About Pizza & Oysters
Welcome to Pizza & Oysters!
I’m Elizabeth and I live with my husband in the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle. We walk to work and are so close to everything you’d typically do if you visit Seattle. Originally from North Carolina, we spent the years before moving here traveling a good chunk of the South East. If I’m not going somewhere every 3 weeks, I get bummed out. Maybe it’s a problem, but traveling is one of my favorite things to do.
Everything you see on my blog (unless specified) I experienced and more importantly tasted. My trip to San Diego brought clarity about how “influencers” and travel bloggers sometimes just do things because it’s photogenic and don’t bother to actually experience the moment. This cannot be that! This is a place to collect my thoughts and organize my trips that I have taken with friends and family. Everything is experienced by me and I won’t be the travel blogger who spent 40 minutes taking pictures of my food and drink.
My travel style varies from bougie to budget. That’s where the name Pizza & Oysters came from. I can’t always splurge on a vacation, but sometimes I can! I will always try to do things as cheaply as possible without having quality suffer. For the past two years we have done a lot of weekend domestic trip and longer(10+ days) international cruises. We are shifting our focus in the later part of 2020-2021 to focus on traveling to Europe and maybe Northern Africa.
All of these articles will be post-trip, occasionally I will add in experiences I wanted to try and may not have had the time to do it. I plan a trip with the mindset of: “If I never go back, did I experience the place fully?” That doesn’t always happen, but we do our best. I’m also the queen of the last minute trip, both international and road-trip.
Leavenworth, Washington
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
Upper Left: Marina Bay Sands Pool, Singapore; Upper Right: Chi Lin Nunnery, Hong Kong; Lower Left: Linh Ung Pagoda Da Nang, Vietnam; Lower Right: Cannon Beach, Oregon
Ceviche and almost gone Sangria at Havana Harry’s in Coral Gables FL.
This blog is going to be initially set-up into four parts: General Travel Tips and Tricks, Daytrips/Weekend Trips, Domestic US Travel and International Travel. I’m going to try to post semi-monthly. I expect this should last me quite a while, I have plenty to say and have been so many places, with even more trips planned through May 2020(New York City). I’ll also be uploading our edited videos of us in different countries to our Pizza & Oysters YouTube Channel over the next few months. If you want to keep up with the travels in pretty decent real time follow the instagram here.
If you’ve made it this far:
Thank you for reading this and I can’t wait to share my travels with you. Expect to see articles about the following places (in no particular order):
Chicago, Las Vegas, Seattle (Budget and Bougie), New York City, Key Largo, Key West, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, San Francisco, San Diego, Vancouver and Victoria, BC; Portland, OR; Orgeon Waterfalls, Leavenworth, WA; Austin, Texas, Tuscaloosa, Spokane, Kalispell(Glacier National Park), Seaside, OR, Alaska Panhandle(Southeast Alaska), New Orleans, Charleston, SC; Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Washington, D.C; Burlington, VT; Champlaign, NY; Nashville, TN; Roatan, Honduras; Cartagena, Colombia; Costa Rica; Panama City, Panama; Grand Cayman; Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel, Mexico; Singapore; Hong Kong; Vietnam; Bangkok, Thailand; Taipei, Taiwan; Aruba; Curaçao; Belize City, Belize.
Cruise Lines and Airlines I’ll review:
Celebrity, Princess, Holland America, Delta, Southwest, Virgin, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines.
Hotels and Services I use for Lodging:
Marriott, Hilton, Boutique Hotels, and Airbnb (You get $40 off your first stay, I will get $30 once you complete your stay as a referral for this) .
Happy Traveling!