A quick day exploring Boston during COVID-19
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You’ll Never Want to Leaf Vermont
Katie gets to explore Vermont at the height of leaf-peeping season.
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Double Dating in Dublin
This adventure Rick and I took with my parents, who are awesome. I highly recommend traveling with them if given the opportunity. Their majesties, Bev and Al We met at Dublin Airport, where not only …
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Double Happiness: Urban and Natural Adventures in Hong Kong, Part III
On our last full day, after our full-full day, we needed to explore the outdoors. We packed our sunscreen, our drone, and our commitment until not coming home until the streetlights came on (Xennials, you …
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Double Happiness: Urban and Natural Adventures in Hong Kong, Part I
This year I’m thankful for a family that knows holidays are when you see each other, not days on a calendar. My lovely sister and her husband hosted Thanksgiving a week early for 20 of …
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Diamond Mining in Arkansas: Get Cold, Get Muddy, Stay Poor
In our continuing quest to hit all 50 states, we headed out to Arkansas. I’d been to Fayetteville once before for a conference (cute town!) but in general there wasn’t a lot compelling us to …
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Do the ‘Chu: Our Quick, Bucket-List Trip to Machu Picchu
As I mentioned, it wasn’t easy to get to Machu Picchu, but once we were there, man oh man, did we have fun. THE GUIDES As soon as you step off the bus, you’re accosted …
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Planes, Trains, and Autobuses: Our Adventures below Machu Picchu
After a crazy-busy month of work, I was able to take a long weekend off with Rick to check a major item off our bucket list: Machu Picchu. MACHU PICCHU!! It even sounds exotic, like …
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me about South Dakota?!
This summer I took my first trip to South Dakota, and blame you all for not sending me sooner. It’s my new favorite place. I can’t get over how beautiful it is. We flew into …
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Cruisin’ for a Snoozin’
Rick and I joined a group of family friends for a weeklong cruise through the Baltic. The people were amazing and the weather was perfect and we will probably never do another cruise again. Here’s …
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No, We Did Not See Morgan Freeman: Our Trip to Zihuatanejo
On a recent holiday weekend, the fam and I took a trip down to Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Known as “Zee-what” by visitors and expats, it’s a coastal town on the Pacific side of Mexico in the …
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Tokyo Time!
After our monkey business in Osaka and Arashiyama, Rick and I took the bullet train to Tokyo. So fast! So hideous! Hotels in Tokyo were still charging cherry-blossom prices even though cherry blossoms were hard …
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Awesome Blossom: Cherry Blossom Season in Osaka and Arashiyama
It had been ages (six weeks!) since we went anywhere, and Rick and I were getting itchy. This adventure, we were smart enough not to go somewhere cold, and instead crossed two important items off …