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Morocco

    Morocco was so much fun!!! The scenery, the colors, the people; definitely a dream come true. For people who don’t travel often, Morocco isn’t your typical tourist city. It is still a third world country, but being from Somalia, I felt right at home. We stayed in the medina at a Riad Ghali and Spa. When we first arrived there, we were picked up by someone sent by the hotel. They carried our bags through the Medina. It…

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Barcelona

Barcelona was a dream come true, everything I expected and more! I was so glad that we had an itinerary with lots of fun activities. The first day we got there we didn’t do much given that we had just flew 11 hours to get there, but nonetheless, we went out for gelatos and dinner. It was great getting to explore the city and having a local dinning experience. The next day was our walking tour around the Gothic Quarter.…

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Empire State of Mind

    I have a love/ hate relationship with New York. I love being in a big city; the hustle and bustle but I could never live in the city. I am continuously overwhelmed. So much to do, never enough time. For as many times as I have been to New York, I have never done so many touristy things as I have this time around, I think its because we took the kids. We did the most important things,…

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Louisville

      Summer has been all about traveling for me, any opportunity I got to go somewhere new I went. My sister wanted to spend some time away from home so we went to Kentucky to visit my other sister. I was very surprised at how beautiful the city was. We went to the big 5 bridges, got gelato and visited 4th and live. While it was scorching hot, we still had a great little gateway.…

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Fun things in LA

Our day was full of fun things, we started at Candytopia in the morning then headed to Mama Shelter; a rooftop bar in West Hollywood. Its super cute, has these chill colorful couches and a view of the city. After having lunch and ice cold lemonades, we headed to Issa Rae’s sip with Justin Simien. They had a Photo Booth area and a great discussion of Justin’s successful show Dear White People. They talked about being black in hollywood and racial tensions in…

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