(Featured Photo: The San Antonio River Walk, San Antonio, TX) While we weren’t officially a thing yet, my spouse and I dove in hard on whether we’d make a good couple: we decided on a several-day-long road trip to Yosemite National Park, the California Gold Country, and the San Francisco Bay Area together. The experience must’ve went well, because we scheduled an even longer road … Continue reading A Pen At Ten (Pt. 2) – Road Tripping
As alluded to in Part 1 of this post, we traveled to California this year without much of a hard-set schedule, and it ended up thwarting our plans to seek out some the Bay Area specific culinary treasures, especially Burmese food. The San Francisco Bay Area is rich with this cuisine, with eateries from Corte Madera to Benicia in the north, to Livermore and San … Continue reading The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 2)
To hear some politically-motivated people of a certain ilk talk, you’d think Chicago, the nation’s third largest city at three million people and a metro area of nearly 9.5 million, is a consistently raging hellhole of uncontrolled gun violence in the heart of this country. Others look at the city’s history of machine politics and generally left-leaning views with disgust. Of course, these are the … Continue reading The Second City Doesn’t Care What You Think (Midwest Travels 2023, Pt. 2)
It had been four years since we visited Asheville in any meaningful way, and we figured that a one day stop was more than worth it. Of course, things have changed a fair amount since our last visit (Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar is now like 7 minutes from our place in Columbus vs. 7 hours away in Asheville), but as it turned out, … Continue reading Chatt Session Pt. 3: Ashes to Asheville
Just for now I’d like to restIn the shade of a maple treeTo the blue Canadian skyI’ll say a prayer for the world out thereWhen I walk the hill so highAround the town where I was bornNew York seems so far awayThough I was there just yesterdayI would travel all my lifeIf loneliness was not the priceWhile headin’ north across that line’sThe only time I’m … Continue reading Canada/US Relations: Final Vacation Notes
“I have to come and see youmaybe once or twice a yearI think nothing would suit me betterthan some downtown atmosphereIn the dance halls and the galleriesOr betting in the OTBSynchronized like magicGood friends you and me” “GOOD FRIENDS” – Joni Mitchell When doing research for our trip, I found quite a few helpful resources, including the BlogTO YouTube channel and website itself. Their site … Continue reading Just Scratching The Surface: Toronto Pt. 2
Lithopolis, Ohio and its roughly 1,600 people have a pretty nice Mexican restaurant within city limits in El Pedregal Almost every small town seems to have at least one. One what, you ask? In this case, I refer to the random international restaurant or two that provides a prospective diner a break from the plethora of fast food, diners, and pizza joints that tend to … Continue reading Seekh The Unique: Everest Cuisine (Worthington, OH)
An original and somewhat worse-for-wear mileage marker located outside the National Road and Zane Grey Museum in Norwich, OH The long road trip test isn’t always recommended for potential relationship testing, but it will almost always give you a definitive answer about viability of a partnership after a single experience. Our first road trip together covered at least 500 miles over a several day period. … Continue reading From Zane’s Trace to Outer Space: A Journey into Muskingum County
Despite signs of slowing growth, craft breweries are most certainly still a thing. According to an article in USA Today, the craft beer industry surpassed the 7,000 operating breweries by the end of 2018, according to the Brewers Association. Furthermore, the Association expects another thousand or so breweries will join the fray by the end of 2019. And while Ohio may not match the sheer … Continue reading Triple-Hopped: On The Ohio Summer Brewery Prowl
As Abe Lincoln famously said, “Go Explore, Young Man” Leaving Pittsburgh and traveling eastward through Pennsylvania, we firmly had several National Parks in our sights as our main destinations. When it comes to the United States, the amount of and virtual age of this history tends to grow as you trek toward the Atlantic Ocean. On this trip, we ended up spanning the historical timeline, … Continue reading Stuck in the Middle With You: Keystone State Travels
criticalricetheory.com 