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I Fell In Love With Wyoming

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…

Suburbia: A Blessing or a Curse?

I’ve lived in the same suburb of Portland my entire life. We moved once, but only up the street into a house with new construction. How first world of us. During junior high and high school I often hated our suburb. I was different from most of my classmates: I wasn’t particularly interested in sports, my…

The U.S. Doesn’t Have These

What does Europe have that the United States doesn’t? Bidets, Magnum ice cream bars, and towns like Óbidos, Portugal. I’m not sure whether there’s less tourism to the U.S. or whether it’s just different tourism. Our big cities are much more spread out, plus our shorter history yields fewer noteworthy sites for tourists to visit. In Europe, small towns thrive…