THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

I know this is a bit of an oxymoron coming from a flight attendant, but road trips are truly the best.  Don’t get me wrong. I fly for a living and love it, and being able to get on a plane for 7 hours to make it to my best friend’s 30th birthday in Paris and back to NYC 24 hours later for a friend’s engagement party is awesome and quite impossible by car. Plane hoping all over Alaska was super fun as well. And flying over 20 hours to get to Palau was worth every effort it took to get there. However nothing beats taking a car and driving around when it comes to really discovering and exploring an area.  So after all my international trips, I was itching to discover the US a little more and what better than a cross-country road from New York to California.  I had three "bucket list" items for the trip: eat crabs in Maryland eat deep dish pizza in Chicago  get married somewhere along the way Yes I know that third goal was a bit of a ...

Ok first off, I am not engaged or planning to elope. At least not yet. This is just me, wondering about life and people's reactions when it comes to wedding planning. I have been to  many weddings, even been a bridesmaid a couple of times, and I have to say I am pretty lucky. My friends and family all have impeccable taste when it comes to wedding parties. Whether a destination wedding at the beach, a week long celebration Tunisian style, or an intimate French affair, every wedding I have been to has been amazing in its own way. And being a girl, you would think all these weddings would be the perfect inspiration for my own wedding, but nope. I am not sure why, but it's kind of the opposite. I feel like I just want to elope and go straight onto my honeymoon. But it doesn't mean I don't want to celebrate with all my friends. I just don't want the pressure of figuring out a date that works for everyone. I don't want the pressure of planning it all and ha...