“The entire contents of [this blog is] based exclusively on personal experience.” —K. Baedeker, inventor of travel guides and the star-rating system (no, like for real)
Learning to play backgammon aboard a dahabiyeh on the Nile. Did we bring the backgammon? Guilty as charged. 😅
Hi, I’m Hannah. 👋🏼
And this isn’t really a blog; more like a scrapbook. It’s my little corner of the internet to stash stories before I forget them… and maybe inspire or help someone along the way (I hope!). 🥹
My day job is as a 4th generation Funeral Director ⚰️ and I dabble in weird hobbies like travel advising ✈️ and releasing music. 🎧 I’m one of those lifelong learners. ♥️
My adventures lean on history; the older the better! I’ve stayed in vintage hotels that boast famous patrons and I like to dine at historic spots too, but…
I’ve also had just, like, a really excellent diy picnic lunch sitting on top of an abandoned WWII bunker with my in-laws. 🪖 Oh (!) and once slept swinging in a hammock that was $5/night with nothing underneath me but the Panamanian sea. 🌊
I’ll let you guess if the high society or lowbrow experiences are my fave. 😆 Travel retold is much more glamorous when everything goes wrong. 😏
A few chapters so far:
💪🏼 At 14, I begged my parents to let me build houses in Ecuador 🇪🇨 with TMI. Still one of the most formative summers of my life.
🎺 At 18, I toured over half the U.S. states marching baritone with a drum & bugle corps for 3 summers x 3 months = 9 months of sleeping on buses and gym floors, chasing perfection (& wicked tanlines) landing 10th in the world.
Digging a footer in Ecuador. I fed the spiders to the chickens, and the roasted guinea pig to, well… myself. 😂 (don’t worry, we ate the chickens too)
🎓 At 20, I studied at a university in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 for a semester, leveled up my Spanish, and came home with a full-blown case of the travel bug.
🌏 At 35, I checked off all New 7 Wonders of the World with my husband. Goal complete ✅
These days, I travel with Dantan (who teaches history, loves a good museum, and says yes to every trip) and we share our life in Ohio with Jasper, the world’s best cockapoo. 🐾 Longest trip with just a carry-on? 18 days. Could go forever.
If you like stories with a little heart ♥️, a lot of history 📜, and typed by human fingers 🙌🏼: you're in the right place.
Thanks for being here,
♥️ Hannah Wernecke
📬 hannah@seethepyramids.org
P.S. To read about adventures, start at the ✨Topic Index✨ and if you want to plan one yourself, but don’t know where to start, head over to the Travel Method. 💪🏼
P.P.S. After thinking about it for years, this website and also this website inspired me to finally go for it!
