welcome!
i’m jenni, and this is my travel journal. read it, because it rules. i pretty much live for travel, and there are only a few things that keep me from being on vacation constantly:
- needing to make money to be on vacation constantly
- my awesome friends, who keep me too busy here
- i love my hometown, minneapolis.
update!! (april 2009)
i finished writing about our jamaica trip! i’ve recently added my travel timeline by year, places visited maps, and a tag cloud for the entire site.
also, if you’re using tripit.com, add me as a contact: jenni[dot]ripley at gmail.
upcoming trips: we’re going to chicago for a world cup qualifier in june, doing some road-tripping over the summer, going to vegas for a weekend in september, and planning on a southern caribbean cruise in december, with a couple extra days in puerto rico. after that, it’s probably time to go back to europe.
| 02.2009 | jamaica matt and i spent a week on the beach in negril, and didn’t ever want to come home. |
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| 10.2008 | las vegas (for the fourth time) matt and i met colleen and steve and several of his friends for a weekend in the most ridiculous city on earth. |
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| 05.2008 | puerto vallarta matt and i went to mexico to celebrate our one-and-a-half year anniversary! |
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| 01.2008 | western caribbean cruise five of us paid visits to key west, grand cayman, honduras, and cozumel. i didn’t think we could outdo the last cruise, but we won! |
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| 09.2007 | seattle for bumbershoot matt and i went to seattle to visit colleen and steve, to stumble around the city, and to see both the wu-tang clan and fergie at bumbershoot. |
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| 08.2007 | the baseball roadtrip wendy, willis, matt and i went to chicago and milwaukee to see two baseball games over a long weekend, with much good entertainment in between. |
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| 07.2007 | north dakota for roughrider days five of us visited cindi’s hometown for their annual citywide party. we all managed to make it out alive. |
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| 03.2007 | cruise to the eastern caribbean we went to puerto rico, st thomas, the dominican republic, and the bahamas. months later, we’re still laughing hysterically whenever we talk about it. |
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| 01.2007 | team awesome in las vegas six of us went to vegas. six of us returned alive. that was pure luck. |
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| 09.2006 | denver for the dalai lama stephanie and i went to see the dalai lama in denver, and managed quite a bit of hiking in the mountains as well. |
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| 09.2006 | new mexico/colorado i wandered off by myself again and managed to cover a lot of ground. i love new mexico. |
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| 08.2006 | chicago for lollapalooza i saw many shows and got to spend the weekend with lauren. so much fun. |
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| 06.2006 | alaska i don’t have words to express how amazing alaska is. we spent time in anchorage, the kenai peninsula, and denali. |
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| 05.2006 | orlando to visit la familia stephanie and i took a whirlwind tour, including stingrays, rollercoasters, dancing all night, a reunion with alina, dirty dolphins, and driving a mustang to the coast. |
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| 04.2006 | dc for the cherry blossom festival since i was a little kid, i’ve wanted to see the cherry blossoms in washington, dc. i finally got my chance! |
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| 01.2006 | bahamas in which jenni discovers there are places in the world where the ocean IS actually that amazing turquoise color. featuring an extra-special bonus trip to kentucky. |
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| 11.2005 | budapest/prague bertine and i spent seven days in former soviet-occupied territories, doing our best to boost the retail economies and get to know the naked locals. |
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| 08.2005 | las vegas the supershortened review. with pictures! |
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| 07.2005 | hawaii ten days in paradise could not possibly be enough. |
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| 04.2005 | los angeles sun, ocean, and, uh… dick. |
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| 10.2004 | san francisco because california knows how to party. my sister demanded we take a weekend trip. she chose the place (my suggestion was reno). she was right, as usual. |
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| 06.2004 | bonnaroo festival further adventures in tennessee. |
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| 01.2004 | la florida i went to disney so you don’t have to. |
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| 09.2003 | anniversary in savannah much ocean. much driving. much down-home cookin’. |
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| 07.2003 | west coast roadtrip [route map] a girl. a car. way too much time alone. |
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| 06.2003 | 30th birthday in miami 36 hours in south beach. |
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| 04.2003 | deep south roadtrip [route map] three yankee geeks manage to get out of mississippi alive. |