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Alaska Stories from the Before Times (& Covid-Safe Travel Ideas with UnCruise)

What It Was Really Like Visiting Maui During COVID-19

How Hard Is It to Go to Hawaii Right Now? (And Should You?)

Update: Why I Moved Home to the Mountains & What’s Next

Racial Justice, a Militarized America, and Why This is on a Travel Blog

8 Little Things That Make Me Feel Like A Foreigner at Home

A Look at US Culture via the “Most American” City in the USA

Detroit, USA: Attempting Train Travel in the Motor City

Summer in Chicago & Reflections on a Whirlwind Year

“Apocalypto:” The 2016 US Election as Seen from Europe

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that a

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal…” That’s from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments, which she wrote here, in Seneca Falls, New York. So simple, yet so significant when it isn’t said. (And still isn’t law today, #ERAnow anyone?) Did you know the site of the 1st Women’s Rights Convention (in 1848) is actually a NATIONAL PARK? @womensrightsnps The park is just across the river from the National Women’s Hall of Fame @womenofthehall (the building I was tucking in my shirt to look sharp for a photo in front of.) There’s so much history to see in this little town! It was a stop on our way to Boston this summer, and I’m already planning to go back for another visit — when the historic buildings open up again. Have you been? (For my non-US folk: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal…” is a famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Obviously even that wasn’t true at the time, because slavery. But they didn’t even pretend to include women. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻) #WomenOfTheHall #womensrightsnationalhistoricalpark
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Midwest photo dump & random Chicago recommendation

Midwest photo dump & random Chicago recommendations! We made it to Boston a couple of weeks ago, but I glazed right over most of the Minnesota - Wisconsin - Illinois part of this cross-country trip. Maybe because I was too busy panicking over engine trouble. Luckily we found a talented, life-saving mechanic in Chicago who squeezed us into his busy day to fix our van baby. (Diagnosis: Battery + corrosion = Engine will die whenever you hit a bump.) If you’re ever stranded with car trouble in #Chicago, get to Luis at Andre’s Auto Service on Pulaski! Can’t recommend him highly enough! Otherwise, highlights of this mini-stop in our former Chicago home were this Chelada + Enchiladas con Mole at @fronteragrill 😋, stress-eating way too much sushi at @sushidokku after *finally* moving out of our storage unit, and taking in the big city skyline. 🌆 Plus gorgeous Wisconsin porches, Minnesota camp spots + sunsets. (PS: Chelada = Light Mexican beer – this one’s Tecate – with lime juice + a salted rim. 🧂 I think of it like a daytime margarita. 😉)

We see photos of plastic-covered beaches in develo

We see photos of plastic-covered beaches in developing countries all the time, but #plasticpollution isn’t a “developing world problem.” I picked up TWO bread bags worth of garbage from the beach by our camp site on the shore of Lake Erie. (Before breakfast.) (Straws and plastic water bottle caps were a majority of the haul, but I also picked up lots cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, tiny unidentifiable pieces of plastic, and the big Clorox bottles that those pieces had probably broken off of.) Then we had to get on the road, so I didn’t have time to finish the job – but I did mark the location on the @ioverlander app! So if you’re looking for a lake-side camp spot with a built-in project, I recommend it. Trash aside, it was a lovely free camp spot for a night! #shetravelsgreen #sustainabletourism

Getting my New England summer tourist on. 🦞 Ap

Getting my New England summer tourist on. 🦞 Apparently @gansettbeer is a famous thing here? Can any New Englanders confirm or deny this is a thing?
 And fish & chips from @dunebrothersseafoodshack made of one entire fish?? I’ve wanted to visit Providence since I was a little kid, and I have no idea why. I guess it sounded exotic to little girl in the mountain West. Even as an adult, I feel like I’m in a foreign country here and I ❤️ it. East Cost road trip suggestions welcome.

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