Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast

REVEL Big Bear Marathon Recap: Qualifying for Boston After 30 Marathons This post goes with Episode 29 of Marrying Your Passions : The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts for the full story, including a few moments that are even better heard than read. Nathan and Alicia at the finish line of the REVEL Big Bear races back in 2021! Some races are just races. Some change your life. For us, REVEL Big Bear in Southern California was the second kind. In November 2021, Nathan lined up for his 30th marathon with one goal he had been chasing for more than a decade: qualifying for the Boston Marathon . That same morning, Alicia ran her very first half marathon down the very same mountain. With Big Bear running under the REVEL name for the last time on November 7, 2026, before the series joins Vacation Races , we wanted to look back at the race weekend that remains one of the highlights of our lives, and share what we learned for anyone thinking about running...

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...

  This post accompanies Episode 26 of Marrying Your Passions, "Tupelo & Heart of America Marathon Reviews: Elvis, Steep Hills, and 26.2 Miles." Listen to the full conversation for the stories, the laughs, and everything we could not fit into this post. Alicia and Nathan after the Heart of America Marathon way back in 2012! Labor Day weekend has always held a special place in our hearts, and for good reason. Back before we had forty plus marathons behind us, before the podcast, before running a marathon in most of the states was checked off, two Labor Day weekend races quietly became part of our story; the Tupelo Marathon and the Heart of America Marathon . These small marathons turned into two of our favorite early memories, and two races that still hold up today. Tupelo Marathon: The Race We Chose Because of Elvis We will be honest, we did not pick the Tupelo Marathon because of the course. We picked it because Alicia loves Elvis, and Tupelo happens to be where he ...