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Amtrak’s Southwest Chief is a long-haul overnight train that connects Los Angeles and Chicago, including stops in Albuquerque and Kansas City, and many other smaller cities and towns in between. Ever since I got my ticket to Electric Forest in Michigan, I’d been planning to ride this train to Chicago.
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Sonic Bloom happens every June in southern Colorado. I can't remember how I first found out about it; probably I saw it advertised at one of the many festivals I went to in the late 2010's. In 2021 I found out where and when it usually was staged, but also learned it wasn't happening that year because of the pandemic. One year later, though, Sonic Bloom was good to go and had a lineup confirmed so I bought my ticket as soon as I knew I could do it. Perfect timing, too, because it was happening on the weekend of June 17-19, exactly one week before the big event of the year, Electric Forest.
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As winter descended at the end of 2019, and everyone was blissfully unaware of the calamity that would befall us early next year, I was making plans for where I would be taking my snowboard. I really wanted to go somewhere that had hosted Olympic skiing, if not snowboarding. Two Olympic hosts were at the top of my list: Albertville, France (1992) and Lillehammer, Norway (1994). I was also looking at Torino, Italy (2006) because they actually held snowboarding events that year at the Bardonecchia ski resort; Albertville and Lillehammer only had skiing, since snowboarding didn't become an Olympic sport until 1998.
Read more: My Olympic Journey to Kvitfjell and Hafjell, Norway
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In the middle of Munich, on an island in the river Isar, there's a celebrated museum which was probably my favorite museum to visit on that side of the world. It has a humble name: Deutsches Museum, which simply means "German Museum." It is, in fact, the world's largest science and technology museum. If you ever visit Munich, you must visit this place, like I did on Friday, May 20, 2022.
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