Giveaway #1

Woohoo!

It's giveaway time! A month from now we have a trip planned so we wanted to celebrate and get everyone excited! Who is ready to have some fun and be entered to win a $50 Amazon gift card?? That's right!

Alright, so here are the details, below there are 5 ways listed in which you can earn an entry into the giveaway. You can do one of them, two of them, or all of them (to your benefit so you can be entered to win 5 times!). You can only do each item once. The giveaway contest will end on November 13, 2015, and the winner will be announced! It's as simple as that. Any questions? If so, feel free to email us at carryontraveling@gmail.com and we will get those answered as soon as we can.

Now, here is how to be entered:

1. Like our page (If you have already liked it, you are one step ahead of the game and already have one entry in the giveaway!)

2. Share our page! (You can either copy and past our blog link and/or share our Facebook page, either way it helps to spread the word!)

3. We have tickets booked already to leave the country before the end of the year! Woohoo! You get one guess to guess the country we are going to and if you guess right, you win an entry. (We have a post on Facebook where you can comment with your guess! Also, those of you who already know where we are going, don't ruin the surprise for everyone and just email or message us your answer to be entered)

4. Go to our "Tips & Tricks" tab on the top of our blog page and comment on our post telling us which tips and tricks you would want to hear about most to win an entry!

5. In celebration of the snow starting up in Idaho we bring to you a snowy picture from _? (Fill in the blank, if you answer the correct country, you win an entry! This will be posted on Facebook as well so you can either answer via our Facebook page or comment below on this post)

Easy as that! You can get 5 entries for a $50 Amazon gift card. Perfect timing for all that Christmas shopping! We look forward to seeing who all earns some entries! Again if you have any questions regarding this giveaway, email us at carryontraveling@gmail.com or message us on our Facebook page! Good luck! The Winner will be announced November 14th, 2015!

New Year's in Rome

Our trip to Rome, Italy was in the middle of our backpacking Europe adventure. We spent New Year's Eve and New Year's Day touring the city, taking pictures, and trying to not freeze! The temperatures the days we were in Rome were between 4 and 12 degrees, not to mention the horrific wind that made it seem about 10 times colder.

We arrived in Rome later than we had hoped as there were some problems with the train schedules. However, we still had time to check into our luxurious hotel (or our really sketchy and trashy hostel, we should have taken pictures because it was by far the worst we stayed in the entire trip). Despite the "$5 hostel" (that was our name for it) we knew that we would only be spending a short amount of time there that night to sleep, so we immediately took off to find some food. Of course pizza was a must!

We then made our way to the Colosseum. It wasn't hard to find our way as there were hundreds and thousands of people flocking in the same direction. I (Julisa) have never been in such a crowded area before! Not going to lie, it was quite frightening and uncomfortable. Somehow we managed to maneuver through walls of people in order to get a view of the fireworks at midnight. Despite the freezing weather, the alcohol being thrown everywhere, and the crazy amount of people, it was definitely worth it!

The following day, the first day of 2015, we knew we didn't have much time to tour on our own so we got to view Rome from a tour bus. It was the kind of tour that you could hop on and off wherever and whenever you wanted so that made it nice for us to take a pit stop at the Colosseum and at Vatican City. It was a clear day which made for great pictures!

When we arrived at Vatican City, everyone was running. So naturally we ran too! We had no idea where we were running or why but we weren't going to stop and ask. Before we knew it we could see and hear the Pope giving a New Year's speech! It was so awesome! I (Julisa) obviously had no idea what he was saying but Daniel quickly translated. Apparently he talked a lot about the importance of keeping a journal (which we tried to do during our trip but failed miserably).

Before we knew it, time was running out, so we quickly finished our tour of Rome and made our way to the train station where we went to our next destination, Venice, Italy. We had such wonderful experiences in Rome and made so many memories. Although we only had about 24 hours there, we think that 24 hours in Rome is better than nothing! We look forward to returning there again someday and spending more time there.


Enjoy our recap of our experience in Rome! If you want to see more pictures, feel free to check back on our Facebook page as we will be posting a full album for Rome and Vatican City. Thanks for watching! Feel free to leave comments!
(Also, don't mind our abnormally orange looking teeth, we had an orange for breakfast).

First Year Recap

Getting the Blog Going

We would like to apologize for the blog not being complete. At this moment we are working on getting it up and running properly so that you can enjoy following our journey and adventures without any confusion. We hope to have it working well in the next week. Until then, feel free to like us on Facebook or email us at: "carryontraveling@gmail.com" We look forward to hearing from you!