Lindsey surprised me with a road trip to Luray Caverns for the holiday weekend. She kept it a secret most the way along the trip. I finally figured it out when we started taking back roads, and the signs became quite obvious. I’m no stranger to caves. I’ve spent most my life in Missouri, which [...]
Travel
My Journey to the Las Vegas Rock n Roll Half Marathon
This was a trip a couple years in the making. Lindsey and I talked about running the Las Vegas Marathon in 2007, and we started training for it–even creating a blogging website for training (that still ranks #1 in search engines). We trained all the way to running 16 miles on the weekends before Lindsey [...]
FAIL: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign photos
While in Las Vegas for the Rock n Roll Marathon and Half Marathon, Lindsey and I took three trips out to the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign to snap some “jumping” pictures. The sign is a 10-minute walk south of Mandalay Bay along the Las Vegas Strip. I had been to Las Vegas many [...]
WorldMate for iPhone: My review of a great free travel app
If you’ve ever heard of WorldMate, you know it’s a popular travel planning and organizational service. Clearly looking at their home page, you can see they are proud to have expanded their mobile reach onto the iPhone and other mobile devices. I’m only going to review the iPhone app, which puts all your travel plans [...]
How I found the cheapest hotels in Las Vegas using Twitter
There are thousands of websites for finding the best hotels deals online, but I’ve discovered the best deals are hidden in Twitter feeds. My scenario: I’m heading to Las Vegas for the Rock n Roll Las Vegas Marathon in December, and I need a hotel for 5 days. About a month ago, I started following [...]
Spending the Day in Bardstown, Kentucky
It’s just after midnight, and I’m relaxing on the second floor porch of Talbott’s Inn in Bardstown, Kentucky. The inn is smack dab in the heart of the town, where the main road turns into a roundabout where the traffic constantly flows throughout the day and evening. Below me, one of the popular bars in [...]
Sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
As I write this post, I’m sitting on the top step of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Ever since I moved here over a year ago, I always wanted to come here with a laptop/wireless card and write. I’m not a writer by any means, but I believe these blogs help me think creatively, [...]
DC tourist recommendations
Let me start out by saying I’ve only been in the Washington, DC area for 9 months, and I live in Rockville, MD. I spend most my time traveling from Rockville to NW Washington for work, and I don’t get a lot of time to really see the city. But I will give some recommendations [...]
Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Planning a weekend afternoon away from Washington, DC is pretty easy to do, especially since the cities are so close together on the east coast. We haven’t left the metro area since we moved here, and since Lindsey was feeling better from her weeklong flu, and the weather was warmer with bright sunny skies, we [...]
Lindsey’s parents visit DC!
It’s been a couple months since we’ve seen any of our family, and this weekend Lindsey’s parents, Rocky and Vicki, drove in to see us. They arrived Friday evening, and we kicked off the weekend with a great dinner at Gordon Biersch. We caught up with life and family and shared some samples from the [...]
Odyssey: A Night Cruising The Potomac River
One of the Web sites I manage is called dvmOurTime.com. It’s a Web site devoted to those in Washington, D.C. who are baby boomers that want to enjoy life and share their stories with other members of the community. There are more than 12,000 members of this site, which launched in February of this year. [...]