• Adventures

    Do As the Locals Do

    Back when I was in college my family took a trip to Milwaukee. It was a fun trip. We saw some new things, in a new place. The three main memories I have from this trip without looking at photos are a creamery tour, a brewery tour, and the Harley-Davidson tour/museum. If that doesn’t describe a trip to Wisconsin well I don’t know what does. I also realized as I typed this that we also went on the Pabst Mansion tour, and that was really cool as well. Clearly, this isn’t all of what Wisconsin in about, but it’s still an intrinsically important part of the state from what I…

  • Adventures

    Gladers in Colorado

    My Dad’s side of the family has had two big family reunions in my lifetime, one was back in the nineties – so I barely remember it, but it was in the town I lived in at the time but the other one was when I was about 13. I really enjoyed that one because it was in Colorado, so we made a vacation out of the experience, and got to have it with so many cousins! It was just my immediate family driving to and from Colorado, but we met up with everyone not only at a great resort near Rocky Mountain National Park, but we also saw my…

  • Adventures,  Family

    A Whole New World

    My parents took my sister and me on a trip to Disney world in summer of 2005, here’s why it was great and what a kid (like myself at the time) can learn from this kind of trip. I love Disney, even in college when asked to come up with what my favorite brand was I decided to write down Disney. I know it’s a huge corporation and everything, but I still grew up with this stuff, and love many of the movies to this day. Let me first acknowledge that my parents took me at a nearly perfect age. Just before I turned 10, I was old enough to…