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Montreal, Canada: The Trip That Started It All

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Montreal, Canada: The Trip That Started It All This post accompanies Episode 27 of Marrying Your Passions, "Montreal Travel Guide: Old Montreal, Mont Royal & Notre Dame Basilica." Listen to the full conversation for the stories, the laughs, and everything we could not fit into this post. Nathan and Alicia visiting Mont Royal way back in 2006. Their first trip EVER together as a couple! Before marriage. Before the 50 state marathon quest. Before any of it, there was Montreal. This one goes back further than almost anything else we've ever written about. Back to August 2006, when we took our very first trip together as a couple, and back again to 2023, when we finally made it back and got to see it all with completely different eyes. Where It All Began It was the summer between Nathan's undergraduate and graduate degrees, and Alicia was already in law school. We'd been officially dating for about five or six months, honestly probably less than that when the tri...