So we drove to Miami. More specifically, we drove to Miami with a few very poorly packed suitcases, two kids determined to see their first palm tree, a fairly empty bank account, and a not-quite-yet house trained puppy. It was disorganized, not really thought out, and as all adult decisions go, probably irresponsible. That being…
first of the month: stories of road food
Joey and I have been kicking around a dream for a while. This is what it looks like: We buy a travel plaza off the Mass Pike. A whole travel plaza, or maybe just part of one since I’m not sure if we really want to own a gas station. And let’s just catapult ourselves there,…
triumphant
Last week, we went to the beach. It was, all in all, a spontaneous kind of trip. We’ve had no real getaways scheduled for this summer–really we have made days here and there out of book events, which has served the purpose nearly enough but not quite. We had plans to go down to a…
what portland means to us
When I was a kid, I used to order vacation pamphlets over the phone. I doubt they even make those anymore now that we have the mighty internet, but they were like little magazines for cruises and vacation spots. There were pictures and descriptions and they’d lay out pricing for the cheap packages and the…
eating off the grid
Oh California. I don’t even know what to say. Do I laugh? Cry? Tease you?Or do I jump in with glee? (my mug filled with blue bottle coffee and the sriracha mayo on everything) You, my friend, are serious about your pickles. Of, course, so am I. And the cynical New England in me, the…
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