Travel Tips: Travel Companions

Yesterday I read an article on CNN's travel section called "Make or Break? Travel tests your love life" about traveling with your significant other to find out the reality of your relationship. The article had several vignettes from couples who: traveled early on in their relationship and knew they would work well together as a …

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Wedding Planning: Choosing a Destination/Venue

The wedding planning is officially underway! A couple months following our engagement and we have a date (September 2013), a photographer (Linczak Photography) and now a venue! The date and photographer were fairly easy-- the date was basically determined by the availability of the top three items of importance to us-- venue, photographer and band. We …

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Cleveland International Film Festival

My friend got me to attend the Cleveland International Film Festival a couple years ago, and I've been hooked ever since! The first year we went, it took a little getting used to. We didn't know where to go, we didn't understand how the vouchers/passes/tickets worked, we didn't figure out how to line up for …

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St. Patty’s Day in Northeast Ohio

We had the most outrageously beautiful weather in Northeast Ohio this weekend, which was perfect for our St. Patty's Day/weekend events! The fiance was in Delaware all week for work, so I was non-stop running errands, prepping the house, outlining food plans and cleaning. I was exhausted driving home from work Friday afternoon, but it …

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Taking Risks, Having Adventures and Making Memories

We don't have t.v. so I have to keep up with the few programs I enjoy on hulu.com. This means I also get the brief commercials throughout the programs. I do like that I have the opportunity to choose which commercials are of interest to me so it can reorganize and play commercials of relevance-- …

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2011 Travel Recap

It seems like the years go faster and faster. Despite my journals, blogs, friends, pictures, scrapbooks and Facebook, I still forget past experiences as new ones constantly seem to take their place. I started going through a few of the above mentioned items and couldn't believe the weekend and weeklong trips we were able to squeeze into …

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Favorite Travel Quotes: Part III

I sometimes wonder what I would do if I couldn't travel. If I couldn't look forward to the next journey. If I couldn't get excited about experiencing some new, fantastic place somewhere in the near future. Right now all travel plans are on hold until other life affairs work themselves out. In the meantime I'm …

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