A few weekends ago we traveled to Salida for the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover. This is a big music festival put on by Mumford & Sons - because why hold a concert when you can hold a three-day music festival?! We traveled to Salida on Thursday evening in the van, which meant it took [Read more...]
In less than two weeks, we’ll be heading out for another Westy West Coast trip. This time, we'll be spending six weeks driving along the coast in the Pacific Northwest as well as possibly making our way up into Canada to visit Banff National Park. In preparation, we’ve been making some upgrades to [Read more...]
View from my favorite reading spot at the guesthouse I recently returned from my third trip to Haiti. This was my first solo trip to the country (not to mention my first-ever solo international trip), and I have to admit that I was pretty nervous leading up to it. However, once I got to the [Read more...]
When Nic and I first got engaged in Peru in the summer of 2011, our first thought was to get married in Mexico on 12/21/2012. Nic had read a book full of essays about the supposed “apocalypse” date and discovered that rather than an end of the world, it’s likely that the Mayans viewed this date as a [Read more...]