I love these ladies. And I love when we’re able to spend a weekend together — whether we’re drinking wine on the Finger Lakes, playing tourists in Manhattan, causing trouble in Milwaukee, or returning to our alma mater — we know how to have a good time. Two weeks ago, three of us traveled north [...]
In true Emily fashion, I took several hundred photos during our five days in California. Don’t worry, I’m not going to post all of them; but I do want to share a few. On our first full day on the west coast, we visited La Jolla and Oceanside. Apparently it’s pup season, and so the [...]
We don’t mind the quaintness of our hometown’s hills, railroads, cow pastures, and corn fields. But it is nice to spend an occasional Saturday in a city with more than three stoplights and more than one decent restaurant. Late Friday night, following Nick’s district holiday party in western Pennsylvania, we drove across three rivers and [...]
(Previously: Cannstatter Volksfest and the German Jonas Brothers.) We decided to leave Germany a day early. To go to Switzerland, that is. Isn’t that one of the most attractive aspects of Europe? It’s just so easy to jaunt across the border and into another country full of its own cuisine and architecture and charm. We [...]
(Previously: We see family in Stuttgart.) Stuttgart’s city district of Bad Cannstatt hosted its first harvest festival in 1818, and just over 30,000 people attended the celebration. Today Volksfest is the biggest carnival in the world, attracting close to five million people for the 16-day event, and it is the second largest beer festival in [...]
(Previously: The end of the Romantic Road.) One of the most wonderful things about our trip to Germany — aside from the romantic castles and cobblestone streets, the liters of beer and pretzels as big as our heads, and the cowbells — was that we got to share it with friends and family. We met [...]
(Previously: We play with cows and explore castles.) We were so close to Füssen that we had to stop on our way from Schwangau to Stuttgart. The town is located on the River Lech, just three miles from the Austrian border. It’s the highest town in Bavaria and marks the end of the Romantic Road. [...]
(Let’s get back to Germany recaps, shall we?) We celebrated Oktoberfest until the music ended and the tents turned up their lights — which meant we were all in need of a caffeine boost the next morning. Mary grabbed a latte on her way to the airport, and Nick and I met Anne and Carsten [...]
We have lived outside of Altoona for eight months, but this past weekend was our first trip to the Horseshoe Curve. This famous stretch of railroad was completed in 1854 and declared an “engineering marvel.” We took the funicular to the top where we claimed seats on a park bench to wait for the trains. [...]
I previously shared reasons why we love Pennsylvania, and I have another one to add to the list: the Laurel Highlands. The Laurel Highlands are a region of the Allegheny Mountains located between Pittsburgh and our humble home of Duncansville. I lived in the area between ages 4 and 6, and Nick’s job takes him [...]