I spent twenty hours last week in Montreal. It takes ten hours to drive from Washington, D.C. to Montreal (a little more, actually, depending on customs), which left us twenty hours in the city—just long enough to realize that Montreal deserves at least a week of proper exploring.

It began with a post I discovered this spring on Craig’s List. A few phone interviews and an accepted summer position later, I decided to drive 3,000 miles in seven days from Washington, D.C. to Santa Cruz, California in late June with my sister Katrina. As I drove from my house in Charlottesville, Virginia to [...]