A passion for travel & photography

Growing up in West Virginia, my family didn’t travel often but I enjoyed every road trip, even if it wasn’t too far from home. Exploring the unknown and seeing new places was such a fun adventure. My love for travel was solidified by medical mission trips to Nicaragua and Costa Rica while I was in college. Later, in medical school, I would spend over a month doing medical work in Peru, and in residency, I traveled and treated patients in Honduras. These trips showed me how travel can enrich your life, allowing you to experience a new perspective and a new culture. Travel grounds me and brings the important things of life to the forefront- friends, family, and experiences. As an adult, I have been blessed with the ability to travel with my family, and for that I am sincerely grateful.

Photography is also a passion of mine, as I see photos as a way to savor a memory. Every time I look back on photos from a trip or event, I remember details that I would have otherwise forgotten about the place or the moment. The photos allow those moments to come alive and live on. Taking photos became extremely important to me when I had my children. As a young child, my family lost everything in a house fire, including many photos of me as a baby. The few photos that remain of me with my parents when they were younger are ones that I cherish. I knew I wanted to capture my children’s childhoods for posterity, so I took photos of many important moments in their lives while balancing living in those moments. I hope that my love for them shines through these images for their lifetimes. For privacy, I am limiting the photos that I share of them here, but I hope you enjoy the scenery that I do share.

In this blog, I am sharing our adventures with you. I hope our stories inspire you to visit new places. My advice would be not to try and recreate our trips, but to use them to envision and inspire your own. Remember to always enjoy the ride that is travel, the fun adventures as well as the mishaps, and to let yourself unplug and get lost.