(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)
A few days before Christmas, my wife and I boarded an airplane for travel for the first time since 2019. Not counting the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, when we did not travel anywhere significant), we achieved something equivalent to the (unofficial) Neal & Del award, as we ended up taking a plane, a train and an automobile to go to/travel back from … Continue reading The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 1)
Delaware is more than a Presidential birthplace turned gas station My wife and I have grown to love trips up US 23 into Delaware the past several years. One of the fastest growing small towns in Ohio (with population jumping nearly 20% during the 2010 decade), downtown Delaware still has a very small town feel, something we’ve come to appreciate with other Central Ohio cities … Continue reading Crossing The Delaware (Ohio, that is…)
In a way, Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin, was going to suffer a bit in comparison to Chicago and Milwaukee for this jaunt. We have been to Madison a few times in the past decade or so of marriage, so we’ve knocked off a few things that would’ve been natural destinations (The National Mustard Museum and New Glarus Brewing come to mind.) Also, our … Continue reading A Fine Example of Capitolism (Midwest Travels 2023, Pt. 4)
Whether I visit a new city, I always try to keep a neutral perspective beforehand, even if it’s a place where I’ve heard good things about (Toronto and Asheville, NC were two such cases.) I admit I was secretly hoping Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city at roughly 570,000 residents, wouldn’t be a disappointment. Not that I want any city or town we visit to be disappointing … Continue reading Pabst, Present, and Future (Midwest Travels 2023, Pt. 3)
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)
1) I Would Drive 6,000 Miles: I admit, I didn’t picture ourselves driving to and fro from California to visit relatives after I had moved to Ohio in the early 2010s, but that just goes to show. The decision, mainly driven to airline reliability concerns, turned out to be a blessing too – Mother Nature and modern technology would’ve certainly caused us numerous headaches for … Continue reading 21 Roadtrip Tales for ‘22 (Part 1)
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
Our first time trip into Louisville and surrounds in November last year proved to be one dented by good old Mother Nature – rain squelched a lot of our planned outdoor activities, but we still made a pretty good weekend of it. This year, we picked out North Carolina as the destination, but Ma Nature must’ve figured out again we were headed south, as a … Continue reading Chatt Session Pt. 1: I’ve Got My Fare
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