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Graceland, Memphis

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Graceland

If you’re just checking in, I just came back from a week long road trip with some friends. To recap, we were in the Outer Banks, North Carolina for the majority of the trip, made stops in Asheville, NC, Nashville + Memphis, TN.

Our original plan involved us staying in North Carolina the whole time, but because of circumstances and opportunity, we took advantage of having a rental car and decided to drive through Tennessee making Memphis our final stop. My friend expressed how visiting Graceland has been a dream of hers, and we made it happen. It was something I never planned on doing in my life, but I’m happy we did. It was a fascinating experience, and one of my favorite stops on the trip!

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Nashville, TN Highlights

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Day four of our trip was a big traveling day for us. We left the rental house in the morning, drove all the way to Asheville, NC for dinner, and then drove to Nashville, TN to the motel to sleep the night away. It was loads of driving, and we arrived to Nashville so so so late. And the motel experience was pretty uncomfortable, almost to the point where it felt as if we stepped into a horror movie, but I won’t get into that because it’s in the past and I’m alive. 👐

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North Carolina Highlights

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(A cool mural that was not too far from where we stayed.)

It’s wild to think about all the traveling we took part in within the week we had our rental car.
The four days we were in North Carolina, we stayed in the Outer Banks, and took a few trips around town to see what the Outer Banks had to offer. The majority of the time, we found ourselves chasing the sunset and looking out for awesome nature spots. It was a very picturesque area.

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Love Notes

Eat, Pray, Love Notes

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Graffiti In Athens

Gonna be honest, I’m kinda disappointed I haven’t found any murals or graffiti in the area of North Carolina we’re staying in. But then again, I guess that can’t be a bad thing at all. In my eyes, it’s both good and bad, but I really shouldn’t complain. They got a nice thing happening here on the eastern side of NC. They take care of their city.

In the meantime, I really still have much more graffiti photos from Greece, so that’ll keep this Love Notes section busy until I gather enough photos from other locations.

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Down The Coast We Go

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Nags Head, North Carolina

So I’ve had quite a number of family friends ask me, “didn’t you go on enough vacations this year?”. I did, but I’m trying to do this thing where I say yes more than no when good opportunities comes along.
Two weeks ago, a friend asked if I wanted to go on a road trip to North Carolina. Her aunt has a summer house that had a week free between being rented out and my friend wanted to reserve it for that week. I don’t have an excuse to really go south, so here was an excuse and opportunity. This year has been trip-tastic, so I figured why not go out with a bang and end it off with a rando road trip to the Old North State.

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The Fortezza

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Fortezza of Rethymno

Not too far from the city center of Rethymno in Crete is and old castle that protected the city against attacks from the water. To get to the castle was quite an uphill battle, which was the worst in the beaming sun.

It was pretty much open land with a few structures which were still mostly intact. They were probably restored as a couple of the buildings were being used as “art galleries”, or so that’s what it seemed like.
Obviously the Fortezza was right above the water. Standing at the castle, there’s a stunning view of the city underneath and a view of the water which was amazing.

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More Streets Of Chania

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Streets of Chania, Crete

It’s kinda strange revisiting all of these pictures now since I’ve been home for a week. I’m back in the American grind and thinking about Greece feels foreign to me again. I didn’t think I’d adjust so fast, but when you’re home, you’re home. Home becomes all you know again.

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Love Notes

Love Notes, Actually

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Graffiti in Greece

Looking back at all the photos I took from my long trip, I have a boatload of graffiti photos. It’s kinda crazy to think about how a country known to be so beautiful has quite a juxtaposition happening. You can defend how that occurs in every country and city, but it’s one thing to hear it and another to see it up close and personal.

As much as it is technically defacing buildings and other surfaces, I enjoy coming across bright, colorful, and detailed graffiti. It’s the vulgar language that I loathe seeing because it ruins the artistic aspect of graffiti. And this is why we can’t have nice things. 👎

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Old Town, Chania, Crete, Greece, Europe, Earth

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Streets of Chania, Crete

Crete is Greece’s largest island, and is said to be a 12 hour drive from one end to the other. That’s about where I am in New York to the tip of South Carolina. Equivalent to a road trip down a good chunk of the east coast.
When I arrived by boat I just didn’t know what to expect at all. I pictured tiny villages in mountains filled with goats and donkeys. I was excited to see how wrong I was! It’s a very developed island which has areas just as hopping’ as Athens.

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