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Europe, summer 2025 [part 3 – Berlin]

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Thistle

During my summer trip, I got to attend two major Pride events. The first was Cologne Pride, as previously written about. The second was Berlin Pride. I’m gonna try to keep this short and let the photos do most of … Continue reading →

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Europe, summer 2025 [part 2]

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Thistle

My trip to Germany this summer included two really awesome hiking trips. The first was to a spot known as Dreilaendereck (three-country point). There are several of these spots in Europe, and this one is specifically the spot where Germany, … Continue reading →

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Europe, summer 2025 [part 1]

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Thistle

Last summer, I was in Europe for two months. Because it was such a long time, I need to split up my travel posts about it into five parts. In this part, I’m going to talk about the six weeks … Continue reading →

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Barcelona – Apr 2025

Posted on January 28, 2026 by Thistle

So back in the post about my 2024 travels, I mentioned a trip that didn’t happen re: medical emergency. The refunds that I managed to get for that trip involved a roundtrip ticket to Barcelona that needed to be used … Continue reading →

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Germany – Feb 2025

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Thistle

Last February, I traveled to Germany for a week to spend some time with my theyfriend, the one I call Rainstorm online. We had met in person once before, long before we started dating, but this was our first time … Continue reading →

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Travels of 2024

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Thistle

In 2024, I had a number of planned trips, and a number of spontaneous(ish) trips. While I was originally going to write about them all individually, I’ve decided to wrap them all up in one post. This’ll be long… Northeast … Continue reading →

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2025 in Review

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Thistle

You know, when I started trying to blog again in January, I didn’t realize I would be going through an insanely pivotal year of many changes that would make it nearly impossible to keep up. Hm… Well, I guess here’s … Continue reading →

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Cologne Pride 2025

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Thistle

A year ago, my (then) good friend Rainstorm talked about going to Pride in Cologne, Germany by themself. I had never been to Germany, and I had barely gone to my first Pride event (Texas summers do not make for … Continue reading →

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Mediterranean Cruise 2023 + Tattoo Tour: Snake Arm (6)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Thistle

This is another catch-up post. I’m going to try to do some of these as I spend two months in Europe! Since my partner is working during the day, I might as well split my time into different priorities – … Continue reading →

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whoops…

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Thistle

Hmm, so there’s this thing where I said hello, then never wrote again… I do have reasons! First, it was because WordPress went crazy for a bit and tried to take away the old editor from me, and I despise … Continue reading →

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