$10 DISPOSABLE; PRICELESS MEMORIES

Do yourself a favor..

Book a couple plane tickets with your best friend for a trip 6 months later.. Work like crazy and save every penny until then. Go and spend all that money you just worked for on priceless memories

Buy a disposable camera: carry it in your pocket like it’s your whole life. Anything that makes you feel a little thing in that second, take a photo. Then wait a month or two, to get that film developed and feel yourself back in those feelings and memories. Those one second feelings

Live off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a couple weeks, buy too many gas station snacks

Stay out drinking and dancing until the sun rises

Live out of a backpack

Wear the same clothes for a week straight

Meet new people everywhere you go

Laugh a lot

Cry a little bit

And don’t forget to slow down time, to put the camera away. To really feel yourself in that moment, that one in a life time moment.

To make priceless memories..

This life is all about the stories. And you’re the writer.

Thailand

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Either in LA or Bangkok making our way to Krabi. Stoke level still at an all time high, even after a day and a half of travel already.

Views from our back porch at our first hotel - Alisea Boutique. One of the most beautiful hotels I’ve ever been able to stay at

Our scooter Jen from the 3 days in Pai - this night we went searching for a party we heard in the distance. Found nothing but successfully scootered in the dark.

Temple visits in Krabi, planned by our adopted grandma Pat. Can almost feel the sweat again from how hot it was this morning

Got shuttled to a private beach for lunch on our second day in Thailand.. A dream I’ll be wanting to go back to forever now

The most unreal place to have lunch..

Krabi. The most beautiful area of Thailand, views like this every which way you look. The rock formations with palm trees surrounding is like something out of a movie. Can’t believe I even saw this with my own eyes

Ask me the most beautiful place I’ve ever been? I’ll show you this photo

Celebrating Songkran in Khao Sok - such a special experience

Coming back from visiting elephants in Chiang Mai.. definitely in my feels

Drunk 711 runs for cheese and ham toasties.. the best place to be at 11PM

Exploring Khao San Road.. easily some of my favorite memories right here

London and Paris

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Checked into our hotel, ate some fruit and got lost in the city (literally)

The most London photo..

Spring time in London.. exploring beautiful parks with flowers all around. Definitely fell in love and need to go back

London stole my heart with our short day exploring castles, beautiful parks, churches and the cute alleyways. Also eating the BEST PASTA

Way too big to capture in any photos but it was a sight unreal to see with my own eyes

Views from our hotel in Paris.. my heart was left here.

Exploring the cutest alley ways with the Eiffel Tower casting over me.. felt so surreal

To see the Louvre with my own eyes was the ultimate check on my bucket list

Sat here and watched the world pass by while everyone had to be somewhere, we took our shoes off and stayed awhile..

Cheap champagne waiting for the sun to set and the Eiffel Tower to light up.. finally had that picnic I’ve dreamt about

When I say this is my most favorite film photo ever exist.. it really is.

puts me in all my feels

Sunset at the Eiffel Tower.. that golden glow is like nothing else

Our last morning in Paris.. never wanting to leave

Iceland

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Night one in the van.. can’t believe this was our backyard. When we pulled in at night it was blue hour at 11PM and we didn’t even see these mountains. Waking up here was unbelievable for our first day.

Our first waterfall visit.. can almost feel the mist spraying us again from the second we opened the door.

My most heartfelt photo.. can feel the happiness radiating from me again, visiting Skogafoss was unbelievable.

Thought I’d never get to soak in this hot spring

One of the thousands of roads travelled in Iceland, but the one I’ll ALWAYS remember. For at least 5 minutes I thought the glacier running along the road in front of us was a cloud and when I found out it was part of the glacier from Glacier Lagoon. My mind was absolutely blown. Without a doubt, a day I’ll remember until I die.

One of those views that no photos I took will do justice.. the most incredible place I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t even believe how massive the glaciers were in between mountains I’ve never seen before. A view I’ll never forget

Glacier Lagoon.. Neatest place to have ever explored.

Our home from Lagoon Car Rental.. became way too attached to our house on wheels. It was a trip I had imagined for 6 years even longer and it was better than I couldn’t have dreamt. Some things are just better than your dreams, crazy to think it can be reality..

When we realized that we’ll be making hundreds of stop offs on roads like this all day and every day

Like a painting..

A view you only see in Iceland..

Diamond Beach.. something out of your wildest dreams

Gloomy and rainy days spent on the coast.. A place I wish I could share with you

I still have the black sand in my boots as a remembrance to a dream I was once here

Place wrecks in the middle of nowhere.. Was suppose to hike 4 miles round trip but somehow ended up hitchhiking a ride on the tour bus from a really nice guy. The hike back to the car was worth it though, Cierra and I had some of the deepest conversations our friendship has heard.

One of those places that you’ll see hundreds and hundreds of photos of, but will never create the same feeling of standing right in front of.

Roadside stop offs.. spent way too long running in the middle of the road here. Excitement level was through the roof - standing on top of the van and screaming type excitement.

Cierra for scale.. still doesn’t even do it justice.

Truly the most beautiful place to have randomly stumbled upon.. didn’t see anybody this day deep in the mountain pass.

Cierra after she took this “You’re going to die when you see this photo developed.. it looks like a painting”

- So true. This spot was so insane to see just as a roadside pull off.

Still the best hot spring I’ve ever been in.. Even if I had to stay in one corner where all the warmth is. All the views made up for it

For as much as Skógafoss is talked about and how popular it is.. Somehow we ended up with 10 minutes to ourselves. Just us and the waterfall. It felt special. But then again, all of Iceland does.

A night I’ll always be looking back on.. Our first real sunset - we were RACING to get here before the sky changed from pink to blue. Needless to say we made it and we were too excited we ran out leaving the van doors open. It was such a magical night Can’t believe a disposable took this. The reflection was absolutely gorgeous

The happiest moments of my life.. happened in this van and on these roads. Iceland I’ll be back. You have my heart

10PM in Iceland.. not bad

The excitement.. Best 12 days of my life

Ireland

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Ran around Cliffs of Moher for an hour like we were little kids in Disneyland for the first time.. One of the best nights of my life

Making breakfast at camp next to the ocean.. Oatmeal with peanut butter and instant coffee: always on the menu.

That edge of the world type feeling at the Cliffs

Instant coffee has never tasted so good.. the most beautiful spot to have breakfast

Nights along the Dingle Peninsula.. the one place I was most excited about before coming

Long drives to the next destination.. trying to get used to the wrong side of the road

The best part about National Parks in Ireland? THEY’RE ALL FREE

Simple moment of appreciation for Cierra.. a best friend that shares the same exact interests as me, feels hard to find. Remember how sentimental I felt this day

Almost got blown off the Cliffs during this from the wind.. can feel the excitement and happiness we had this night, all over again. The type you want to scream to the world to. Everything was perfect

Edge of the world type feeling at the Cliffs.. part 2

Nights running around under a gorgeous painted sky.. can’t believe how well this turned out

Had the sketchiest drive to get here.. well worth it. One of the most beautiful views I’ve ever stood in front

Ireland.. you really taught me how to appreciate the little moments

Sat here for almost an hour watching the waves crash and surfers ride them.. felt like time was non existent.

Easily one of the mornings that made me fall in love with Ireland.. all the little daisies, the crystal clear ocean water, white soft sand.

Our last real night in the van.. The sun set extra slow this night and we could see all the way to the ocean and the town below. Felt like the world was ours.

Silent Disco on bar 4 of the pub crawl on our last night.. Lucky to have had my best friend by my side the whole time. Everyone this night kept saying how amazing it was we knew each other for 14 years - they were right.

All the girls we dragged from our hostel room out on the pub crawl.. plus two girls we knew from ALL THE WAY back home. Life felt crazy this night

New friends met in the crowd of 40 people we had on our pub crawl

Our last morning exploring Dublin and grabbing breakfast extremely hungover.. Reminiscing on the night before and sad our travels were coming to an end.

“How long is forever?

Sometimes just one second.”

-Alice in Wonderland

Photo DiariesNiki HerringAugust 21, 2019Comment

Life

LIKE WE WERE YOUNG AGAIN.

I’ve felt like more childlike wonder these past 2 months than I did all of my last year total. You see, I always have a young spirit and I love spontaneity, adventure, always being on the go, you name it. But with that, also comes an old soul in me; the worrying and figuring out of the future. I sometimes forget the slow down period. The period of looking around and taking in everything that this moment offers. I forget to scream to the world just how happy I am when I feel like it, to laugh out loud to the point someone could mistake it for a dying seal, to cry when I feel something. Sometimes I just forget to really live. Like how we did when we were young.

A YEAR OF LESSONS

Here we are again. End of December looking back at everything that happened throughout this whole year, that bittersweet reflection of everything you’ve done throughout the past 365 days. That sort of painful sit down of looking back knowing it’s about to be nothing but memories in the past. Knowing all those moments were literally once in a lifetime. It’s so bittersweet.

WINTERTIME BLUES.

Some days are better than others.. I’m sure if you suffer with depression or anxiety like I do, you know that sometimes you’re on top of the world and it feels like you could scream to it just how happy you are and how great life is.. Sometimes the world feels like it’s crushing down on you instead. To a point you just want it to suffocate you, to take away the uninvited thoughts and feelings. Right now it feels a lot like being suffocated.