Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

Gorgeous Coffee in St. Louis.

Update (Mar 2023): While doing blog gardening I saw this post and thought I should have called out what coffee shop had this “gorgeous coffee”. I was sure it wasn’t from Sump Coffee. I wasn’t sure if I could figure it out but I looked at the phot and found the location data. It was taken at 2103 Cherokee Street in Saint Louis. Sump is actually just a few blocks away from that location. There is currently a coffee shop called The Mud House there, but that name doesn’t ring any bells and who knows if that was there 10 years ago. We may never know what shop made this delicious combo.

Two lattes with latte art in brown ceramic cups on saucers, a biscotti on a wooden board, a spoon, and two glasses of water on a wood table.

First trip to Kharkiv to meet #teamsps was awesome! So much talent and enthusiasm. Great time!

Boarded ✈️ in KBP to AMS. The exit door of this airplane is very cold. Weather in Ukraine feels identical to Minnesota.

✈️ UIA plane headed to AMS.

2.5 + 3.5 + 4.5 + 3.75 = approximate hours of sleep for each day of this trip. (Crazy tired.)

Just landed in MSP! Long day of flying!

Customs, then Baggage claim, then Uber, then big hugs at home!

Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 at a snowy airport gate with jet bridge attached, winter conditions on tarmac