Category: travel
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My WordCamp US Focus Mode
iOS Focus Modes are a game-changer! A couple of years ago I wrote a post about how I used them to totally change my relationship to my phone. This summer, I’ve taken things up a notch—tweaking my Travel Focus and even creating a Québec Focus for our recent family trip. If you’re curious about the…
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Forget Europe. Montréal est Magnifique!
aka “Oh look, Ryan went to another city and rode a bike. How original!” Bicycle people often cite European cities when advocating for more equatable transportation options in our North American cities – Amsterdam as the obvious world leader in cycling infrastructure, maybe Copenhagen, Paris for how quickly they’ve transformed their city or Oulu when…
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WordCamp US 2023
I attended my first WordCamp US this year and it was great! The Travel WCUS 2023 was held in National Harbor, Maryland. It was my first time visiting the DC area. DC is such a well documented and important city that I felt like I knew exactly what to expect and it delivered. Basically to…
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Bemidji, Minnesota
Alternate Title: Fuck North Dakota and their bullshit. Let’s do our cross-border shopping in Bemidji! For the uninitiated, it’s quite common for Winnipeggers to take weekend trips to Grand Forks or Fargo, North Dakota to stock up on weird American junk food variations not available in Canada, cheap booze and (historically) good deals on just…
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Visiting A Superpower that is also a Failed State
Last week I took an extended weekend off to drive down to the Twin Cities with my family, for the first time in almost exactly 3 years. Ever since we started going down there for punk shows (long before Odessa and I were married) we have made it a habit to trek down at least…