Turning 30 Bridget and I both celebrated our second annual 29th birthday, which included a countdown, a scavenger hunt of our life, and a surprise party   Exploring Nevada’s Outback With Lisa, we decided to venture east on Highway 50 through Fernley, Fallon, Austin, Eureka, and Ely  to become a survivor of the Loneliest Highway.   [...]

2011 marked the year that TJ moved into our neighborhood, a few houses down from Rob and me. Well, we knew we had to act quickly for our Northwest house crawl.   This year was going to be a bit more intimate, and we decided to run a theme. So, we crawled just like Mad [...]

For Thanksgiving we ventured down to Arizona to enjoy the 75 degree weather in Scottsdale. Oh yeah. Ron was also going to run an iron man.  Nagisa joined us, and we explored the surrounding area. Man, it was nice. Well, we might as well give a first-hand experience of Ron’s iron man experience. Take it [...]

I have no idea how this book found it’s way into our library. I may have picked it up for free at some point. But it stared at me in our closet, asking me if today it was to fulfill it’s purpose. So, I grabbed it. The majority of this book is centered around the [...]

This book  was staring at me in my bookcase. I had read this for a class in college, and at the time, I felt that it was a good read. So, I decided to run through it once again: – 1+1 = 3 Consuming insight + Brand Insight = Sweet spot – 5th P of Marketing [...]

This post is more of a historic side of my family. Before I forget everything, I wanted to write it down. Grammy – The English/Irish/Scotch side Grammy was raised in Point of Pines, MA, near a gorgeous Beach Her mother passed away at an early age. Father eventually remarried to a witch of a woman [...]

An early rainy morning, we headed to the airport to fly into Green Bay. When we arrived, I was suprised to find that the Green Bay airport was smaller than the Reno-Tahoe one. We drove by Lambeau Field, and then headed 90 minutes to get to Iron Mountain.  Green Bay is just that, green farmland [...]

Cape Cod The next day was our longest drive, as we headed three hours south to Cape Cod. I had wanted to at least stay one night in Cape Cod to see what the hype was all about, and I’m really glad I did. We stayed in Chatham (Chad-am), which was a good recommendation.  It felt [...]

North of Boston The next morning we needed to drive up to New Hampshire with a few stops along the way. We first started with a drive through Cambridge, checking out the prestigious universities of MIT and Harvard. It would have been cool to spend some additional time there. We then headed over to Tufts University to [...]

Freedom Trail Ah yes, the red line. Or maybe better known as the Freedom Trail. It meanders through the landmark sites of the city of Boston, guiding tourists on their path through history. We started at Boston Common which seemed to be entirely under construction. Despite trying to find the beginning of the red line, we decided [...]