We started 2025 by signing up for Duolingo to learn a little French for a summer road trip to Quebec. As usual, we ended up going way farther than expected — covering 9,178 miles (14,770 km) from our home in Florida, all the way through…
Before this year, we’d already spent a ton of time in Canada — almost exclusively in the mountainous west, checking out some of its most famous National Parks or just driving to Alaska. But it finally felt like the right time to give the Canadian…
This summer, we set our sights on someplace new: Canada! Okay, okay, we’ve definitely been to Canada before, but we’ve never visited its Atlantic coast. As we crossed the border from Maine into New Brunswick, we headed south for Fundy National Park, which lies alongside…
Last year, we planned to go to as many Canadian National Parks as possible on a summer road trip — and failed miserably. Strict COVID testing requirements combined with an overwhelmed healthcare system at the Montana-Alberta border stopped us dead in our tracks, diverting most…
As we were shutting the door on one chapter of our lives — college — we were opening another without fully realizing it. Our graduation ceremonies were held the first weekend in May of 2012. The following Monday, we buckled into our 2005 Honda Civic…
You know the feeling when your alarm goes off and you dread what’s coming next? Whatever your responsibilities are today, you know the feeling. You’ve felt it before an exam, before a review at the office, maybe even every day before you go into work.…
I was both nervous and excited as we packed ourselves into the smallest plane I’d ever seen. It would be the first of many flights we’d have to take to visit the eight National Parks in Alaska. But we felt confident that if we could…
In a split second, my stomach leapt into my throat as we landed hard in a pothole — KA-DUNK! I looked over at Lauren, whose mouth was agape, then grinned and flashed her a thumbs up. We both burst into laughter as we cursed the…
