It begins with the wine… Two weeks ago, we purchased the “golden” ticket for a wine weekend in Placerville with the rest of the Weaver/Nesler crew. On the way there, we ran into some bad luck. Bridget and Ron weren’t feeling great to begin with; we hit a snow storm over the pass, and then [...]

UPDATE: Contiki is suspending the voting right now. They are having MAJOR Facebook issues, so they’re going back to the drawing board. We’ll try again later! Bridget and I signed up for a Facebook contest, held through Contiki Tours, to hopefully travel to New Zealand. If our bus gets the most “Likes” on Facebook, we [...]

On St. Patrick’s Day this year Andy and I decided to forgo the usual Guinness and Jameson in the name of childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s is an international event that promotes fund raising for child cancer research. We volunteered at the largest local event, which took place at the Reno Livestock Events Center. About 300 [...]

2004.  A lot of things happened that year:  Bridget, Graduation from UNR, 1880 Simpson, watching a game at Fenway for the first time, and the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. Bill Simmons, a writer at one point for Jimmy Kimmell and now writes for ESPN, compiled his [...]

Bridget We celebrated Bridget’s birthday at the Skyline Café. Nothing wrong with some potato pizza on a Friday night. Plus we were able to get the band to play Bridget a little melody for her birthday. Nice! Andy For my birthday, Bridget gave me a 30 day countdown. For the past 30 days, she would [...]

I actually bought this book for my dad for Christmas. And Bridget had the same idea, but for me.  This was a quick read and had an interesting story. The author described life growing up with a man who couldn’t care less about what people thought of him, and had a colorful way of saying [...]

Cheers to a memorable 2010. Here’s the highlights of the past 365 days. 1. The Middle East and New York Pyramids, religious shrines, roman ruins, Islamic temples, Greek columns, Arabic wonders, the Dead Sea – we saw so much within two weeks. And that doesn’t include New York with the Statue of Liberty, Empire State [...]

2010 Santa Crawl This year’s Santa Crawl had everything you could ask: Chicken Santa, Bars that support charitable giving in exchange for drinking patrons,  and cold, but nice weather. It was also the first appearance of Yukon Cornelius and his elfin wife. (I must have stole her from Santa.) Yukon Cornelius: This fog’s as thick as [...]

I love fall. The changing of the leaves; the cooler, rainy weather; and the coming of the holidays. Even though I’m writing this a few months late, I still can’t wait until next fall. As I finished my last half, I received a flier for this one. I looked at a few pictures and figured [...]

Travel Tips There are some things that I’ve noticed on our trip and learned. Here are some traveling tips that have been useful. Always carry tip money. It will be worth the pictures if they ask. Pack throwaways like shirts, underwear, and socks. Then your bag starts to get lighter throughout your trip as you leave these [...]