Instagram Travel Vs. Real Travel
(Zhongshan, China) One of my favorite things to do when planning a trip is to take to Instagram. I love the airy, artsy photos from those wonderful people who can somehow take an entire photo studio with them across the world (not being sarcastic -- my saved photos are filled with them). Although, as someone who has traveled a fair amount, I know there is so much more to those photos than meets the eye. Examples galore from my own Instagram: Photo: (Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China) Insta Caption: We are in the process of collecting cool stories to tell our future children someday Actually: I didn't think of our future children once that day (oops). On this day, we arrived in Zhangjiajie after a 14 hour overnight train ride. We got so lost trying to find our hostel that we got a taxi to take us two blocks (literally, TWO BLOCKS). We ate peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast and lunch to save money. We arrived to the National Forest hours later than anticip...