Friends, who wants to come along for a long weekend adventure with me?????? The primary activity will be staring at rocks.
Well, now that pretty much everyone except you has said "no thanks", let's pack up the car and get wheels up. We're going to a place called Red River Gorge in Kentucky. It's about a five hour drive so we have time to make a few stops along the way.
Friends, it's time for part three of three of the great Chicago/Amtrak/Austin rampage. We're going to check state capital #21 off our list.
Friends, it is time to get into every last detail of the trip that you've been dying to hear about and that I've been dying to tell you about! Choo-choo and All Aboard!!! We are going to take the Texas Eagle, which is Amtrak's Chicago to Texas route. It's a 30 hour trip, so we will be sleeping (and showering) on the train, and we're doing a round trip. We are Team Princess so we will be riding in a private roomette.
Friends, we have things to talk about! Buckle in and let me tell you about my latest trip. It started with a single day event in Chicago, and from there it morphed into a 10 day trip that included a train and Texas. As if that wasn't enough, I scored big time on the travel hacking front.
Friends, this is the story of how I fit the puzzle pieces together for my latest road trip. If you are not in the mood to see gorgeous things, you might want to skip this post.
Friends, if I do say so myself, I really outdid myself in the capital quest last week. One week, three capitals - let's go!
Friends, we've been at home for a while. Who wants to take a road trip????????
The last time that we talked, I had wrapped up a week in New Orleans and was on my way to Baton Rouge. This is the story of what happened next.
Friends, this is what I've been up to so far in my early retirement travels. Four locations, three trips, two countries.
I enjoyed all of these trips very much, but when I went to write them up as stand alone posts, something didn't feel right. The highlights of the capitol/legislature buildings are going to get their own posts in the future, so that part already felt like repeated information. I went to a lot of museums, and no matter how great a museum is, it's pretty tedious blogging content. And yet I still had things that I wanted to say about these places, so let's try a postcard style write up.
This post is the second installment on a topic that I never imagined that I would ever blog about: state flags. Today we're going to cross the border and take a look at the provincial flags.
Friends, today is bittersweet. We have reached the final 24 hours of the Great Maritimes Bender. It's going to be sad to leave, but there are still a few more adventures to be had.
Sigh, friends, this is the second to last post on the Great Maritimes Bender. The beginning of the end. I was missing home, but I was also nowhere near ready to leave.
At least I had the consolation of another weekend at Lighthouse HQ with Elisabeth & Fam.
Continuing the saga of the Great Maritimes Bender from last time, it's Thursday and we are wheels up from Charlottetown PEI headed to Fredericton NB. I wonder what adventures we will find along the way.
Welcome friends! Picking up the Great Maritimes Bender from last time, we are living every middle school girl's dream. We're in Anne of Green Gables Land!!!
Let's pick up the story of the Great Maritimes Bender from last time. It's Tuesday morning, and I have just said so long but not goodbye to Elisabeth. Today we're going to roadtrip to Charlottetown PEI with a stop in Halifax on the way.
Today's story is about the first weekend of my Maritimes trip. I stayed in Wolfville, Nova Scotia with Elisabeth and Family. The visit was a perfect blend of seeing epic places and spending time with epic people.
Wolfville is a university town with a permanent population of 5,000. At any given time there are about twice that many people around - tourists in the summer and university students during the school year. It has a good blend of small town charm but with all of the stores that a person could possibly need plus easy access to Halifax for big city essentials (hospitals, Ikea, Costco). The only criticism anyone could possibly have of Wolfville is that there are no traffic lights, so there can be some traffic backups downtown on weekends where everyone is out and about.
Are there wolves in Wolfville? Sorry to disappoint, but the town is named after Elisha DeWolf who was an early postmaster. Many of the places that we visited are outside of Wolfville city limits, but in my mind this is a Wolfville trip so I'm sticking with the title.
Friends, we have so much to talk about. I just got back from a 10 day Maritimes binge, and it's going to take a few posts to unpack all of the goodness. Today I'd like get things started by giving you the overview of the trip and telling you about the first night.
What are the Maritimes you may ask? I hadn't heard this term before I went to British Columbia last month, but now I know that it is the collective name for the three eastern provinces of Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Friends, it's time to close out the Big Beautiful British Columbia trip. It's Friday afternoon, we've been here just over a week, and after the weekend we'll be going home. What could there possibly be left to see?
Answer: a beach binge!!! We're going to see things this weekend that will make everything that we've seen up to now on this trip look ugly in comparison. Weather wise, the temperature was the ideal "warm enough for shorts, not warm enough to break a sweat".
