There’s a few standard lodging options while traveling: booking a hotel or motel room, crashing on a friend or family member’s couch, pitching a tent at a campground, and sleeping in your car at rest stops. After nixing the last two (Matt was a proponent, and I was very firmly not), I started looking into finding Air…
What it is: My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling is a semi-autobiographical book about a young aboriginal girl who is sent to Kalamak Indian Residential School as part of the government’s attempts to assimilate native children into white culture. The book takes a diary format and follows Seepeetza’s time at school and on her family’s ranch.…
I kept worrying that the doors would open and I’d startle whoever came out. But that floor indicator was too awesome to pass up. Taken at Pacific Central Station in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. For more doors from all over the world, check out Norm’s Thursday Doors linkup.
Stunning. Incredible. Gorgeous. Beautiful. Amazing. By 3pm, we were already out of adjectives to describe our wonder and awe at Yellowstone National Park. The name “Yellowstone” is perhaps a bit misleading, because most of the rocks aren’t yellow, but we were surprised to see so much diversity in color. The colors are as bright and beautiful…
1. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, to satisfy the “read a Pulitzer Prize winner” assignment for the Read Harder Challenge (note: this was also on my Summer TBR, but I never got around to it!) 2. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, to satisfy the “read a sci-fi book” assignment…
1. Because true intellectuals can use proper grammar. 2. Because I can’t tell how much of this is a lie and how much is the truth. 3. Because Asa smokes kittens. 4. Because I have no idea what’s going on in this bio. 5. Or this one. 6. Because Shane makes unnecessary acronyms. 7. Because I don’t use people for their Costco memberships. 8. Because Sean’s…
In case you forgot how much I love street art. Taken in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. For more doors from all over the world, check out Norm’s Thursday Doors linkup.
Spoiler alert: Wyoming was by far my favorite place on our cross-country road trip. And it was unexpected, too. I’ve made so many quips about how there’s nothing in Wyoming, it’s such a boring state, how could anyone live there? I didn’t expect to fall in love with it as hard as I did–I felt legitimately heavy-hearted…
What it is: Don Quixote de La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential works of fiction, especially among Spanish literature. The title character, dubbed Don Quixote, becomes obsessed with reading about knights errant and their chivalric adventures. He goes insane, and attempts to bring these fictitious books to life with…
In winter, a weather vane and the forest become monochromatic.
Victim to Charm 