For our anniversary this weekend, Funnel and I headed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!   I thought I’d post a little re-cap of our weekend; hopefully it will be helpful if you ever take a trip to “The City of Bridges!”
Pittsburgh is about 3 hours from Columbus and we arrived late Friday evening and checked into our Bed [...]

Earlier in the summer, Funnel and I made a summer to-do list.  Here is where it stands:
Completed:
Columbus Arts Festival
Zoombezi Bay
Kings Island
Clippers Game
Indians Game
Yellow Springs Street Fair
Rising Park
Taco Truck
Need to Do:
Camping
“Beers, High Street, Friday Night”
Drive-in-movie
Crew Game
Hartford Fair
Mammoth Cave
Pataskala Street Fair
“The Trifecta”
Canoing
Hocking Hills
Renaissance Fair
Fail:
Comfest (Funnel had to work)
Jazz & Ribs Fest (too hot)
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Here are some [...]

So, my sweet husband whisked me away on a top-secret anniversary getaway last weekend.  I knew for awhile he was planning something, I just wasn’t sure what.  But after we started driving on 70 west, I knew.  We were going to my very most favorite place in all of Ohio: Yellow Springs!
We stayed two nights [...]

Wanderlust (noun) a strong desire for or impulse to wander, or, in modern usage, to travel and to explore the world.

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I really thought that our trip to Europe in May would cure me of my wanderlust for awhile. 
It didn’t. 
I think it made it worse. 
And I wanted to ask all of you, if money [...]

Put-in-Bay ::: South Bass Island ::: Lake Erie.

After spending the morning exploring Cortona, Funnel headed back to the hotel for a nap, and I decided to do some shopping in the town square.  I browsed several pottery shops, a textile shop, a couple of art galleries, and some general souvenier shops. 
After a bit, I went back to the hotel to get Funnel, [...]

Our second day in Cortona started out with a buffet breakfast in our hotel -quite an impressive spread.  Croissants, Crostata (a baked italian jam tart), fruit, yogurt, cereal, eggs, proscuitto and some other meats.  A sweet Italian lady was making drinks for everyone and we both had a cappucino.
It was a beautiful day, the nicest our [...]

Funnel and I continued ascending the hill above the town of Cortona. 

At one point, we ran into an American and talked with him for a bit.  He’s a professor with the University of Georgia, which has a study-abroad program in Cortona.  He was currently there with a group of students, teaching a course on wine [...]

Our train from Venice left late in the morning.  It took us three trains to get to the tiny Tuscan hilltown of Cortona, and it was absolutely gorgeous riding through the Italian countryside.  The red poppies were starting to dot the landscape and I saw so many little villages that I wish we had time [...]

For our last night in Venice, Funnel and I wanted to have  a special evening: a nice dinner and a romantic gondola ride.  I was especially excited for dinner because I had been sick for several days, and this would be my first meal in awhile that wasn’t plain pasta or white rice.  We headed [...]