Living in a tent for a week next to hundreds of thousands of our closest friends is a challenging feat. Hence the reason I call this more of an experience rather than a vacation. The campground has a lot of Red One Markets with very overpriced basics. They have lots of port-o-potties stationed everywhere, so…
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Surviving AirVenture 2023 – Part 2 – Super Guppy
So, back in 2019, NASA’s Super Guppy flew into Mansfield, Ohio with part of Orion so NASA could do testing at Plum Brook Station (now the Neil Armstrong Test Facility) in Sandusky. It was a wild day for us, because we had spent the day in Marietta, Ohio having lunch with my parents and grandparents,…
Surviving AirVenture 2023 – Part 1 – The Roadtrip
Our first time to Oshkosh was a very memorable “vacation”. Everyone asks how our vacation went, and I tell them, it wasn’t a vacation, it was an experience! We had rain, wind, tornado warnings, sun poisoning. It was quite an adventure. We stayed 8 nights in 2 tents in Camp Scholler. We left our home…
Food, Ghosts, Lake Erie, Cemeteries, Putt-Putt – Girls Trip 2023!
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…
Fly Away… to the Piper Aviation Museum
We didn’t have many days in Pennsylvania, but we wanted to do some things we hadn’t done out there before. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania is full of mountains, which means it seems to be a drive to get anywhere. 2.5 hours North of where we were staying, is a little town called Lock Haven. They have a…