Posts tagged with: travel

Visiting the Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room

March 10, 2017 · by Justin Hankins

In 2014, Starbucks launched the Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room in Seattle. Located nine blocks from the modest, original Starbucks location, this 15,000-square-foot flagship tasting room serves as a love letter to coffee and a shrine for rare and small batch offerings that are difficult to find elsewhere. Oh yeah… it also has free […]

How to park overnight in Whistler Blackcomb

January 12, 2017 · by Justin Hankins

If you’re traveling to Whistler in the winter and staying for an extended period of time, you’ll soon discover that hotel rates for overnight parking in Whistler push beyond $39/day. That’s ~$300 bucks for a week’s worth of parking you could otherwise spend eating waffles and feeding Whisky Jacks! Boooo! Unfortunately, the cheaper day-lot Whistler […]

2015 Traverse City Winter Comedy Festival

March 3, 2015 · by Justin Hankins

I just returned from the 2015 Winter Comedy Arts Festival up in Traverse City, Michigan. To celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary, and with perfect comedic timing, Mother Nature delivered a winter punch of terrific proportions, with temperatures down to -20°F, wind chills down to -40°F, and wind gusts pushing 60 mph. Guffaw! Traverse City’s Front […]