Category: Road Trip

One word: IKEA. Forget that our main destination in Minnesota was the Mall of America, the IKEA right across the street drove everything else out of my mind, and I insisted on going there first. It was with a heavy heart that, three hours later, I abandoned the showrooms (and meatballs) of my favorite blue-and-yellow…

Chipotle is rapidly becoming my taste of home on this trip. I accompanied B&C to Legoland, which turned out to be geared for 2-12 year olds. Nonetheless, we had a good time, and were en route to Minnesota by lunchtime. We stopped by Brennan’s Market and the Alp & Dell store in Monroe, Wisconsin, to…

Let me just say that we have been to nearly every science and industry museum east of the Mississippi. We’re members of the Schenectady Museum, which grants us free or reduced admission to hundreds of museums across America. Determined to get her money’s worth, my mother has been taking us to museums since I can…

One of my favorite books is The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. (If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it! Just make sure to have a box of tissues handy.) Most of the book takes place in Chicago, and there are plenty of references to real Chicago locations and landmarks (e.g. Millennium Park,…

We spent most of the morning on the road, and ended up making the happy discovery that E-Z Passes still work in Indiana! It’s not the most momentous of discoveries, but I figure that with the number of toll plazas we’ve gone through since leaving Albany, it could probably save us a few hours of…