To be honest, I never gave much thought to Troy, New York. It was a small city outside of Albany that I often passed through on a highway on the way to a bigger destination. I never got out of the car and to be honest, kind of dismissed it as a place on my journey instead of a destination. Well, I’ve never been happier to be wrong 
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I stumbled across something interesting in my new nomad location of Troy, NY that I wanted to share it with you: Amazon Hub Locker+. I ordered a few items and had them delivered to the closest Amazon Locker. I then walked there only to discover that it wasn’t a locker within a store like I’m used to, but an entire storefront with “Amazon Hub” in bold letters above it.
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So I’m 3 years into my retirement and my nomad journey and I’m still constantly trying to improve things – I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t . Living out of a 40L backpack is a constant learning process as I decide what I love and what I don’t even use that needs to be left behind.
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From the moment we touched down in Montréal, I was in love. Why, you ask? It only took 20 minutes from the moment I set foot in the airport to when I stepped onto the curb to be picked up – and most of that was walking, not waiting. That definitely puts Montréal in the top 3 for the efficient international air travel arrival that I’ve experienced.
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My investigation of random travel experiences continues . And this time, it’s the Canadian edition! I took a weekend trip to Ottawa and decided to take the train back so this is a recap of my first time using a Canadian train company, VIA Rail Canada, on a trip between those two cities. Let’s see what happened! Continue reading “Review: VIA Rail Canada Train – Ottawa to Montréal”
I’ve visited Chicago several times in the past and for some reason never loved it. So when a college friend invited us to a wedding in Chicago, we decided to live there a month to investigate why I didn’t love it in the past, and see if I could change my opinion. Continue reading “Slow Travel Review: Chicago, IL, USA – The Land Of Pizza And Waterways”
I don’t know why, but I still like to think I understand cities before I visit them…and that’s dumb . I’ve been proven wrong again and again and yet…here I am thinking the same thing. Hubris. I had never visited the California capital of Sacramento before, and I expected it to be like the suburbs of San Fran, where I’d visited during my childhood, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Continue reading “Slow Travel Review: Sacramento, CA – The Land Of Flowers & Sunshine”
A lot of things have surprised me since I landed in Sacramento at the beginning of April. One of which was that not many people talk about this amazing city. Another one was that it has 50 breweries. For a city that only has 500,000 people and that I can walk across in an hour, I find that very impressive . Continue reading “The Best Breweries I Visited In Sacramento, CA”