TRAVELING WITH THE PEARONS
Valeri here, starting out our last entry for this trip. I’m a little surprised at how much I enjoyed Austin. I wasn’t quite in the “Texas Is the Worst” category like Matthew, but it doesn’t necessarily excite me either. I was most excited to get away, to see our friends and to experience some new
Hello! Matthew here, checking in from ATX. Today’s itinterary was probably the loosest one we’ve ever had. We only had three events actually planned and actually only did two of them. For the rest, we threw schedules, timetables and all other scheduling to the wind … and by “the wind,” I mean “other people”. Basically,
Valeri here … Something I always seem to forget is how late we tend to stay up when hanging out with Ricky. We’ve been known to part ways at 1 a.m. … especially when Matthew and Ricky are in the middle of their “geek time.”This time, it wasn’t quite that late, but it was after
Hello there! Matthew here, to report on all the third day in Austin brought us.The logical first part of this entry is going to be breakfast, so I’ll start there. Did you know that heaven actually exists inside a food truck? I can honestly say I had absolutely no idea until this morning.I’m about to
I, Valeri Pearon, have a problem …I’m the person who will make you wake up at 6 a.m. for a sunrise, and I’m not sorry about it. I woke us up super early this morning to grab coffee and make it to Mount Bonnell for the sunrise. As the highest point in Austin, it is
Hey there! Welcome to yet another adventure with the Pearons!Sit down, relax and prepare yourself for what we can only imagine will consist of tumbleweeds and cowboy hats, because we’re headed to Austin, Texas. Matthew here! I’ll be your guide for Day One of Surviving Austin … so don your Stetson and strap on your
Hello, Val here. Every good morning starts out with coffee, especially when you live with a Matthew. What makes the experience even better is when you find a quirky little shop in an old brick building that looks like it used to be a garage. Although this place didn’t offer decaf and the guy suggested
Hello there! This is Matthew, checking in from Indianapolis. If you followed along with Valeri’s post from yesterday, you’ll remember that we did a lot of driving followed by a lot of walking with a bit of eating in between. Today is a bit different. As is our standard procedure for these trips, the first
Hello again, everyone! This is Val, writing from Indy. I’m not sure exactly how I did it without any push back, but I got Matthew to take another road trip. I do think mentioning a metro area with more than 2.4 million people helped a little. It’s a somewhat small roadtrip in comparison to our
Hello! Matthew here, checking on our last official day of vacation. The day started … wait for it … ON TIME! Yes, we finally woke up on time. On the very last day, we figured out how to not be bad at vacation. Typical.Anyway, we woke up on time to put the finishing touches on
Val here. Bear with me as I try to knock out this second to last post of Chicago. 9:30 a.m. • Arbor We were a little confused when we first walked into this building because the coffee shop isn’t the only thing there. It looked to be the lobby to an apartment building at first,
Matthew here, checking in from the Windy City. Day Seven has come to a close and it’s been … well, a day. I’ll give you a quick rundown of what happened. As you can probably guess, we didn’t get up on time — again. I have absolutely no idea why this has been so hard
9:15 a.m. • Osmium So I was pretty sure this place was called Osmium (as it says online and it’s also printed on their window), but their sign out front and their cups say Dark Matter Coffee. * Note: Matthew just told me it’s Dark Matter Coffee presents Osmium. That’s not confusing at all. Other
Hello, and welcome to the fifth entry of Surviving Chicago! This is Matthew, checking in from Chicago. Well, we got up late again. It was by about 30 minutes — which seems to be the magic number of tardiness for this trip. If you’ve been following along with our previous entries, you’ll remember that this
Hello, friends!This is Val … let’s talk about today. 8:30 a.m.• Cafe UmbriaThis place is in walking distance from our Airbnb, which was nice. It looks like they built their idea around shipping crates, with a slightly modern touch.It’s also a roaster, so Matthew was first drawn to the huge roaster in the other room.
Hello! This is Matthew checking in from the bustling metropolis that is Chicago. Welcome to Day Three. Today has been full … of rain drops. Thankfully, we aren’t talking deluge-level rain — more of a constant light mist, occasionally tipping into a bit more. You know the medium-low setting on your stove? Kind of like
Hello all, this is Val. I’ve decided to take a little different approach for my posts this trip … mainly to avoid the hassle that is transitions. I don’t like to think that hard this late at night. My posts will be written as they’re happening. Hopefully this helps me remember what I enjoyed about
Welcome to another adventure with the Pearons! Matthew here, and I’ll be your guide for Day One. If you’ve followed along with us before, you know the drill. If you’re new here, I’ll give you a quick rundown. We love to travel — be it across the country or across the globe, we’re ready to
This last post will be a joint effort, but Val will start us off. Our day technically started in the wee morning hours as we finished up at the Rebirth Brass Band concert. It was … wow. Not just the band — which was epic — but the atmosphere just made you smile. I’m actually
Good afternoon! Matthew here, checking in from Downtown New Orleans. Today’s blog is a little different, since I’m writing it significantly earlier than normal. I try my hardest to squeeze the very last bit of useful time out of each and every day — even if that means sitting down to write the blog nigh
