Wendi's Weekend Trips & Whatnot

Travel. Food. Fun.

Owney: A Rose by Any Other Name, Still Smells Sweet (at Secrest Arboretum)

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My mom, Wendi, recently celebrated her birthday week. My dad, Bobby, thought that even though she had gotten to do some really fun things (which you can read about a couple here and here) he really wanted to end the week with just the two of them. Well, you know how cute I can be, especially when I look at them with my "puppy dog" eyes. Add that to the fact that they had spent very little time at home during the week, which meant very little time with me, I convinced Dad that whatever "they" … [Read more...]

Reached Pittsburgh, Relived Reacher

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I am the type of person who can watch a movie over and over and enjoy it as much as I did the first time. Maybe even more. My husband, Bobby, is not like that. He doesn't usually watch a movie a second time, let alone over and over. The one exception is the movie Jack Reacher. We both really like that movie. (Blog continues below photos.) So when we decided to make a trip to Pittsburgh on Saturday, April 23, 2016 we knew we had to visit some of the sites where the movie was filmed. (As an … [Read more...]

Falling for Brandywine Falls

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Since I saw a Facebook post about the best waterfalls in Ohio, I have been looking forward to nice weather so I could start visiting them. Finally, Saturday, April 16, 2016,  I got the opportunity to at least see one.  We visited Brandywine Falls at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Sagamore Hills Township. On our drive there, Bobby read to me the blog Linda Hall wrote of her and her husband's hike to the falls. Her blog talked of taking a lengthy hike in which she eventually made it … [Read more...]

Fall + Family = Fun

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Fall is great!  It is beautiful with the changing of the leaves. It is bearable with its cooler weather. It is football season. (O.K. maybe the last one only works if you're a football fan.) Family is awesome! It is beautiful building memories together.  It is bearable and easier to let your hair down and be yourself with them. It is nice to have connection with people who "knew you when." (O.K. maybe that last one only works if you have achieved greatness--which I'm still working … [Read more...]

Guest to our blog: Linda Hall invites you to ‘walk this way’

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When Linda Hall is not writing about education or social services for The Daily Record, you can find her and her husband walking on some trail in Ohio or blogging about her adventures. Linda's blog, Walking Ohio with Jon and Linda Hall, appears on The Daily Record website. She has also begun collecting all of her blog posts into a single piece on Storify (a storytelling platform that harnesses the power of social media). Below, you can check out her Storify piece about Walking … [Read more...]