Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast

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...

Virgin Voyages Review: The Ultimate DINK Guide to Adults-Only Cruising December 22, 2025 This post covers Episode 11 of Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast. Listen to the full episode for complete details, stories, and our honest Virgin Voyages review. Announcement: We're officially Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast! After 10 episodes, we're getting clear about who we serve - DINKs (Dual Income, No Kids), empty nesters, and anyone prioritizing childfree travel NOW, not someday. We're Nathan and Alicia. We work with kids every day (Nathan teaches 900 students, Alicia works for a children's nonprofit), but we chose not to have our own. That gives us freedom to travel differently - and Virgin Voyages is the perfect example of adults-only travel done right. Listen to Episode 11 for our complete Virgin Voyages experience, including Alicia's hilarious drinking game story and why Nathan thinks The Test Kitchen migh...