“Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.”― Laurie Helgoe Reading transports us. Last year, I strived to read books that took me away …
My Love for Postcards
The stack of postcards has been growing for close to 15 years. I’ve managed to keep them all in a box in one of the plastic drawer sets that have followed me around since college. When we bought our first …
Every Single Establishment We Visited During Our Three Week Road Trip
I like to document things, so Justin helped make a list of every single bar or restaurant where we ate or drank during the period between May 25 – June 15. Have YOU been to any of these places? …
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Road Trip Debriefing: Stats, Observations, and Random Thoughts
Justin and I recently completed a 23-day road trip around the northeast United States and Canada. (Check out the previous posts: Update 1 • Update 2 • Update 3 • Update 4) It was so much fun, an adventure unlike …
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Northeast Road Trip Update 4: Canadian Edition
Oh, Canada! The last third of our trip was doing the greatest hits of eastern Canada: Montreal, Toronto, Niagara Falls. I wish we’d had time to do Quebec City but that was a bit out of the way for this …
Northeast Road Trip Update 3
If you missed my first update about our 3-week northeast road trip, you can check it out here. The second one was American History themed and you can read it here. Greetings from Vergennes, VT, a small town in …
Road Trip American History Edition: DC, Philly, Plymouth, and Boston
My 10th grade American history professor was a black Pentecostal preacher, so lectures were often lively but even the most engaging teacher can’t force 15 year olds to care about what happened 250 years earlier. I always enjoyed Mr. Davis’ …
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