Category: Blogs
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Seattle Solo Day Trip
Hello friends, fellow travelers, and fellow bloggers! We recently started our contract in Everett, Washington. If you don’t know where Everett is located, it is approximately 35 minutes outside of Seattle. My husband works the “normal human hours”, meanwhile I’m working the nursing hours. Last week I worked the weekend, which means I had a…
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Eugene/Springfield Travel Nurse Contract: Review of Hospital, furnished finder, and things to do!

My name is Dominique Bryant, and I’m a travel nurse currently traveling the United States, with my husband. My husband Nicholas works in finance, and works from home. He is able to travel with me. We recently got married in October 2021, and decided to start travel nursing. I started travel nursing because I was…
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Hooray sports, do the sports, win the points!

Calling all sports fans! Sorry I fell off the face of the planet…I’ve been working a lot, and we’ve done a little bit of exploring! I wanted to talk about all the sports games we’ve attended before jumping into some nursing things next week, because everyone knows how much I love sports. First off, our…
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Covered bridges in Cottage Grove, Oregon

We are currently readjusting to our first week in Eugene, Oregon. The first week and the last week of an assignment are always the hardest. We now feel a little more adjusted and are really enjoying it. Are you a morning person, or a night owl? How do you start your day? Do you wake…
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First looks of our Apartment in Eugene and our first Oregon Hike!

Welcome back friends! We are officially moved into our new apartment in Eugene, Oregon. We arrived at five pm on Wednesday night completely exhausted, but excited to move in. We found our new apartment on furnished finders. I start work Monday, so I had some time to adjust and unpack, but Nick started back on…
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The Final Destination

Our interesting fact will be related to travel activities. Nick and I were discussing our favorite activity we’ve done during travel nursing. We actually agreed and said our favorite activity was Badlands National park. Last night was the first night of this cross country trip, we were actually able to relax. We spent the night…
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I’m coming back for you Utah!

Hi friends! Today was a better drive. We went from Provo, Utah to Boise Idaho. It was a shorter drive (much shorter than yesterday lol), so we were able to enjoy Salt Lake City and even Boise this evening. First let’s start with our interesting facts of the day. Nick would like to start with…
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Breaking down travel nurse pay/Finding a place to live/duplicating expenses

Today is our longest drive from Lexington, Nebraska to Provo, Utah. Our route changed a few days ago when my husband was looking at maps, and realized I-80 in Wyoming had a lot of issues. We are now traveling through Colorado. This alternate route tacked on another two hours to our drive. During our drive,…
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Positives and Negativies of Travel Nursing

We made it to Chicago last night! We were able to visit the bean last night and get some deep dish pizza. We debated if the bean was better at night or during the day. What are your thoughts? If anyone doesn’t know, my husband has his sports all wrong. He’s a huge Miami Dolphins…
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Solon Ohio to Chicago Illinois

Hi friends! I’m happy you decided to join us back for more. Of course, we are gonna start out with an interesting fact or something new that we learned. My husband is like a sponge of information. My mom likes to call it interesting facts and I like to call it useless knowledge. I guess…