Weekly Round Up: A Millionaire Mishap

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I made millionaire bars and Doggo upped her counter surfing game.

Let's Go Places: The Ohio Lighthouses of Lake Erie

Friends, today we are going back to the beginning of my solo travels.  How did I go from being someone who wasn't really into travel to someone who now drops everything to build a long weekend trip at the drop of a hat?

It started with lighthouses.  Let's go back to the summer of 2022 and I'll take you with me on my first tentative steps outside the house.

Weekly Round Up: Back at Home

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I have a killer good taco recipe to share, the Hubs and I hit a new biking milestone, we saw a funny movie, and I might have read a few books since we last talked.

Let's Go Places: Rochester, New York

 

Oh man oh man have I got a travel story for you.  It's about winning the lottery, FLW, and lighthouses.

Don't get too excited about the lottery thing.  It was for a slot on the 2024 tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Boynton House in Rochester, New York.  This is a privately owned home that does tours once a year to benefit the Landmark Society.  Due to popular demand, you can only buy a ticket if you win their lottery.

Rochester is four hours away, and I figured that I'd cut out of work a little early and get there on Friday night, tour the house and whatever else I could find on Saturday, and come home on Sunday.  As soon as I saw what the offerings were in Rochester I adjusted my schedule to take a full day off on Friday.

Weekly Roundup: Another Pumpkin Report

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I've got the pumpkin cookie or all pumpkin cookies, the Hubs and I got up to hijinxs on our bikes and in our movie watching, and I've got a few books to chat about.

Weekly Round Up: Pumpkin Eater

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I have an incredible pumpkin pasta recipe to share, I've been hitting the books, and I'm sure there will be a few dog stories as well.

Let's Go (Back to) Places (and Meet People!): Buffalo, New York

 

I had a good time last weekend.

In March of 2023 I had the pleasure of spending a weekend in Buffalo, NY, and it was on my list of places that I wouldn't mind going back to.  My interest was renewed last month when Wayward went there.

In the meantime, I've been chatting with Kyria, who is currently biking her little heart out all around the US and Canada.  She was in Ontario, and suggested a meetup somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa, Toronto, or Buffalo.  Getting to Ottawa or Toronto would have been tough with my work schedule, but Buffalo is just three hours away.  However, I didn't want to drive three hours to say hi and drive back...I wanted to stay a few days to make the drive worth while and see more of Buffalo.  That's how the blogger meetup went from being a few hours to a mini vacation for both of us.  Good times were had, incredible food was eaten, and postcards were sent.