Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Places Slept 2025

 The year started a bit slower but certainly picked up pace at the end. Theres also always a few handfuls of Des Moines overnights I don't count here just because there are so many it kind of takes over. 

2/13-2/14- Minneapolis, MN

3/12- Minneapolis, MN (Disney)

3/13-20- Lake Buena Vista, FL (Disney)

6/25- Minneapolis, MN 

6/26-6/28- Las Vegas, NV

8/15- Minneapolis, MN (NFG/JEW/Offspring)

8/19- Minneapolis, MN (ThreeOhThree/Bowling for Soup/Simple Plan)

9/27- Chicago, IL (Rise Against/Papa Roach)

10/13- plane over Atlantic to Doha

10/14- Doha, Qatar

10/15-10/16- Kathmandu, Nepal

10/17- Phakding, Nepal

10/18- Namche Bazar, Nepal

10/19- Hotel Everest View, Nepal

10/20- Tengbuche, Nepal

10/21-10/22- Dingboche, Nepal

10/23- Lobuche, Nepal

10/24- Gorakshep, Nepal

10/25-10/26- Kathmandu, Nepal

10/27- Doha, Qatar


Friday, January 24, 2025

Places Slept 2024

2/9-2/10- St Louis Park, MN 

3/6- Bloomington, MN

3/7-3/14- Lake Buena Vista, FL

5/18-5/20- New York City, NY

6/29-6/30- Chicago, IL

8/13- Miami, FL 

8/14-18- Havana, Cuba

9/24- Minneapolis, MN 

10/18- Chicago, IL 

11/14- Grand Island, NE

11/15- Denver, CO 

12/11- Minneapolis, MN 

12/12-12/15- Boston, MA

Friday, January 19, 2024

Places Slept 2023

3/8- Bloomington, MN (Disney)

3/9-16- Lake Buena Vista, FL (Disney)

4/28-4/29- Minneapolis, MN (birthday)

6/22-6/23- St Louis Park, MN (birthday)

7/7- McHenry, IL (Savage)

8/16- Denver, CO

8/17-19- Copper Mountain, CO

8/27- Minneapolis, MN (NFG/AllAmerican)

10/19- Minneapolis, MN (Brett Goldstein)

11/9- Minneapolis, MN (Trevor Noah)

11/10- flying from NYC to Buenos Aires

11/11- Ushuaia, Argentina

11/12-20- boat in Antarctica

11/21- Foz do IguaƧu, Brazil

11/22- flying to Miami from Buenos Aires

12/10- St Louis Park (Pete Davidson)

Monday, January 2, 2023

Places Slept 2022

2/15- West Des Moines, IA 

3/2- West Des Moines, IA 

3/3-11- Lake Buena Vista, FL (Disney)

4/29-4/30- St Louis Park, MN (Tim bday)

6/8- Des Moines, IA

6/9- Denver, CO (Wild Animal 5k)

6/1- Hudson, CO (Wild Animal 5k)

7/22- McHenry, IL (Savage)

7/28- West Des Moines, IA (Segura)

8/9- West Des Moines, IA (MGK)

8/20- Des Plaines, IL (McHale)

10/14- flying overnight to Peru

10/15- Lima, Peru

10/16-17 Tambopata, outside Port Minaldo in Amazon

10/18-10/19 Cusco, Peru

10/20- Ollantaytambo, Peru

10/21- Aguas Calientes, Peru (Machu Picchu)

10/22- Cusco, Peru

10/23- Lima, Peru

12/1- West Des Moines, IA

12/8-9- Chicago, IL 

Friday, December 31, 2021

Places Slept 2021

Places Slept 2021. Not counting the happy nights at home with the kitties and somewhat frequent visits to the Des Moines kitties.


3/26- St Louis Park, MN 

6/19- Geneva, IL 

7/23- McHenry, IL 

10/26- plane

10/27-28- Selfoss, Iceland

10/29-30- Myvatn, Iceland

10/31- Siglufjordur, Iceland

11/1-2- Husafell, Iceland

11/3-4- Reykjavik, Iceland

12/16- Lake Buena Vista, FL 

12/17-18- Sebring, FL 

12/19- Lake Buena Vista, FL

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Places Slept 2020 (Where nearly all the travel happened before March ended...)

1/24- Cedar Rapids, IA

1/25- Fort Lauderdale, FL

1/26- Outside Fort Lauderdale

1/27- Outside Nassau, Bahamas

1/28- At sea

1/29- Outside Cozumel, Mexico

1/30- Outside Costa Maya, Mexico

1/31- At sea

2/1- Outside Fort Lauderdale, FL

2/14-2/15- St Louis Park, MN

3/11- Bloomington, MN

3/12-19 -  Lake Buena Vista, FL

8/7- North Platte, NE 

8/8-12- Copper Mountain, CO

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

2019 Places Slept.

2019 and the Adventurous (or not so much) Places I Slept.
      -Discounting Cedar Falls home, and the 19 evenings in Des Moines.

2/5-2/6- New York City, NY
3/13- Bloomington, MN
3/14-21-Lake Buena Vista, FL
5/24-5/25- St Louis Park, MN
7/11- Fort Morgan, CO
7/12- Colorado Springs, CO
7/13- North Platte, NE
7/26- Antioch, IL
10/5- Peoria, IL
10/19-10/22 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
10/23-10/24 Pemuteran, Bali, Indonesia
10/25- Sinur, Bali, Indonesia
11/1- St Louis, MO
11/15-11/16- Chicago, IL

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Places Slept 2018

It's been a year. Not too much travel this year. Here's hoping 2019 brings a longer list.

2/17- Denver, CO
2/18- Edwards, CO
2/19- Kearney, NE
3/7- Bloomington, MN
3/8-3/14- Lake Buena Vista, FL
3/19-3/20- Lone Tree, CO
5/12-Leawood, KS
5/18- Rockford, IL
7/6-7/7- Kansas City, KS
7/28- McHenry, MN
8/8-8/10- New York City, NY
8/11- South Londonderry, VT
8/12-8/15- Boston, MA
8/16- Avon, OH
12/6-8- Chicago, IL

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Places Slept 2017.

Live: Cedar Falls, IA
Might as well live in, with 32 overnights: West Des Moines, IA

2/10-2/11- Chicago, IL
3/9- Bloomington, MN
3/10-3/17- Lake Buena Vista, FL
5/6- St Louis Park, MN
5/26-28- Denver, CO
6/16-6/17 Chicago, IL
7/13-7/14- St Louis Park, MN
7/28-McHenry, IL
7/29-Alsip, IL
9/29-9/30- St Louis Park, MN
10/27-10/30-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
10/31-11/1-Phnom Penh, Cambodia
11/2-11/4-Siem Reap, Cambodia
11/5-11/6-Bangkok, Thailand
11/7-Rafthouse Kanchanaburi, Thailand
11/8-Kanchanaburi, Thailand
11/9-Ayutthaya, Thailand
11/10-Overnight train to Chiang Mai
11/11-Chiang Mai, Thailand
11/12-11/14-Phuket, Thailand
12/15-16-Chicago, IL

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Places Slept 2016

Not counting the random countless nights in West Des Moines.

Living in: Cedar Falls, IA
3/10: Bloomington, MN (spring break)
3/11-3/18: Lake Buena Vista, FL (spring break)
4/14-4/17: New York City, NY (spartan)
4/29: Topeka, KS (battlefrog/warrior dash)
5/20: Hudson, WI (battlefrog)
6/24: Red Wing, MN (spartan)
7/15: West Des Moines, IA (CTG)
7/21: West Des Moines, IA (Andrew McMahon)
7/29: Spring Grove, IL (Savage)
8/6: Denver, CO
8/7-10: Copper Mountain, CO
8/20: Edina, MN (Ninjas United)
8/31: Joliet, IL (Rugged Maniac)
9/3: Chicago, IL (concert)
9/16: Oregonia, OH (MGG)
10/13-10/15: Blue Mountains, ON, CA (OCRWC)
10/16-10/17: Toronto, ON, CA (OCRWC)
11/10-11/13: NYC, New York

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Places Slept 2015

It's been a long time since I posted here. Not once in the year 2015. Not even the Places Slept in 2014. I feel like it's just past its prime. Sorry blogger. But yet some part of me is nostalgic. So I'll at least post my Places Slept in 2015.

Cedar Falls, IA
12/30-1/2: West Des Moines, IA
1/14: West Des Moines, IA
1/31: New Brighton, MN
2/13- West Des Moines, IA
2/14- Minneapolis, MN
3/12- Bloomington, MN
3/13-3/20- Lake Buena Vista
4/25-4/26- Creve Coeur, MO
5/7- West Des Moines, IA
5/8- Burnett, TX 
5/9- Austin, TX 
5/10- West Des Moines, IA
5/24- Minneapolis, MN 
5/28- Champaigne, IL 
5/29- Zanesville, OH 
5/30- Hammond, IN 
6/11- Kearney, NE 
6/12- Breckinridge, CO 
6/13- Oogalala, NE 
6/26- Red Wing, MN 
7/7- West Des Moines, IA
7/8-7/11- New York City, NY
7/12- West Des Moines, IA
8/14- Peru, IL 
8/15- Chicago, IL
8/23-24- West Des Moines, IA 
8/28-29- West Des Moines, IA 
9/26- West Des Moines, IA
9/29-30- West Des Moines, IA 
10/2-West Des Moines, IA
10/10- Minneapolis, MN 
10/26- West Des Moines, IA
10/30-10/31-  West Des Moines, IA
11/5- West Des Moines, IA
11/6-11/8- Boston, MA 
11/9-11/12- Las Vegas, NV
11/13-  West Des Moines, IA
11/27-  West Des Moines, IA
12/23-  West Des Moines, IA

12/31-  West Des Moines, IA

Friday, January 3, 2014

Places Slept 2013

Kind of a slow year. Not that that's a bad thing. Just different than normal.

Cedar Falls, IA
2/8-2/9-West Des Moines, IA
3/14-Bedford Park, IL
3/15-3/22- Buena Vista, FL
5/18-Chesterfield, MO
5/24-5/25-Edina, MN
6/15-West Des Moines, IA
7/2-Ogallala, NE
7/3- 7/6 Copper Mountain, CO
7/7- North Platte, NE
8/2-8/16- West Des Moines, IA
9/13- St. Louis, MO
10/5-10/6- Bloomington, MN
10/25-West Des Moines, IA
10/26-Mount Washington, MA
10/27-10/28 Montreal, Canada
10/29- NYC, NY
11/15-West Des Moines, IA
12/20-West Des Moines, IA

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Getting To & Wanderlust Colorado Day One!

Driving to Wanderlust Colorado! We will skip the first ten hours. Because Nebraska SUCKS. 



Copper Mountain!!!My Colorado home.


Shopped inside the d'Om. Thank God there wasn't too much unique stuff, I'd have been so screwed. But we came out with a single piece for me and a single piece for Tim. I consider this success!

Vendors with free food will always be the favorite.

Budokon Yoga: Floating and Inversions- Cameron Shayne was late, so Matt Giordano subbed.

Sweet class, learned some new techniques for poses like high lunge, chair, pigeon, side crow (although that one got about 10x harder) and how to drag toes for floating. 

And there will for sure be introduction of the real cobra into my classes. Inchworm butt! So will "heart up to thumbs" instead of twisting.

"Lift your pinky toes if you want to experience God" -Matt Giordono

In my 15 minute break, Tim brought me my sandwich before I ate a skinny yogi chick.

AcroYoga is always fun, but how much fun relies completely on your partner(s).

Cole from Lulu was fabulous and energetic, but Nicole from Jersey was tiny tiny tiny. Sunburnt Jen was an amazon and rather pushy.

Charlotte was my second amazon, but the first to fly me in the class and holy cow that lady had LEGS, it's just too bad this ADD kid was our spotter and he acted like a coke head. 

But I learned some new group work and a bunch of new partner poses: double plank child's pose, knees on back lifts, and throne.



Plus at the end they led us through some short Thai massage and there's an outter shin technique to die for....

After quite the time outside, and nowhere near enough water intake and the sun and yoga had put my head in quite the vice. And since I've done Thai massage before and I feel like I myself would have been the sucky partner, I opted to skip out.

So Tim and I walked around the Village getting all the cool stuff at vendors. Toyota had a cool tent to get screen printed bags, engraved key tags, make your own mat cleaner, make your own granola, and get pictures taken. It was a fun walk around the village collecting goodies.



Mini retreat to the room before we found this sweet seemingly secluded path along the stream towards the back of Copper. 


 Opening ceremonies at the lake, the Quixotic Fusion fire dancers, were fine, but I was far more enthralled with the violinist and drummer. Soothing and engaging and they just sucked you in COMPLETELY. 




The Wanderlust Spectacular was the night cap of the evening, if only we weren't so exhausted. Cameron Shayne is an animal. A pure muscular intense animal. Its inhuman. His eyes and his structure. Indescribable. But we also got to see Matt and Chelsey do acro and all the other instructors do their thing with MC Yogi as the MC (shocking). 

Sadly, we lasted only about 40 of the 90 minutes. Yoga in the mountains is exhausting!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Day Trip to San Antonio

We decided to make a quick jaunt on down to San Antonio! Got my NPS stamp at the Missions, right next to the one I got when I was little. Went to the Alamo, sorely disappointed, but the Buckhorn Texas Ranger Museum wasn't too shabby! Although slightly creepy with the animal heads and chairs....With a final stop of the San Antonio Riverwalk before lunch at La Gloria on the outskirts of town!








Some More Austin....


But to counteract all the food, or at least a few bites of it, we ran the Trail of Lights 5k! It was pretty sweet, I gotta say.






Everything IS bigger in TX, including my appetite! (Pt 1)

Tim and I went on a mini vacation to Austin, Texas in mid December! We saw the State Capital, ate Gourdough's AMAZING drop dead awesome donuts, did some Corepower Yoga, did some shopping, visited the very first Whole Foods (not just visited, but probably went literally 9 times in the few days we were there), wanted to buy this super awesome cowboy boots, ate Torchy's Tacos, went and checked out University of Texas' campus,  AND we took a Food Tour. In case you didn't notice, it was quite food themed.....








We did the Austin Eats Food Tour and it was fabulous. So much deliciousness!

Sausage gravy biscuit - Farmers Market
Chocolate Cocoa beans - Farmers Market
Breakfast taco - Taco Deli
Kitchen sink burger - Huts Hamburgers
Chicken eggs hollandaise / Moscow mule- Haddingtons
Golden Egg Cinnamon scone- Fancy & Staple
Chocolate covered bacon / strawberry infused gin / coffee / chicago dog / chili dog- Frank
Mini cupcakes / cookie - Delish




Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Places Slept 2012.

Continuing tradition since 2008 (2009, 2010, 2011). Travel is such a huge part of our life, that this post is one of my favorite's all year. And this year is definitely not slacking.


Cedar Falls, IA
3/8-Chicago, IL
3/9-3/16-Buena Vista, FL
4/13-Bloomington, MN
5/10-over the Atlantic
5/11-13- Cairo, Egypt
5/14-15-onboard Nile Cruise @Luxor, Egypt
5/16-onboard Nile Cruise @ Kom Obo, Egypt
5/17-onboard Nile Cruise @ Aswan, Egypt
5/18-5/19- Cairo, Egypt
5/20- Amman, Jordan
5/21-5/22- Wadi Musa, Jordan
5/23- Flying from the Middle East to Europe
6/13- Lincoln, NE
6/14-5/16- Snowmass Village, CO
6/17- Denver, CO
7/6-7/20 -West Des Moines, IA
8/1-West Des Moines
8/2-8/4- Somerville, MA
8/5- Brookline, MA
8/6- Cambridge, MA
8/24- Chicago, IL
10/12-10/13- Coralville, IA
10/31 -West Des Moines, IA
12/12-West Des Moines, IA
12/13-16-Austin, TX
12/17-West Des Moines, IA

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

DPP 18: Post Vacation Chaos.


Haven't been home in a week. And within an hour, the house explodes!


December Photo Project 17

Last one from Texas!!! DPP 17: It's not a hot dog joint until there's a weiner dog on the wall....


Monday, December 3, 2012

DPP 3: Fly Away!

My parents left on their annual birthday trip. Peru's Machu Picchu. I'm hoping for a Llama souvenir! Not a stuffed one. Full sized. For Nessa to ride around on.