About Me
Ciao! I’m Holly
I love immersing myself in new cultures, learning languages, and experiencing the world outside of my comfort zone. I’ve wanted to create this blog so many times but always managed to talk myself out of it until I realized that everyone has a story to tell, including me.
I hope to make travel and following your heart a bit more attainable for everyone. Here you’ll find stories about life as an American ex-pat (the adventures and the misadventures), travel guides, and real shit.
As a tall woman, Alta Adventures is an ode to my height as well as the languages I speak—Alta means tall woman in both Spanish and Italian.
I love immersing myself in new cultures, learning languages, and experiencing the world outside of my comfort zone. I’ve wanted to create this blog so many times but always managed to talk myself out of it until I realized that everyone has a story to tell, including me.
I hope to make travel and following your heart a bit more attainable for everyone. Here you’ll find stories about life as an American ex-pat (the adventures and the misadventures), travel guides, and real shit.
As a tall woman, Alta Adventures is an ode to my height as well as the languages I speak—Alta means tall woman in both Spanish and Italian.
A little more about my story…
I’ve always been an indecisive person, and I struggled for a long time about what I had to offer this world and what I wanted to do with my life.
Though I love the small Nebraska town I’m from, I never truly felt like I belonged there and felt there was more that I had to see and do.
I took some time off from University to live in Costa Rica, where I learned more about myself than I had for the first 22 years of my life. That experience shifted my worldview and changed the course of my life forever.
I returned to University in my home state of Nebraska, and after graduation, I moved to Europe to teach English in Spain and have been living and working abroad for over five years now.
I had no idea what to expect, and none of it would have happened if I hadn’t hurdled myself into the unknown. I’m so grateful I did.
I’m thrilled you’re here to follow along with my journey and I hope to inspire you to take the leap into your next big adventure.
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