Our first stop in Lexington after some advice at the visitors center was the Mary Todd Lincoln House. The Mary Todd Lincoln House is open from Monday-Saturday from 10am until 3pm and closed on Sundays. There are tours every hour with the last one being at 3pm for $12 per adult. It is the first [...]
We stayed in Lexington Kentucky at the Hyatt Place and surrounded by little restaurants, including one that had caught my eye early on called Shakespeare and Company. This was only added to after talking with the hotel staff and being shown their menu. Which is absolutely beautiful. We went for lunch and I ended up [...]
At the beginning of February Chicago got about 16 inches of snow, but instead of climbing over mounds of snow I was in Florida visiting friends. All the way up to when I landed in Florida I was wondering whether I had made the right choice or not. I managed to find a super cheap [...]
Redcliffe Plantation was completed in 1859 by James Henry Hammond and is the smallest of his many plantations. He named it Redcliffe because the dirt is red around the house and it sits up high. It was his show plantation, the party house, or the place to show off just how well he and his [...]
While visiting family in Georgia we spent some time in South Carolina and one of the first places we visited was the Hopelands Gardens. The Hopelands Gardens were given to the city of Aiken and opened in 1969 as a public garden, however there are still private residences on the 14 acres. While we were [...]
For the holidays I've been/will be doing a bit of traveling in the US outside of Chicago. For Thanksgiving I went to visit some family in Georgia and we went to check out the Savannah Rapids Park. The Augusta Canal is on the Savannah river and it runs along the border of Georgia and South [...]
For my last road trip I went to the Bristol Renaissance Faire on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. We actually passed Six Flags Great America on our way. The Faire is open from 10am until 7pm on the weekends from July through September 1st (Labor Day, the only Monday they're open). My aunt and I left [...]
I spent a day downtown Indianapolis to meet up with some friends. It started off with getting up before the sun rose to ride with my cousin on his way to work and to be dropped of in the circle(Monument Circle which is a circle road that goes around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument downtown Indianapolis). I [...]
When I visit my sisters one of the places we tend to go is Blondie's, usually for brunch. They have a nice atmosphere and plenty of outdoor seating, though it's usually too hot when were there to want to sit outside. When I was there last I ordered their Banana French Toast. It's sourdough [...]
The building the Fountain On Locust is in was built in 1916 as a showroom for sport sedans, specifically the Stutz Blackhawk and Stutz Bearcat. There is a plaque outside explaining the buildings history with cars. Now the building houses the Fountain On Locust, a restaurant and (voted) best ice cream parlor in St. Louis. My [...]
