Where In The World Is Marissa Garcia

Nerves

So it’s really starting to set in that I’m actually leaving the country for a year! My initial feeling when putting the deposit down was a massive wave of excitement that was quickly followed by an “oh shit”. I’ve known for a few months now that I’ll be leaving to travel the world with people I’ve never met, but…

Remote Year

For those of you that haven’t heard yet, I’ve been accepted to partake in a program called Remote Year! The premise of Remote Year is that you travel around the world to 4 different continents with a handful of strangers over the course of a year.

I Might Be In Love…

With Colorado! Have you ever been?

We awoke in the beautiful Colorado mountains, greeted with fresh air, chirping birds, and most surprisingly, the cutest rats I have ever met (the two rats were named Orbit and General)! For the first time on our road trip, we were…

- Colorado Here We Come -

Before leaving Utah, Kelsey and I figured we had to visit Temple Square (the Headquarters of the Mormon Church). Before we went downtown to check it out, we quickly packed up our things from the hotel and were on our merry way! That is until we made it to the car and I realized I…

Loss and Coping

Picture this: You’re sitting at a red light, doing what we all know is illegal but can’t resist — quickly glancing at our texts. When in that split second you see a text from a friend that you maybe haven’t spoken to in a while. The immediate curiosity overcomes you and you have to check to see what…

Don’t be Salty…

Before we knew it, our time had come to leave for the road trip! Kelsey came to pick me up (5 hours out of her way round trip…BLESS HER SOUL) and we headed to Sacramento to spend one last night in California before kicking off the road trip.

Cross Country Again!

So those of you who read my post last August saw that I drove from San Francisco to San Diego and then all the way across to Florida over the course of a few days. While that was an amazing road trip, I have always wanted to do a cross country trip with a close friend where we actually get…

Three Ceremonies, 36 Hours

As some of you may know, I graduated last May (2015) with my BS in Business Management and a minor in Marketing. My other friends however, all were in on taking a victory lap. After a torturous year of watching them have fun in San Diego and living just about a mile or two from the…

The Heroin Capital of California

This past weekend a few of my oldest girlfriends and I took a weekend getaway to Clearlake, CA. It has been a place I’ve heard about since I was 5 years old because my two girlfriends used to go when we were growing up and for whatever reason I never joined them. After…