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I don't think I've felt as much anticipation for any festival as much as the 2022 edition of Electric Forest. The last time I'd been there was in 2018, and it was certainly my favorite festival of that year. In 2019 I was living in Germany, and didn't feel that Forest was quite worth the long trip, as amazing as I'm sure it was. Then in 2020 and 2021 it never happened, because of that inescapable pandemic. By 2022, not only had such a long time passed, but the music lineup was just as loaded as Tomorrowland and Untold.

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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.

  1. Deutsches Museum
  2. Finishing the Munich Visit, and a Night in Frankfurt
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