Quebec City

July 22, 2022 For our first full weekend in Canada, we traveled to Quebec City with our Montreal-local friends Emma and Darren. Getting there on a Friday night, we spent our first few hours in the town exploring the area outside our Airbnb on Rue Saint-Joseph where we ate some poutine, spoke with a...

Downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal doesn’t have the most impressive skyline or any imposing structures for that matter. But for what it lacks in skyscrapers, it more than makes up for with its eclectic makeup of architecture, restaurants, events, and culture. There is the very long and lively Sainte Catherine St. that is packed every weekend with...

Syracuse

The jumping-off point Our week-long stop in Syracuse was used to prep for our impending stay in Canada and get a glimpse of the glacially-formed Finger Lakes, the Erie Canal, and upstate New York. We also successfully jumped in to Lake Ontario and can now claim we’ve been in all five of the Great...