There is a certain comfort to coming home after a trip. Traveling away is part of the adventure but the traveling home is often just necessary, boring, and filled with longing. You trudge up the drive with your arms heavy with bags, fumble with keys, and opening the door drop the bags with a sigh that the house hears. Ahhhhhhh.... home.
I have a certain fondness for Bilbo Baggins and relating my returns to his. Part of that is due to my first exposure to the book which was when I was very young and my dad read it out-loud to my sister and I. It fills me with a comfort of home as a place, home [.....]
Whew! It's been a long day, TGIT, Thank Goodness it's Thursday and I get to travel home tomorrow! Being onsite with clients is exhausting in many ways, even when it is going as well as this trip is. At the end of a long day, I'm ready for anything that isn't more work. I'm also ready for some food to feed my tired brain cells!
Equally however, I do not (and I mean do NOT) want to hang out with more people. I need some alone introvert [.....]
I love house hunting. When I travel I watch a lot more TV than usual because I have access to cable channels and the HGTV network is just filled with interior decorating ideas, dreamy vacation spots, and buildings full of character that I could imagine myself living in. But taking it one step further and seeking out real listings is just as fun. Zillow.com is public searching of MLS listings and you can totally scout out what is currently available where you are staying. It gives you a really [.....]
EEP! Look at all that snow!!! Okay, so this picture doesn't make it look that bad, but what you don't see is that Winter Storm Linus was bad enough to cancel all flights into Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the day. So when I did finally get there a day late the worst had passed. I did see a lot of the aftermath though which always makes me nervous. You count the cars in the ditches lining the highways... 13 I think. There wasn't any one on the roads [.....]
I always drink coffee in the morning when I travel. I don't always need the caffeine but it becomes a routine that helps being in a new place a little easier. Sure, you can do Starbucks but it is way more fun to check out the local spots.
I found this place outside of Cedar Falls, Iowa called Cup of Joe. A little piece of downtown Without a doubt I would take others back here. The coffee shop is at the end of this street on the [.....]
There are some neat places here outside of Sandusky, Ohio!
About a half hour south (where I stayed) is the town of Milan, Ohio. Small town but with tons of history! There is a collection of buildings that make up the Thomas Edison museum.
Edison museum entrance In Sandusky itself, there is so much more than roller coasters and indoor water parks. For starters, downtown in the park across from the county building is a merry-go-round museum located in an old post office. How cool is that??
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