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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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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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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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…