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#Schummer14: Day 4-6 recap Summer of Schnyder
We don’t have full, unlimited access to the Internet while in Canada, so I decided to use that as a good excuse not to post for a couple of days! We had wifi at the condo in Toronto so I did take some time each night to post a few photos from the day on Instagram. While it’s nice to unplug sometimes, it’s amazing how many times during the day walking around a city I want to grab my phone and look up directions, the history of something, restaurant reviews, etc. Day 4 through Day 6 were spent in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’d visited the city (Canada’s largest city…
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#Schummer14: Day 2 recap Summer of Schnyder
Day 2 = 367 miles. We spent half the day in Dubuque, Iowa, then drove through Illinois, the top edge of Indiana and into Michigan before stopping for the night. If you read one of my pre-trip posts you might remember that I said we were making one stop at the front of the trip for a small research project related to work. I have a magazine client who is interested on an article about what there is to do for a family or couple flying into the Dubuque area so I wanted to spend a few hours exploring. Dubuque, right on the border of Illinois, is Iowa’s oldest city. We spent…
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#Schummer14: Day 1 recap Summer of Schnyder
The first day of our Summer of Schnyder (#Schummer14) road trip was about moving north and east. We left Wichita at 9 a.m. and arrived at the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa, at about 7:30 p.m. Along the way we stopped for lunch at Woodyard BBQ in Kansas City and dinner at Tony’s LaPizzeria in Cedar Falls. We opted for Cedar Falls because Wichita State’s Missouri Valley Conference opponent UNI is located there so Lee thought it would be fun to stop. Plus, we figured a town with a college should have good pizza. We were right — Tony’s pizza was worth the detour off the highway. It…
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#Schummer14: what it took to prep for the Summer of Schnyder
On Friday of last week, I hit send on an email submitting the final two articles that I owed my clients and FINALLY felt like I could exhale and shift my focus to preparing to be gone for 30 days. It was the same feeling I remember having each semester of college when I would take my last final. And similar to how I felt the last day of work before the mandatory three-week furlough all Cessna employees took in the summer of 2009. It’s a feeling of freedom, of not owing anyone any work for weeks and knowing work stuff won’t be piled up when I get back. If…
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#Schummer14: Frequently Asked Questions (pre-trip edition)
Here are a few of the questions we’ve heard most often when telling folks about our plan to spend 30 days in July and August away from work and on a road trip. Why are you doing this? We are taking 30 days off to travel because we can and because traveling is fun and energizing to us. {social commentary: the way people react to our trip has been insightful about their personal views on life and work. We are thankful to all who have been open-minded about our opportunity rather than projecting their insecurities onto us.} Where are you going? We’ll be in Toronto and Montreal first, then we’ll drive…