Tag: family travel
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The Flip: Chicago’s playable pinball museum
Tucked into the basement of Block37, opposite the Starbucks, is a small storefront packed with pinball machines old and new. It’s not an arcade but a museum showing all variety of machines that launch steel balls onto a tilted field filled with point-scoring obstacles. It’s called The Flip, and all the machines (inside the museum)…
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Paris 2025
We returned to Paris this summer to visit our friend Maisie and her daughter Lucy. It’s been more than two years since our last visit, during my sabbatical. Catching up with these two was the primary reason for the visit. Lucy is a few months younger than László, and Danielle and Maisie are both writers,…
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Memorial Day 2025: Northern Door County
This year, the Harms Boone family annual Memorial Day camping adventure took us to Lake Michigan, somehow for the first time. We’ve had a strong preference for Lake Superior and crossing state lines in the past, so we changed it up and stayed within the boundaries of Wisconsin this time. We stayed at Wagon Trail…
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Far-western Wisconsin
A few weeks ago we visited far-western Wisconsin, the region vaguely stretching from Eau Claire north to the lake and west to the MN border. We’ve lived in Milwaukee for four full years now but have never made it that far west until now. That’s mostly because the journey is really only possible by way…
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Slovenia: so hot right now
Literally. The continent is just beginning a heatwave with a striking resemblance to the one that is (hopefully) leaving the US Southwest and Slovenia is no exception. We left a few days ago after sustained days above 80ºF and high humidity. Since then, it’s only gotten hotter. Today’s forecasted high is 94ºF, in a place…