It’s been a while since I updated this blog but 2020 has brought on lots of life changes.

Shortly after returning from our world travel Christian and I moved from NYC to Wisconsin for six months. What was a six-month adventure for my career turned into a permanent move and we traded in NYC’s landscapes for Badgers, Brats, and Cheese Curds.  

Shortly after the move we re-focused on our careers and spent time exploring the midwest, taking one international and well-derserved trip to the Dominican Republic. But by the close of that year, we had filed divorce papers, ending our seven-year relationship, and finally accepting the need to go our separate ways, cordially.

We spent Christmas apart and I took my first divorcee trip to New Zealand, to take the time I needed to heal from a serious life change. We split everything and moved into different apartments. I was prepared to spend this year rediscovering myself and using those flight miles to travel. I went to NYC, Memphis, and booked a flight with girlfriends to Jamacia for the summer.

I found myself solo for the first time since 2012 in the middle of a global pandemic.

In March of 2020, I packed up my life from the past seven years and moved from a three-bedroom to a one-bedroom sunny apartment in the suburbs. The same weekend I moved, with the help of a girlfriend, as we sat on the floor eating Red Lobster take out and drinking wine as my stuff was moved in around me, the United States completely shut down. 

I found myself solo for the first time since 2012 in the middle of a global pandemic.  I had no idea that the little light-filled one-bedroom with the big windows overlooking the man-made pond below would be my sanctuary for the next year as I traversed it’s four corners and enjoyed summer spritzers, wine, coffee, hot cider, and egg nog on my balcony. 

It was just Rascal and me as I felt the grief with the rest of the world. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. 

Nine months after lockdown and life feels different, more hopeful with a vaccine, more open for new possibilities, and more joyful with new connections. 

I’m ready to write again. There are so many stories, pieces of advice, and pictures to share from the places I have yet to write about. Travels to Iceland, India, Zambia & Zimbabwe, Germany, New Zealand, and the Dominican Republic. Domestic trips I’ve taken and ones I have planned. 

This website has gone from Bucket List Couple to Life Changes, Travel More. It will continue to change as I grow, change, and live life to the fullest. I hope this can be a place where folks can find themselves on a page or at least make planning a big trip, taking a solo trip, and making a life change less scary. Thanks for being with us on this journey and I am looking forward to taking you on mine.