​​​​​​​STEPHANIE WILKINS

Anyone who knows me knows I have no shortage of crazy travel stories to tell, but my vacation to Barcelona was a new level of dealing with the unexpected. When I booked my plane ticket months earlier, I had no idea I’d be there for the controversial Catalan independence referendum. We arrived on the day of the vote and happened to be staying on one of the city's busiest streets, where we watched march after march of flag-waving Catalans from the balcony of our apartment. That