2015 was a great year for me in terms of travel. My travels brought me to two continents, seven new countries and many new cities. While I love new stamps in my passport (which I also had to get a new one once I got home from Europe in June), travel isn’t about how many countries I can cramp into …
Montreal Reunion – #poutinecrawl2015
If you travel a lot, especially as a solo traveler, you tend to make fast friends on the road. Some are just there to swap travel stories while throwing back local beers while others are the ones you walk through the jungle with looking for ancient ruins and rare birds. Travel friends are unique. You are often together for a …
Exploring Montreal in 48 Hours
Montreal is a short 5+ hour drive from Portland, Maine. Five hours may seem like a long time for you city slickers, but in Maine, 5 hours is nothing. It takes 2 hours to get to Bangor or 3.5 hours to get to beautiful Bar Harbor and Downeast Maine. Hell, it takes 7+ hours to drive from Portland to Fort …
Climbing the Hill in Parc du Mont-Royal, Montreal
I’m not a city girl. I grew up in the suburbs on 8 acres of land with horses. I don’t do the concrete jungle well. I enjoy visiting cities, but only one so far as my heart…. and that’s you New Orleans. New York is just too much for me, but New Orleans is full of history, music, food, and …
Basking in the Blue Light of the Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
Montreal has historically been a Catholic city. It was first settled in the mid-1600s as a Catholic mission to evangelize the natives. Today, about 70% of its residents identify themselves as Catholic and the city is quite populated with churches. I can actually track my grandfather’s (father’s father) side of the family back to the late 1600s in Montreal and …
Dodging Traffic in Search of Montreal Street Art
A few weeks ago my girl friends and I hopped into a car and drove the 5+ hours from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Canada. I’ve been to Canada several times before, but never to Montreal so I was quite excited to see what the city had to offer. October isn’t exactly the ideal time to visit a Canadian city, but …