Voyage Junkie

Matt and I came back from a quick trip to Montreal yesterday, and I wanted to jot down our trip for anyone who needs recommendations in the future! We discovered the Passeport Montreal , which is a 2 or 3 day pass card for the city. It covers tons of interesting sites, museums, and activities, all while providing a transit pass valid on all metro and bus lines. We have a history of loving city passes (see our Osaka trip from 2011 for example), and jumped at the chance to experience the city this way. We were able to easily purchase the pass from an infotouriste center at Peel, and immediately began using it. We chose to visit the following sites: Jardin Botanique These are a series of outside gardens and indoor greenhouses. We took a whole morning and explored the grounds, and could have done much more. The photo above is from the Japanese gardens, as we sat at a viewing pavilion. The gardens are easy to get to from the green metro line, and just a wonderful place to be. MAC

I have not posted for seven years since leaving Japan. I have been through a lot, as has Matt, and we've begun a little bit of traveling again in order to reconnect and heal. I have been re-doing this blog and stumbled upon this post, that I started but never posted, a few months after our return. I chose not to change it, since I liked the words from my younger, more carefree self. Enjoy! Nearly three months after leaving Japan and the better part of two since our Germany tour, I am finally finishing up the Germany-themed posts!  It's been a whirlwind few months that feels much longer.  Now we're looking back on two years of incredible travels and experiences, trying to find work in our strangely inhospitable native country, wondering... what's next?  And what better to do at a time like this but to look back fondly at travels through a functionally stable, health-care-providing country! Regensburg was beautiful like all the other cities we visited in sout