West Virginia Weekend

As I was saying with my Pittsburgh post, a fun thing about the Columbus life is there’s all sorts of places that aren’t all that far away. For example, October 17 & 18 we zipped down and over to West Virginia to visit the new New River Gorge National Park. We began the trip with a night in Charleston, West Virginia. Took portraits of each other while waiting on our Indian food, had a little walk around, called it a night.

And the next morning we were up and adventuring! It turns out it was “Bridge Day”, an annual event where the bridge that spans the New River Gorge is closed to traffic and open to pedestrians (and base jumpers!) so navigating the park was a little difficult without the use of this major thoroughfare. But we had nice visits and walks rounds in a couple areas and the detour incurred by their not being bridge access lead us to spending time at an apostolic church yard sale (parking lot sale?) where we loaded up on baked goods and vintage dining room items for a song. And I had a West Virginia hot dog!

And on the way home we had milkshakes at a fine place called Nancy’s.

Pittsburgh Weekend

September 19 & 20: Liz and I took advantage of living not so far away and drove over to Pittsburgh for half a weekend, arriving at our Hampton Inn late one Friday night. The next morning we woke up, hit the complimentary breakfast, and went over and tried out the Incline.

Then we bounced back to the hotel, got ourselves ready for the day, and headed into the city. First we did a little walk around, just a little one, then ate at Gaucho’s before walking across the river and winding up at the National Bird Museum (that’s probably not the name) before heading back to our car and heading back to Columbus. Just like that! Going to Pittsburgh, having a fun time, and coming back home is easy to do!

Columbus Catch Up, Mid August through September

Here’s an experiment … just a photo dump of things happening in and around Columbus from the middle of August to the end of September. We’ve got walks around the neighborhood, visits to the Gardners, a visit to a vintage store, a trip to Chilis after seeing Hamilton (in the movie theater), climbing the stairs at Ohio Stadium at 6 in the morning, a Musicologie concert, a trip to Circleville with Carolyn and Stephanie, the author of the Princess Diaries, and Destiny Bond/JiveBomb/Cloakroom/Glare at Ace of Cups. What a catch up!