After planning a trip for so many months, it’s always a little depressing when you return home and realize it’s over. That’s how I felt after returning from my trip to Detroit and Windsor. That trip was an incredible adventure that saw me visit many new places, including the state of Michigan for the first time, as well as some new parts of the province of Ontario.
My first-ever trip to Philadelphia, PA was a short trip filled with a few bus issues, a good hockey game, plenty of US history and some beautiful fall foliage.
I already wrote about my struggles with Megabus over this trip, but to sum it up: the schedule changed, and I was never informed, so we left Buffalo about two hours later than I anticipated. I didn’t sleep at all on the bus ride, which was quite miserable, and we made two stops, arriving in the City of Brotherly Love around 7 a.m.
Continue reading “The City of Brotherly Love – Philadelphia, October 2014”
Anyone who’s either known me or followed this blog long enough knows that I travel via bus on a fairly regular basis. As someone without a driver’s license, and with the price of cars, gas, and the like, it’s just pretty easy to hop a bus and rely on them to take me where I want to go. Whether it’s Toronto, NYC, Pittsburgh or elsewhere, I usually don’t mind taking the bus places.
In the past two weeks, I did two bus trips. First was a round-trip to Philadelphia via Megabus; the next, a trip to Detroit and Windsor (and home) via Greyhound. Overall, these trips were wonderful, but they were lessened slightly by extremely aggravating bus situations.
Continue reading “Dear Megabus/Greyhound, WTF. – No Love, Me”
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend TEDx Buffalo, held at the Montante Cultural Center on the campus of Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. I’m honestly so thrilled that my application was accepted; it was a pleasure to be able to attend such an event, and I walked out of the day feeling absolutely inspired and so happy to see all the passionate people and ideas in the local community.
This past Friday, I went to see “The Maze Runner” in theaters as it first came out.
Having read all the books in James Dashner’s series, I was extremely excited to go see the film, compare it to the book and see how things matched up.
I’m usually pretty hard to please with film adaptations of books, but this time — I wasn’t disappointed. Dylan O’Brien played the perfect Thomas, all the young actors were incredible, and I thought the film generally stayed quite true to the book.
Be forewarned – there may be spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen the film or read the book.
thoughts of Melissa 