San Diego was a great reminder that if you've been to a city only for work trips-- that you haven't really been to a city. I'd only ever been...

When you hear the words 'Oklahoma City,' what do you think of? I'll wait. If you were born in the 80s or before, you might think of the heinous...

At some point, I realized that I'd never spent any time in Oklahoma. When out there on the road, that's honestly sometimes how I decide where to go next....

“Mistake on the Lake.” “We’d all like to flee The Cleve” “Blight City” Nobody has typically said stellar things about Cleveland, the city that produced cars and steel back in the 60s,...

I decided to spend a day in Buffalo, New York, to spend a little time in an American city that used to be at the very center of goings-on...

I'd only been to the Pride festivals in the past in major, progressive-leaning cities. Which, in retrospect, seemed like an oversight-- and one I could easily remedy being in the...

There are so many places in America that feel exactly like other places in America.  Sometimes, when in the outer suburban reaches of various cities, I feel my sense of...

When a friend tells you they need to go to Mobile, Alabama to pick up a large volume of kitchen things from their family that can’t be shipped (without...

In nearly a year of travel, I find I keep coming back and back to Albuquerque. It seems like I've been there in every season at this point....

Las Vegas: city of spectacle and misery. Usually more the latter than the former. I'll start out by saying: I am not a fan of Vegas generally. I was...

One of the real blessings of the van is being able to 'drop in' on friends. Adult friendships-- particularly the difficulty of seeing one another as frequently as we'd...

I can't say enough good things about Tucson. Having spent time in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and other Arizona cities this year-- there's just no place in the state as good...

Sedona is a geographic accident that offers the most striking AND lowest-effort nature selfies. Which means it mostly draws Instagram-mers in vibrant dresses (selected to offset the red of...

According to the Guininess Book of World Records, Yuma, Arizona is the "Sunniest City on Earth." It is estimated that 91% of their year is sunny and warm-- which also...

Mac, Moon, and I loved spending time with friends in Palm Springs. Mac had no less than 5 dogs in and out of the house over the weeks to...

Having lived in the Northwest for years, through rain and bleak days of unrelenting clouds from November to May-- both Moon and I really learned the value of sunshine...

Los Angeles-- a city I've visited plenty of times-- for work, for pleasure travel, and to see old friends. And it's the place Moon grew up, so neither of...

Texarkana is a city literally split in half, straddling two state borders. Having traveled to Texas for over a decade for work, I can attest that even Texans are...

One of the most historically-significant cities in history, Memphis has a ton to offer to visitors who are keen to soak up the past in order to help make...

Nashville is a city that is made of full-on energy, non-stop. I'd been to Nashville more than a few times for work, but rarely got to see much of...

One of the cities that charmed us the most thus far was Louisville, Kentucky. A small city with a humble vibe, in which everyone was very open and accessible--...

"Oma-HA!! Oma-HA!!" Moon did not get the Eli Manning reference. I did it again for good measure: "Oma-HA!!" Moon blinked repeatedly. No dice. Like a tree falling in the forest, a...