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3 weeks ago | 
insidehook.com | Matt Kirouac
It turns out criss-crossing the country on a multi-state road trip in the midst of a heated election cycle was a rather surreal experience. Along with my husband, I took a huge leap this past summer into a life of semi-nomadism. We spiffed up our home in Oklahoma City to list on Airbnb, allowing us to travel more freely.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigrapidsnews.com | Matt Kirouac
Unintentionally, our road trip felt like a campaign blitz, but instead of wooing voters, we were doing something far more authentic: connecting with our community far and wide, in places new and old. Being recently back in O.K.C, incidentally right before the election, I look back on our Big Gay Road Trip with so much fondness and Pride, and most importantly, much hope for our great big complicated country.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Matt Kirouac
When I was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, summers meant road trips to Prince Edward Island, where my nana grew up and where she always maintained a sense of home. She and I shared a kindred connection and the same birthday. I even inherited her Chevy Cavalier as my first car, complete with her “PEI” vanity plate. For years, Canada’s smallest province was a joyous family escape, marked by breezy beach days, camping playgrounds and family friends stopping by to drop off homemade biscuits.
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3 weeks ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Matt Kirouac
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3 weeks ago | 
theifp.ca | Matt Kirouac
When I was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, summers meant road trips to Prince Edward Island, where my nana grew up and where she always maintained a sense of home. She and I shared a kindred connection and the same birthday. I even inherited her Chevy Cavalier as my first car, complete with her “PEI” vanity plate. For years, Canada’s smallest province was a joyous family escape, marked by breezy beach days, camping playgrounds and family friends stopping by to drop off homemade biscuits.
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3 weeks ago | 
afar.com | Matt Kirouac
While the U.S. presidential candidates barnstormed through swing states in 2024, my husband and I—a gay couple based in Oklahoma City—crisscrossed America on a campaign of our own. Planning to spend more time in my home state of New Hampshire, we listed our house on Airbnb and hit the road for six months.
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4 weeks ago | 
405magazine.com | Matt Kirouac
Summer in Oklahoma City is the season for road trips and lazy lake days, for ice cream cones and patios. It’s also high time for a frozen cocktail. As the temperature rises, so too does our appetite for icy drinks, and fortunately for us, OKC is teeming with crafty versions of the cold stuff. Here’s where you should be drinking — and what to order — this summer. As much a rite of passage for OU students as it is for bar-goers in need of refreshment, The Mont is the stuff of potable legend.
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4 weeks ago | 
nationalgeographic.com | Matt Kirouac
When the first settlers came to the Sierra Nevada foothills in the late 1840s, they came for gold. Decades after the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, a different crop of settlers—including artists, musicians, and LGBTQ+ people—came looking for something other than precious metal. History runs deep in Nevada City, a hilly, pine-scented community of barely 3,000, which boomed in 1849 upon the arrival of early settlers like Captain John Pennington and William McCaig.
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1 month ago | 
midwestliving.com | Matt Kirouac
Historic buildings line the streets in downtown Paducah, a Kentucky town along the Ohio River. Photo: Courtesy of Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau Driving through the pastoral farmland of Western Kentucky, hopscotching into nearby Illinois and Missouri, I would have never guessed that one of just nine UNESCO Creative Cities in the U.S. awaited around the river bend.
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1 month ago | 
plateonline.com | Matt Kirouac
In New York City, Jared Ian Stafford-Hill introduced Saint Urban, a wine-focused tasting menu concept in the Flatiron. Blue Peak Villa is a new Chinese concept inspired by the culinary lineage of the Qing Dynasty, led by Jian Wu. Santiago Perez (Cosme) launches a taqueria of his own, Santo Taco, this week in Nolita. Known for its Portuguese egg tarts, the Lisbonata pop-up went permanent in Crown Heights. Bagizza... Join for free to continue reading.
