travel Archives • Choosing Figs Neurotic as hell. Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:34:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 So 2021 happened. I guess. https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/ https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:34:35 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98093 I saw this meme going around the other day. It was this photo of Bernie Sanders at the Biden inauguration, slumped on a chair in a face mask and mittens that went viral around the time it was taken. But this time the meme said,...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/feed/ 3 It’s good to see you excited about something again. https://choosingfigs.com/its-good-to-see-you-excited-about-something-again/ https://choosingfigs.com/its-good-to-see-you-excited-about-something-again/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2019 02:04:45 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=95175 “It’s good to see you excited about something again.” When I started planning my summer road trip, that’s what I started hearing from everyone, “It’s good to see you excited about something again.” And, I mean, I was excited. It had been over a year...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/its-good-to-see-you-excited-about-something-again/feed/ 1 38 things I’ve done in my life. https://choosingfigs.com/38-things-ive-done-in-my-life/ https://choosingfigs.com/38-things-ive-done-in-my-life/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:42:13 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=92940 If you haven’t noticed, I’m a list maker. I have my weekly to-do list full of tasks for my blogs and my personal life. I have my life list of all the things I want to do in my life. I have my 40 by...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/38-things-ive-done-in-my-life/feed/ 2 What to do at the Wisconsin State Fair https://choosingfigs.com/what-to-do-at-the-wisconsin-state-fair/ https://choosingfigs.com/what-to-do-at-the-wisconsin-state-fair/#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:16:28 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=77538 Two weeks ago, I had no idea what to do at the Wisconsin State Fair. Or, I guess, any state fair. I’d never been to one before and only had a vague idea of what to expect: farm animals, carnival rides, and a lot of...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/what-to-do-at-the-wisconsin-state-fair/feed/ 3 New York. State of Mind. https://choosingfigs.com/new-york-state-of-mind/ https://choosingfigs.com/new-york-state-of-mind/#respond Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:59:31 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=75902 It had been two years since I last took a vacation. Two years since I boarded a plane. Two years since I left Illinois, the Chicagoland area, at all. I hardly believed it myself when I went to write that in an Instagram caption three...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/new-york-state-of-mind/feed/ 0 Travel photos that belong somewhere. https://choosingfigs.com/photos-belong-somewhere/ https://choosingfigs.com/photos-belong-somewhere/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:42:03 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=18124 When I began my ’round the world trip in 2011, I shared everything. I blogged almost daily, documenting nearly every move I made. Every country. Every city. Every meal. Every day. Actually, that’s how I blogged in general before I ever even started traveling. I’d...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/photos-belong-somewhere/feed/ 3 Cats Around the World https://choosingfigs.com/cats-around-world/ https://choosingfigs.com/cats-around-world/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:01:56 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=54651 Last year, I went on date to see the movie Kedi at The Music Box here in Chicago. Kedi, in Turkish, simply means “cat,” and the film documents the cats in Istanbul who rule the streets and seem, all at once, to belong to everyone...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/cats-around-world/feed/ 0 New Orleans. Alone. https://choosingfigs.com/new-orleans-alone/ https://choosingfigs.com/new-orleans-alone/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:29:22 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=51355 I love traveling alone. By myself. Solo. I mean, I’ve traveled all around the world by myself. Traveling alone, I can be on my own schedule. I can do what I want to do. And only what I want to do. I can go where...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/new-orleans-alone/feed/ 0 Life List #119: See a psychic. (New Orleans tarot reading.) https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-119-see-psychic/ https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-119-see-psychic/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:47:04 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=51335 I may be one of the most skeptical people you’ll ever meet. For every extreme political meme you post on Facebook I immediately go to Snopes to fact check. I assume all news stories are grossly exaggerated. I assume all personal stories are grossly exaggerated....

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-119-see-psychic/feed/ 3 Life List #115: Eat Café Du Monde beignets in New Orleans. https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-115-eat-beignets-cafe-du-monde-new-orleans/ https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-115-eat-beignets-cafe-du-monde-new-orleans/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:55:06 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=51321 When you think of New Orleans you might think of The French Quarter, Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, streetcars, jazz…and, of course, food. New Orleans is, after all, known for so many iconic foods: crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, gumbo, oysters, po’ boys, muffuletta. And beignets. Particularly, Café...

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