Washington DC: Tourist Attractions

May 30, 2019 by Wander + Roam in Washington DC

We’ve said it before, but we really can’t believe it’s taken us so long to go to DC - especially since it’s just a few hours away! Seeing the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument felt so surreal because I am so used to seeing them in books and on TV (especially since I’m a school teacher and teach about them!) yet it was my first time in real life. Although there were crowds of…

San Francisco: Tourist Attractions

September 06, 2018 by Wander + Roam in San Francisco

We started planning a trip to San Francisco in the spring to celebrate Nick’s birthday. Every year for our birthdays, we give each other “experience gifts” instead of a material gift. His birthday was in June, which makes this end-of-August trip a little late, but it was the only time we could go this summer. Neither of us have ever been to San Francisco (Nick had been outside SF last year…