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We have become quite the fan of the long weekend. Instead of using all of your PTO on one or two long…

Thanks to the pandemic, we’ve been spending quite a bit of time outside these days; anything to get us out of the…

From 1999-2003, I attended the International Baccalaureate program at St. Petersburg High (Go Green Devils!) so for four years, I had a…

My paternal grandmother, who insisted we always call her Grandmother, died when I was 17, so I never got a chance to…

This weekend was one of the rare ones where we didn’t have any plans. We woke up Saturday morning with nothing on…

My husband has been talking about going to the Catbird Seat for years. A tiny, 22-seat U-shaped counter where patrons watch the…

It’s been a minute since I’ve posted here, and I do keep meaning to post about the awesome trip to London I…

I like to document things, so Justin helped make a list of every single bar or restaurant where we ate or drank…

Justin and I recently completed a 23-day road trip around the northeast United States and Canada. (Check out the previous posts: Update…

If you missed my first update about our 3-week northeast road trip, you can check it out here. The second one was…

My 10th grade American history professor was a black Pentecostal preacher, so lectures were often lively but even the most engaging teacher…

Greetings from the road! Literally. I’m typing this from the front seat of the car as justin drives us to Plymouth Rock.…

The husband and I had the grand pleasure of visiting Austin for 4 nights and 5 days so I could attend the…

One of my favorite ways to pass a sunny afternoon in Nashville is to play tourist in my own town and remind…

Reviewing 7 nights on the Celebrity Solstice Cruise to Alaska (Sept 2017)

The plot of the movie The Hangover is total bullshit. There is no way someone could remain undetected on the roof of…

Dakota Confusion My 7th grade geography teacher assigned yet ANOTHER diorama, and while I usually relished a fun, creative, easy project like…

In New York you can be a new man. – Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton Look around, look around at how lucky we are…

For four weeks, we swapped homes with Cora and Hans, a sweet and fun-loving couple from the Hague. We got to experience…

In 2005, my family spent six weeks living in Whistler, British Columbia. My dad and brother flew, but my mother and I drove an SUV full of everything we’d need including four suitcases, three computers (remote work, ftw!), three pets, and one litter box.

This is the story of Sherra and Ashley’s Cross Country Adventure.

Spoiler alert: things get REAL WEIRD in Colorado.