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Category: On the Road

Traveling, day-trips, budget friendly, planning.

Pacific Northwest Thanksgiving: Vancouver

  • By Jennifer
  • 8 January, 2016
  • 2 Comments

We’ve come to part three, the final leg of our Thanksgiving tour of the Pacific Northwest. I don’t know why I have such a strong impulse to say we. You’re … Continue Reading →

Chihuly Garden and Glass and Space Needle

Pacific Northwest Thanksgiving: Seattle

  • By Jennifer
  • 9 December, 2015
  • 1 Comment

If you’re just joining us, we (that’s the royal we) are recounting a Pacific Northwest trip taken over Thanksgiving week last year (2014). After bumming around Portland and the Willamette … Continue Reading →

Bailey's Taproom beer Portland OR

Pacific Northwest Thanksgiving: Portland and the Willamette Valley

  • By Jennifer
  • 28 November, 2015
  • 2 Comments

Last fall we took a look at our calendars and decided that going home for both Christmas AND Thanksgiving would be a little too much for us, but we didn’t … Continue Reading →

Irish Moon

  • By Jennifer
  • 20 April, 2015
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The first two days of our honeymoon in Ireland included trips around Galway, The Burren, to the Cliffs of Moher and Poulnabrone Dolmen. Onward did we go to… Day 3: Ballyseede … Continue Reading →

Poulnabrone Dolmen, Ireland

Irish Honey

  • By Jennifer
  • 12 April, 2015
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This is only… one and a half years late but, uh, here it is: One time, Richard and I got suuuper married and then went to Ireland. Why choose Ireland … Continue Reading →

Snow on IU campus in Bloomington IN

Back home again

  • By Jennifer
  • 11 January, 2015
  • 2 Comments

Richard and I went home to Bloomington, IN to spend Christmas with our families. Last year was the first time I’d ever gone home for the holidays since I’d always previously… … Continue Reading →

Russian Hill Estate with gecko

Dog wine tasting in the Russian River Valley

  • By Jennifer
  • 10 October, 2014
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Wait, that kind of sounds like we were tasting dog wine. I don’t think that’s a thing. What I meant to say was that we and our dog went wine … Continue Reading →

Charlie in the grass

Bluegrass in wine country

  • By Jennifer
  • 9 April, 2014
  • 4 Comments

When last you left me I was ranting about the musicians Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott (I GUESS I SHOULD LINK HERE SO YOU CAN CATCH UP). Well it just … Continue Reading →

Moss Beach Distillery

Half Moon Bay

  • By Jennifer
  • 24 November, 2013
  • 2 Comments

Ricardo and I were invited to go camping one weekend in October, but because we left all of our gear in Indiana and we’re too cheap to buy new stuff, … Continue Reading →

Yosemite TRAGEDY

  • By Jennifer
  • 27 April, 2013
  • 2 Comments

In my wrap-up of our Easter weekend trip to Yosemite (see parts 1 and 2), I alluded to a CRIMINAL event committed by a DEVIOUS WILD FORCE OF EVIL upon … Continue Reading →

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