Going into last Friday, I expected to be on a road trip from Charlotte to Chicago. Hurricane Helene blew up those plans, so with no plan in mind, we set out westward on the morning of Friday, September 27. Despite having no plan, the trip was amazing, and we packed the days full.
I was VERY excited about our next trip. Flying to Charlotte, North Carolina. Driving home over the course of five days, stopping at famous sites like the Biltmore, Pigeon Forge, and Nashville, hitting a dozen highly rated escape rooms along the way. Then it all fell apart.
I’ve mentioned a few times before how stickers are one of my favorite escape room souvenirs. Simple, easy, and suitable to multiple purposes, stickers make a great way to remember a solved room.
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned how the Sherlock Holmes escape book might be my favorite at-home escape room option. I read through the first book and very quickly picked up The Adventure of the British Museum. Then a long time passed. I don’t recall the exact manner in which I found out, but I discovered not one, but TWO new books in the series that were released without my knowledge!
This weekend was a delightful adventure the likes of which I haven’t had in a while. I often forget how much there is to do around Madison and the Wisconsin Dells, and after this weekend, I’m not sure I ever had a full understanding of it in the first place. Somehow, we explored a few new places yet left with even more unexplored landmarks we want to return to.
I have an unusual report today- a neat thrift store find that has enriched many late evenings over the course of my last few weeks- Montague Island Mysteries. It practically jumped off the shelf at me at St. Vincent De Paul, and it’s been a remarkably pleasant blind purchase.
Today’s memento is an item from one of the more novel approaches to escape rooms in the area. City 13 is one of the biggest and most elaborate escape room venues in the midwest, if not the United States. They’re best known for their 4+ hour Save the City game, but Kandy Corps is quite novel as well.
I’m going to make a bold claim- You’ve Been Played, by Adrian Hon, is the best nonfiction book I’ve read in years. The last book I got this much value from was Thinking Fast and Slow, the seminal work of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. I don’t make that comparison lightly.
I was excited about the opportunity to go to Transworld. Primarily known as a haunted house convention, Transworld also branches out into other interactive entertainment, most notably escape rooms.
Looking through my odds and ends, I stumbled across a pretty interesting glimpse of a future that wasn’t to be – a flyer for the “Escape Room Passport” app. I picked up the flyer at EscapeRoomPassport’s booth at the escape room convention in August 2016.
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