trip report
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Continuing on our now three year tradition of traveling to the rust belt in fall, which is actually entirely coincidental up until this point, we took a long weekend trip to Detroit, Michigan to visit my friend for her 40th birthday. I’ve always been interested in seeing Detroit – its rise to being an economic…
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Italy! If only this blog existed when we went to Italy the first time, in 2023. That trip was my first time going to Europe, and my first trip out of North America as an adult. It was also the most exciting two weeks of my life, and I have spent each day with some…
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Mexico City! Much like Québec City last year, Mexico City has been on my husband’s bucket list for many years. It is the largest city in North America, with approximately 22 million people in the metropolitan area, but somehow tends gets lost in the fog of misunderstandings about what Mexico has to offer. Similar to…
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This was our second time going to Miami. The first time we went was in December of 2022. Depending on which member of the family you asked, it was either an incredible success or one of the worst trips we’ve ever had – the first part of the trip went off without a hitch, but…
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Last spring, my husband approached me and asked, “Would you rather go to Cleveland or Pittsburgh?” One of his favorite bands, Opeth, was going on tour, but wasn’t going to be coming to the west coast at all for the tour. Since we visited Cincinnati last fall and I hadn’t yet been to Pennsylvania, I…
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At the time of writing this blog entry, I have 67 Google Flights alerts set to email me when prices change. If they ever start limiting the number of alerts you can set, I’ll be really, really sad, but for now, I keep loading them up with aspirational and planned trips to keep track of…
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Remember COVID? Remember when everything shut down and nobody was allowed to travel (more or less) and borders were closed? We live in Washington state, and on the first week of April 2020, we were going to go on our first international vacation as a family, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. You can probably guess how…
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