Category: Travel
All of our ramblings about travel
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Shipshewana and Goshen Indiana for Memorial Day Weekend
We went to Shipshewana, Indiana for a concert and ended up staying in Goshen for the whole Memorial Day weekend. It turned out to be the perfect blend of entertainment and discovery. Here’s a look at how our four-day adventure unfolded. Friday: A Quick Trip to IndianaWe kicked off the trip on Friday afternoon, May… Read more
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Chasing Warblers: A 5-Day Photography Trek to the Warbler Capital of the World
Every spring, a quiet magic takes over the southern shores of Lake Erie. Millions of migrating songbirds, exhausted from their journey north, drop out of the sky into a narrow strip of forest to rest and refuel before crossing the great lake. This year, we packed up our camera bags and headed to Ohio for… Read more
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Hunting Northern Lights (Without Success)
Friday afternoon I saw that there was a possibility of Northern Lights in Michigan. When Tammy got home from work, we discussed the possibility of heading north to see what we could see. We went to Wayland Hotel for dinner and formulated a plan. By the time we finished dinner Tammy had a room booked… Read more
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Pompano Beach and Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas
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Gloucester and Whale Watching!
We woke up on Saturday excited that we were going to go whale watching. We packed up and made it almost 50 miles to Gloucester before we found a place to stop for breakfast. The restaurants that we found online had large lines waiting to go in. As we drove around exploring, Tammy spotted a… Read more
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Newport, RI and Plymouth, MA
We started our day at the Middletown/Newport Days Inn. After a quick continental breakfast and coffee, we found the Cliff Walk. We parked at the end of Narragansett Ave. Tammy, and I walked down the 40 Steps. Back at the top of the steps, we had to follow the sidewalk around the block, because the… Read more
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Norwalk, CT and Travel to Newport, RI
We headed out from Philadelphia, and aside from stopping at nearly every service plaza along the way, we drove straight to Norwalk, Connecticut. Our first stop was a dinner stop at Harbor Lights. It was a perfect setting on the Norwalk harbor for my first lobster roll of the journey. Our waiter suggested we check… Read more
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Philadelphia
We got to Philadelphia and stayed at Motto by Hilton in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. We booked the hotel because it was inexpensive and it looked like a decent neighborhood in downtown. We drove down 19th street and could not miss the orange building. Figuring out where to park was another thing. We went around… Read more
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On to Philadelphia
We left Ocean City and made it as far as the Fenwick Island Lighthouse. It is the oldest lighthouse in Delaware. We stood on the line between Maryland and Delaware. This was a disputed location that was ratified by King George III in 1769 and created the boundary between the Penns in Delaware and the… Read more
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Ocean City
We stayed at the Plim Plaza Hotel. The hotel has an excellent location, right on the boardwalk. The Plim Plaza was built in 1963 on the location where the Plimhimmon Hotel had burned down the previous year. The Plimhimmon Hotel had been in operation since 1894. The restaurant and bar closed on Labor Day this… Read more