some friends in Washington DC to explore the Cherry Blossom Festival. We wandered through the National Mall looking for the perfect […]
Garden of the Gods
Last month, my aunt, Joan, and I hopped aboard a 7:00am flight to Denver, Colorado. We had a rental car lined up, a hotel reservation, and a train ticket to […]