by shantytowndesign | Feb 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
TLDR; for anyone in a hurry, here’s the preface. I decided the best way to spend part of January was to take my furbaby Courage on a Tour de Tejas ending in Hill Country — namely, Kingsbury, TX at the Wahwahtaysee Resort. For the sake of transparency I...
by shantytowndesign | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
When planning an event, depending on your main role in the game, it’s easy to be overly optimistic. The event you’re planning is, of course, the best thing you’ve ever come up with. You and your team have worked incredibly hard to pull...
by shantytowndesign | Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
As promised, I’m here to tell you a little bit more about Astoria. If you read through my original article detailing all the stops of our PNW 2.0 trip this past August, then you probably read my little mention of Astoria and Holiday Inn Express –...
by shantytowndesign | Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
When young girls dream of their future, we never expect the journey to be so long and winding…But here we are some 20 odd years later hustling every day and figuring out our happiness. To say that 2018 was a good year would be hard, to say it was a bad year...
by shantytowndesign | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t already begun setting aside some cash for your next adventure, you have just under three weeks to get it together! It’s August, the best month of the year to buy international flights. Dreaming of Dubai? Fawning of France? These elusive...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Society has a lot of expectations. It doesn’t matter who you are, even if the expectations we put on ourselves aren’t real — I think it’s fair to say we all still feel it. If you’re a woman, I’m definitely preaching to the choir....