Welcome to It’s a Schmahl World! This is the blog about the adventures of Kathryn Schmahl Oliver and Kim Schmahl, sisters from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Growing up, our family never went on the same vacation twice. Every summer vacation, we went to a new place and traveled different parts of the U.S., from the Grand Canyon to Williamsburg to San Francisco. And then in 2002, when Kim was 13 and Kathryn was 10, our family went international! Thanks to our mom’s job, we spent a year living in Luxembourg and the two of us got our first taste of the world outside of the US.

Now we’ve grown up and have inherited our parents’ enthusiasm for seeing new places and learning about different cultures. The idea for this blog came to us a few summers ago while we were on a family vacation to Madrid and Paris, our first time back to Europe since Luxembourg.

We launched It’s a Schmahl World in 2016, while we were both recent college grads, living and working full-time in the Midwest, taking any chance we had to travel someplace new. The years since have seen a few changes in our lives, but we’ve continued to share about our adventures here. Kim was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia in West Africa from 2017-2019 and she shared about her experience abroad, all of which can still be found in our archives.

Now both Kim and Kathryn have found themselves living back in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and we’ve expanded the blog to not only include posts about our travels, but some of our other hobbies as well, like reading and planning our annual Harry Potter parties!

We’re excited to share our adventures with you!

You can contact us by e-mail at itsaschmahlworldafterall@gmail.com or follow us on instagram (@schmahlworld) and pinterest (SchmahlWorld).