Growing up with moms who loved gardening, my friend Carrie and I were destined to become plant ladies; and plant ladies we’ve become! I mean, we fangirl over plants. So we certainly saw taking a trip out to Florida Cactus as a worthy cause to brave the heat and (worse yet) humidity of summer.

One of the reasons I started this blog was so I could share what costs are actually involved with travel. Over the years I’ve followed many blogs, some being travel blogs. I have always loved reading their amazing posts about adventurous and breathtaking trips. However, its kind of rare to find a post that actually outlines how much the trip cost, which usually lead me to believe I would never be able to afford it.

Hiking the Grand Canyon from rim to rim has been a dream of Lori’s and mine for a while now. Trips like that take a lot of planning and preparing, but you just have to go for them. It was such an incredible hike; filled with memories I won’t soon forget.

“Camp on a deserted island,” they said. “It will be fun,” they said. Yeah, um, pretty sure that was one of the worst travel nights of my life; second only to night trains through Italy (but that’s a story for another time).

We stayed in Zion National Park for 4 days, and it was nowhere near enough time to hike, explore, and enjoy all this park has to offer. This canyon just captures you somehow. It’s certainly one we’ll keep returning to throughout the years.