Minnesota

You can’t do Chicago in a weekend, and other reasons I quit my cushy job and left my home, friends, and family to pursue a life of wanderlust, uncertainty, and making the world my office.

March 21, 2012

The summer of 2009 was a game-changer for me. It’s the year I grew a pair and decided to leave the most comfortable job, life, place I’d ever known and move halfway across the country. It’s the year I spent jet-setting like a crazy person (I once counted 15 airports, 13 trips, 7 Cities, in 8 [...]

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Maple + Spicy, The Hunger Games, Good Bourbon, and Pole-Dancing

March 2, 2012

Lately has been busy. Overwhelming. Beautiful. Kind of cold-sick-ish. Learning to drink coffee without sugar (AND LIKING IT). But busy. And, because I have some work to do but can’t bear the thought of back-burning an honest-to-blog post again, and because we all like Top 10 lists (right?), I give you, dear reader, the Top [...]

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Train Travel and Other Musings on an Unplugged Weekend

September 7, 2011

An excerpt from my journaling and personal note-taking that I jotted down while we were in transit from Portland to St. Paul, last week aboard Amtrak’s Empire Builder. Yes, we willingly spent 36 hours on a train across the northern part of the US, and I’d happily do it again. – – – – – [...]

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1 | Canal Park Lighthouse

September 1, 2011

Duluth, Minnesota’s Canal Park is one of my favorite places to visit, largely because the two lighthouses that extend from the Aerial Lift Bridge into the harbor. This is one of those lighthouses.

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Minnesota-Bound and a Forced 36-Hour Unplug

August 26, 2011

Check out Value Mags for top magazine deals. We leave for Minnesota this afternoon on Amtrak’s Empire Builder, and head east through Oregon, up into Washington through Spokane, then up through Idaho, Glacier National Park in Montana, North Dakota, and arriving in Minnesota sometime Sunday morning. To say I’m excited is an understatement. This will [...]

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