I’m so excited that I got to hang out in Hawaii again! My brothers and I were invited to a family friend’s wedding on Oahu so we figured we’d make a trip out of it. My partner and I wanted to get scuba certified so we decided to come to Big Island first. Since Volcanos National Park is at elevation, we needed to come here first. So this was the trek we made on our very first full day.

My friends invited me on their college reunion trip that they do every year. This year, they decided to do it on the west coast at Lake Oswego, Oregon. That’s 15-20 minutes roughly speaking outside of Portland. I’ll always jump on the chance to visit the Pacific Northwest again! This post is about Pittock Mansion. It’s a big historic house sort of in the area of Washington Park which my partner and I had explored almost exactly 2 years previously.

Last day in Oaxaca! But don’t you worry, we still managed to eat ourselves into a coma. Yet another early day (Justin is likely regretting let me plan so much for this trip) as our plan was to meet our tour guide at 9 AM. We did the Club Tengo Hambre tour called “Oaxaca Street Food Essentials.” For some reason we thought it’d be a good idea to have coffee and breakfast first at Oaxaca En Una Taza and you’re probably wondering how we got to day five of this trip still thinking we’d need to eat anything before doing anything!