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When we visit Alaska in the summer, an annual thing in our family (see Alaska posts), one of the big adjustments is to what we're heard referred to as 'Alaska Time.' As a result of the long summer days, the sun going down at like midnight in July, people stay up late and then sleep in well into the morning. For us this has frequently meant we can get up at, I don't know, 7am (aka 10am in Minnesota), go into town, get some coffee and/or breakfast, mill around a little while, t

We made it. After leaving Minnesota last Saturday afternoon (we're crazy and also did a birthday party first) we made it to Arizona. It took something like 53 total hours, 24 active driving, and involved transversing more than 1500 miles before we reached my parents summer home in the mountains Monday evening. That felt like the end of the long journey, even though it wasn't the final actual destination. Tuesday afternoon we tagged on the last couple hours and landed at last

As written about previously (see Leaving home , The best decision we ever made , Where we're supposed to be for a few examples), my wife and I are both from Minnesota originally and live here now, but have experienced life elsewhere. To friends outside the state that probably doesn't seem all that notable but most Minnesotans never leave, and if they do they frequently come back. It's cultural. Though moving away was difficult for me I grew to love living out east, largely b

As I've said in the past (The Cactus League), we have family in Arizona and we travel down with some regularity, maybe once a year. At...

We suddenly have plenty of family in Phoenix. My sister has lived there a while and her family has been growing. Her in-laws are all there. Now my parents made the leap to the desert after living their entire lives in Minnesota. This is our primary reason to travel (or perhaps move) there and we just got back from another excursion. It certainly doesn't hurt the weather is lovely this time of year while winter persists in Minnesota. There's also another reason I really like A