Every year for the past several years, the BFF and I have a “Thank goodness cookie season is over” trip. We normally do something within a few hours, so it’s been all Ohio so far. We’ve done areas like Marietta, Columbus, Youngstown, and Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This year we decided to do the Ashtabula/Geneva/Madison…
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A Hot Day at the Columbus Zoo
Our Girl Scout Troop sold enough cookies this season to earn free tickets to the Columbus Zoo. We’ve had this trip for a few years now, and it never fails that it is always bright, sunny, hot, and full of allergy floaters in the air. There was an air quality alert in effect, it was…
A Quick Drive Through Gettysburg
After our Appalachian Trail stop, we continued our adventure to Gettysburg. It was later in the day, so we did a super quick stop at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. We have been through the museum before, so we only looked at the free displays and did a quick stop in…
Stepping Foot On The Appalachian Trail
Two of my nieces (trail names Sparks and Church Mouse) have been hiking The Appalachian Trail since the end of February. They are now officially over the halfway mark and in Pennsylvania. (Keep up with their adventures here.) We drove out to Pennsylvania to bring them the family staple… Hot Dog Shoppe! We got a…
Birthday Weekend Getaway
Our oldest kiddo turned 17 yesterday! She’s had a job for 6 months, puts money into savings and retirement every paycheck, and is just an all around responsible awesome person. We’ve been burned out with cookies, so we decided to visit my grandparents in the hills of West Virginia over the weekend. Grandma went all…