TweetSpring break! Vacation in Arizona, March 2012 (where the temp in Chicago was warmer than Arizona most of the week). Jen had never been to the Grand Canyon, and I don’t need an excuse for Arizona in March for some spring training baseball, so there we go… let’s rent a yellow Ford Fiesta and take [...]
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TweetSummer of 2011 Jen and I decided to take a vacation down to South Beach and a cruise to the Bahamas. Neither one of us had been on any type of cruise before, so that was something we thought would be good to try. We flew down (FYI: screw Spirit Airlines) and spent the first [...]
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Tweet A while back my girlfriend Jen and I were chatting and I mentioned that I needed a vacation. “Go back to Ireland” she says. Soon I’m getting links to vacation package deals from her, and one catches my eye as a good deal with travel and accommodations for a week and I really started [...]
Read moreTweetIt was a long way to go to see the Blackhawks lose a hockey game, but the chance to see the city of Vancouver was worth it nonetheless.
Read moreTweetIt’s been well over a month, but pictures from Bike Ireland friends still float by now and then. And with every one, it makes me wish I could go back immediately. This one was sent by Jan in Nebraska. Seeing this, I want to go back, and take my Orrie with me. Something tells me [...]
Read moreTweetSo, a few people questioned if I was actually in Ireland due to the lack of my own face in my pictures–of which there was one that I posted, so they must’ve missed that one. Go back and look if you missed it. Perhaps they don’t know my policy of preferring to be behind the [...]
Read moreTweet These are about a third of the total pictures I took over there… a lot of the other ones were a lot more of the same in most cases, or blurry out-of-focus shots from my cheap Sony Cybershot. Gotta get me one of those badass cameras like Wendell had on the trip. Can’t wait [...]
Read moreTweetBeen asked a lot where my Bike Ireland photos are, and I’m working on getting those together. Until I can get them posted, here’s a story to tide you all over. Here I sit on my last night of vacation, looking through hundreds of photos that I took on my week long bicycle trip through [...]
Read moreTweet Four days, three nights in the city so nice they had to name it twice. It was a spectacle to see that’s for sure, and now I can say I was there, but to be honest not sure if I’ll ever go back (maybe to see the new Yankee Stadium and Letterman since he [...]
Read moreTweet Through my alumni association I hooked up a ticket to see my Sox take on their Sox at Fenway in Boston on Labor Day weekend. Sure, their Sox walloped mine, but it was great to see Fenway and the city of Boston for the first time. Kinda wish I could have spent another day [...]
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