Casey Snook
I'm a travel blogger and photographer with a focus on adventure travel and expat life in Europe!
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🌎Boston native, Berlin expat 🇺🇸🇩🇪 ✈️Adventure travel & life abroad ⛰Hike 🎿Ski 🐠Dive 📍Berlin
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Add the Georgia Aquarium @georgiaaquarium to your itinerary when you’re visiting Atlanta! You cannot miss it. While I’m still figuring out how I feel about animals in captivity (I had a class all about it in grad school which left me VERY conflicted), I can’t deny this place was amazing. The excitement was tangible. Bringing the oceans to people in landlocked areas is one of the best ways to educate and inspire conservation. Places like this clearly accomplish that goal, even if they feel a bit like a theme park. @sapnapiracha and I had an amazing time exploring this place. It’s big, but you can see everything in half a day or so. We could have spent even longer there just watching everything swim 🐠 Which of these animals do find the coolest? #georgiaaquarium #whaleshark #mantaray #atlanta #visitatlanta #visitgeorgia #aquarium
When you think of Bavaria, do beer and soft pretzels come to mind? What about mountains and rivers and nature in its pure, rugged form? If you’re an outdoor lover, you MUST put Berchtesgaden National Park on your bucketlist. In the very south of Bavaria, Germany, this place is one of the most overwhelmingly raw and gorgeous places I’ve ever been. There’s hiking, lots of it, of ALL levels (like from a scale of completely family friendly to I have never been closer to death 😬 a sorry for another day haha). There are mountain huts to stay in, historic sites, cute little churches like this one, rivers, gorges, a stunning lake where you can take a cruise or swim, the list goes on. If you love outdoor adventures like me, don’t miss this place! And stay for at least three days to do all the things 🙂 What’s your favorite national park of all time? Tell me below so I can add it to my list 🥰⛰️ #bavaria #germany #berchtesgaden #nationalpark #hiking #outdoor #adventure
How I really feel about New York City… I can confidently tell you that the version of New York you see in most movies and tv shows isn’t the reality. It’s so dirty, loud, overwhelming, and stressful in real life. It’s soooo expensive. Living there made me a colder person, and a wildly unhappy one too. It took very little time for me to realize it was just not the place for me. But now, I’m always happy to visit New York. I feel like I know my way around, I can still pull my NYC personality out of my pocket when people are walking too slow on the sidewalk, and I can appreciate what it does have to offer with having to deal with the things I hate. This recent visit, we stayed in a 5-star hotel for the first time ever (yay points!) and it was honestly so great. New York felt a lot less aggressive at the @timessquareedition . The backpacker in me so did not know how to behave 🤪 All this is to say that I’m thankful for the places that didn’t feel like home. They taught me how to recognize when someplace (or someone) does. I cannot be alone. Anyone else have feELinGz about New York? Please tell me 😅 #newyorkcity #timessquare #newyorkcitylife #livinginnewyork #timessquareedition #travelwithpoints
I just picked my college major based on my favorite school subject in high school, not based on what I saw myself doing for my career and not based on what I was deeply passionate about. A lot of them seemed plenty good, but I felt like I struck gold when I found a program in Marine Conservation at the University of Plymouth. Not only was it focused around advocacy with a multidisciplinary approach instead of being just a hard science course, but it also paired each master’s candidate with a partner organization to help them get real experience in marine conservation while completing their thesis. One awkward email to my high school (which I graduated from nine years ago, by the way) and a frustrating call to England later, my application was finally complete.
There are alpine lakes, the river Pöllat with multiple waterfalls and gorge areas, cozy forests, the cute town of Füssen, and of course, incredible views over southern Bavaria. Definitely hike up to the castle first, head across the Marienbrücke for some great views, and then hike down through the canyon and back to the town of Hohenschwangau. If you’re looking for a bit of a longer hike in the area, hiking from Tegelberg to Hohenschwangau (or even the other way around) might be the perfect fit. When we got back to our starting point, we also decided to take a little walk near the Alpsee, although we didn’t do the entire loop.
Less than 25% percent of the route is actually secured with metal fixtures like a typical via ferrata route and even where there are places to clip in, the iron is wiggly and old. If you’re searching in German, it’s possible to find a lot more information about the Watzmann tour but that’s not so helpful if you’re In a German documentary we later watched (try watching with closed captioning auto-translated to English,) we learned that a good portion of the rescues that happen on the Watzmann via ferrata happen simply because people got too tired or too scared and then froze, simply stuck up there. However, once you round the corner, there’s a tiny hut precariously wedged into the rock face and a bench where people rest before taking on the “via ferrata.
It has crazy blue-green water color, no fewer than eight different islands, and sits right at the base of the country’s tallest mountain, Zugspitze. Consider hiking a little north of the lake to get some gorgeous views of the Zugspitze, Germany’s tallest mountain. Many people choose to rent bikes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and then cycle to the lake, but be warned, there are almost no sidewalks or bike paths on the roads. It made the perfect relaxing day after some strenuous hiking and is definitely one of Germany’s most stunning natural gems.