Thyra Travels: A Jungle Christmas
Way back before Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the travel community, there was a group of international travelers who all found themselves in the same jungle at the same time. The place was Tayrona National Park in the north of Colombia, at a small hostel called Journey. Over the holidays, the travelers became a close-knit family, watching movies on old mattresses…
Home for Thanksgiving
USA USA USA! As I stood waiting in the snow for the airport bus that would take me home, I started to question my decision-making skills. Why did I decide to come back to the Midwest in November? Seeing snow for the first time in almost two years was thrilling but it was hard to enjoy the experience with numb…
Grandiose Vienna
I spent less than a week in Vienna, a quick visit before flying back to Barcelona for my flight to Chicago (the horror, the anxiety!). Originally, I wanted to spend two weeks in Austria, hiking in the west before heading east. Snow and cold weather changed my plans and I shortened my visit to just Vienna, excited to see some…
Thyra Travels: Buda What? Budapest
After my short weekend in Prague, I took a long bus ride to spend a short week in Hungary! I had originally planned to spend my last two weeks in central Europe just in Austria, I am not one to “country-hop”. However, subzero temperatures and forecasts of snow in West Austria motivated me to take the ride to Budapest. I…
