I awoke Friday morning in what is becoming a familiar location, near Lake Las Vegas. We’re out here for a long weekend to visit family, and run a desert trail race on Saturday. Friday, however, was just for hanging out and exploring. We started the day looking for some breakfast, and because everything around where […]
Read moreOne aspect of adult life that I really enjoy is vacation planning. I know a lot of people don’t find it their cup of tea, but I enjoy the process of selecting a destination and then discovering what can be done there. This past week we started putting together some of our plans for 2016, […]
Read moreThis weekend is another road trip, this time to support a friend of my wife’s as she does a 50K in Wisconsin. We left right after work and because of the season it gets dark pretty early. I’ve spent the last 4 and a half hours driving in the dark and have come to really […]
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Traveling home after trips is always a mix of sadness, relief and downright exhaustion. This trip has been no exception. When you need to drive 6 hours each way to spend two nights in a place, you almost always end up feeling un-rested when you arrive home. Yesterday, after our run, we got a bit […]
Read moreWe returned very late last night, so late that it was actually today. Our plane landed around 12:15am and we began the process of getting our luggage and starting our drive home. Needless to say we found ourselves sleeping in quite a bit this morning before finishing the unpacking and starting laundry. This is the […]
Read moreNo trip to Vegas ever seems complete without at least one visit to The Strip. For those unfamiliar with Vegas, The Strip is a couple mile long stretch of Las Vegas Blvd. where all the casino’s that you hear about are. The Luxor, Belagio, Ceaser’s Palace, etc. are all on The Strip. Unlike Freemont Street, […]
Read moreOne of the things I like to do when visiting other cities is to sample their local brewery culture. I love to try new beers and love talking with local breweries about the beer culture in their cities. This trip has afforded me a chance to try beer from four different places so far, so […]
Read moreOne of the things I like to do when traveling is run in different climates and biomes than I can experience back home. Since we’re in the desert I wanted to spend some time running in the desert, and we selected Red Rocks Canyon on the west edge of Vegas. My wife planned a smaller […]
Read moreToday started bright and early with arriving at the airport by 7am to catch our flight to Vegas to visit my wife’s family. Although I had been nervous for a while about flying I managed to feel pretty good this morning. I also took a little white pill to help calm me down during the […]
Read moreThis past weekend my wife and I took a quick overnight trip to Rochester, MN, a town of about 100,000 people just over an hour south of the Twin Cities. I’ve posted the past couple days about the reviews of the breweries and brewpubs that we visited, but I wanted to spend today’s entry sharing […]
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Second Runnings 