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NYC at Christmastime
When looking up best cities in America to visit at Christmas time, NYC appears near the top of every list. I'd been to New York on two...
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Jaipur
Jaipur is beautiful, known as the Pink City due to the color of all of the buildings in its historic district. Of all the places I...
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Prepping for India + Delhi & Agra
What a strange time to be alive, right? As if the entire world going into shutdown mode over a pandemic wasn't crazy enough already, I...
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico was a spontaneous travel decision and the biggest surprise of my year in how much I absolutely fell in love with it, and I...
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San Francisco, Napa, & Yosemite
I went to California once as a kid. I remember the Hollywood Star Walk, the plethora of animals at the San Diego Zoo, and having my...
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Switzerland
Let me tell you about one of my best friends! Jackie and I met our sophomore year of high school at Walsh Jesuit, and it was a friendship...
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Las Vegas
There is a lot to keep you occupied in Las Vegas. Four days is hardly enough to put together a comprehensive list, yet four days felt...
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Louisville, KY
So, there's this fun thing I like to do where I scroll around the globe on Google Earth while I'm working to look at all of the places I...
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Easy Road Trips from Northeast Ohio
So once upon a time, I promised that I would shortly follow up my entry on Cleveland with one detailing easy weekend road trips from our...
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Colorado Road Trip
It seemed that out of nowhere a few years back, everyone in Ohio all of a sudden decided they wanted to up and move to Colorado (totally...