Welcome! Is Blogging Dead? What in the WORLD am I doing here?

In the 1960s, young adults were searching to find the meaning of life and in the 2000s young adults

are searching for careers that will make them the most money (while trying to work the least amount

of hours- I can say this because I’m a millennial). Why am I telling you this, you may wonder? While I

find it fascinating what motivates mankind, I also think we have lost the focus of what we are all

running this rat race for.

The bones of this blog started forming in the fall of 2018. I had a template and I thought it was the

perfect time to start. I had even shot some pictures to announce it on Instagram. But starting

something new is way harder than throwing a few ideas together and celebrating with confetti

poppers. To give you some context, I had just finished business school with a focus on

entrepreneurship and I wanted to do BIG things. Thoughts and dreams were swirling in my mind and

I honestly had no idea where to go next. I wanted to start a blog to compile all of the things I had

been working on over at my full time hobby, Instagram. I bought a template, domain name, and

signed on to Blogger to give it a go. Then I hit my first roadblock. What’s a widget? And my second.

How do I get things to format on this thing? And my third. Why won’t my domain name that I pay

$12/year for work? I am TERRIBLE at all things tech. I always have been. I cried every day of my

mandatory freshman programming class. So, instead of doing some research and digging in to

figure out all of these mystical blog terms, I left the tabs open on my computer for months and then

when my computer closed everything during a software update, never opened them again.

Fast forward to over a year later. A lot has changed in a year. I found out that the military was

moving us to Germany and we have since arrived! The job search is going pretty slowly and so what

better way to fill my time, than with writing. My last google search before writing this post was, “Is

blogging dead in 2019?”. I found that it completely depends on your end goal. Do you want to

become blogger famous? It won’t happen this year. Or maybe next year, or the year after that. Or

maybe ever. Do you want free stuff? You will have to work for it. Do you think what you are writing is

valuable even if no one reads it? This is the yes, that invigorated me to fumble through the tech

enough to publish post #1.

My hopes for this space is for me to share some of the ways I’ve tackled travel planning in Europe,

to show you my style hacks, tips, and tricks, and to be real with you guys. I am living on a real

person’s budget friends!!! I follow FAR too many people on social media that are living a luxury

brand life and I want you to know that you can have a KILLER, Instagram worthy vacation without

losing your life savings to do it. I am spending hours and hours planning trips, where to stay, what to

eat, and how to get around, so, I want you to benefit from that on your next trip. If I liked something I

did, I want to make sure you know about it so planning is if nothing else a little bit easier for you. If I

find the booties that are cute AND don’t leave blisters, I want you to know about them. And if I’m

lonely, I know there are other women out there feeling the same way as me, so I want this to a space

to combat that and WIN, instead of growing bitter and ultimately more isolated.

I have almost nothing figured out. How often will I post? I have A LOT of ideas so I'm hoping for at

least once a week, maybe two! So, stay tuned and if you've made it this far, thank you for reading

my first post <3