Want to go to Germany next week?

I talk a lot about my need for stability and predictability in my life. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy last minute trips or surprises.. As long as there’s at least *some* planning involved. It was the middle of December and I was about to start a work trip with my Buddy Bidder, Jake. […]

Mahalo Maui

One of the obvious perks to this job is the flight benefits. So when a friend from high school moved out to Maui in Fall of last year, I knew I had to add a visit to my calendar. The last week of February seems like an unconventional time to visit a tropical paradise. But […]

Roll with it

There’s so little we can actually control in our lives. We can control our day to day decisions of what we do and who we talk to and how we want to spend our time and energy and emotional responses. But in the grand scheme of things, the world is really out of our control. […]

Two years down

It’s been two years since I earned my wings. Two years of take-offs and landings, short overnights, bad hotel beds, great hotel beds, early sign-ins, red-eye flights. Two years of packing a suitcase in the morning and not knowing where I’d sleep that night. Two years of new cities and old friends, street food and […]

Holding pattern

The older I get the more I realize how much I crave stability. In my relationships, finances, career. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I need to control everything – though some may argue that – but I like predictability and knowing, relatively, how things are going to work out. So when some […]

Party in PTY

It’s rare you get to work with the same people twice in my career. It’s even more rare to work with the same people twice, when you actually click and get along with them. I visited Panama, my 12th country of 2019, in September and was blessed to have an amazing crew member I met […]

BELIZE it or not, this was paradise

“I don’t know about you, but there’s something so nice about being comfortable enough with someone to just sit and watch the sunrise together without having to say anything.” Caye Caulker, Belize is a tiny little island paradise that I’m already wanting to go back to. My best friends “found” the island a few years […]

Only a dream in Rio

The crew scheduling blessings continued to rain down. My second standby in February turned into a DREAM. Scheduling calls and says, “We’re going to deadhead you to Rio and then you’ll work back.” WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY?! A deadhead is essentially when the company needs to move flight attendants so they can work from another […]

Back home in Beautiful Nebraska

Nebraska has a special place in my heart. In recent years, I’ve been able to make amazing memories there, nearly all stemming from my friends in Lincoln. I met Bill and Katie while living in Wyoming. Bill and I worked at competing TV stations but bonded over our passion for the laziest Saturdays watching College […]