Sometime this spring, I decided I would leave State College during the Arts Festival. I thought the new team would do better by not having me metaphorically looking over their shoulders. Plus, it...
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I’m just back from Canada. If you don’t count walking across the bridge to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in 2018, the last time I went to Canada was a brief trip to New Brunswick an...
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Hey it’s me. Back after a long hiatus of doing I don’t know what. Not writing, mostly. Otherwise, I’ve gotten older not wiser, but you already figured that out, I’m sure. I�...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2023/03/mexico-youre-getting-to-be-habit-with-me.html
On a recent Sunday afternoon, as I was a still a bit bleary eyed after Penn State’s thrilling win over Auburn the night before, I headed across the mountain to Mifflin County to Middle Roa...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2021/09/that-time-i-went-to-lawnmower-races.html
I’ve wanted to visit the Hindenburg crash site when I'm at the Jersey shore for some time. What’s more New Jersey than a famous Zeppelin crash? Yes, it would have been better if it had crash...
I haven’t been anywhere in a long time. A LONG time. Pandemics will do that to you. I had tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway and also to go to Mexico in March 2020 when everything stopped. ...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2021/08/quick-trip-to-massachusetts.html
August is the time for my annual trip to fabulous Las Vegas to visit my friends The Other Rick and Tracy. August in Las Vegas with old friends is both a blast and a blast furnace. One day it wa...
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By the time your 40th college reunion comes around, you’re old. The alma mater is eager for you to come back so that you’ll remember it when you’re at the lawyer’s office cutting a ne�...
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Hacienda El Carmen is the Mexican version of a Venetian villa or English country house that has been converted into a luxury hotel and spa. It’s an oasis of manicured lawns, blooming bougain...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2019/04/spring-2019-trip-to-mexico-part-5.html
The day after our trip to Chacala, we left bright and early for an overnight to trip to Tequila. (Upper case Tequila is a place. Lower case tequila is a drink.) Paul is a tequila guy the way th...
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After Billy and Alicia arrived, we took a cab to the bus station, a trip of just a couple of miles. We got to there just in time to buy tickets and catch our bus. We were headed to the town o...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2019/04/spring-2019-trip-to-mexico-part-2.html
On my first full day in Mexico, Paul took us on an four-wheeler excursion, through the jungle and onto the beach. A. and I stood up on the bed, behind the cab as we held on for dear life, goi...
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I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Mexico on the Nayarit Riviera earlier this month. I had a fantastic time. If you have a chance to go there, take it! If my cousin Paul and his lo...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2019/04/spring-2019-trip-to-mexico-part-1.html
Until a few years ago, I didn’t know that Santa Trains were a thing. But they are; there are tons of them. Every scenic railroad and some not so scenic railroads have one. They're simple rea...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2018/12/i-believe-in-santa-trains.html
Earlier this month, my sister and I drove to North Carolina since my niece-in-law was receiving her doctoral degree from UNC. Even if academic robes and Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 we...
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While Martha was giving her paper at her conference, Bruce and I went to the Barber Motorsports Museum. It bills itself as the world’s largest collection of motorcycles. While the photos i...
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After a lunch, Bruce, Martha, and I put the town of Selma into the GPS. Our plan was to do the Voting Rights Trail backwards, driving from Montgomery to its starting place, the Brown Chapel ...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2018/11/montgomery-to-selmaand-then-some.html
After the lynching memorial , we drove around Montgomery in a bit of shock. The memorial really hits you in the gut. In theory we were trying to find a restaurant, but we didn't do very well on...
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The morning after our encounter with Vulcan, we were up and at ‘em early so that we could have breakfast and be on the road to Montgomery. We walked down the street to the Salem’s Diner, w...
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After the Hertz parking lot debacle, the we didn’t stop until we came to the Alabama Welcome Center, just after we crossed from Georgia into Alabama. State welcome centers are always good stops...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2018/10/alabama-bound-vulcan-man-of-iron-not.html
My friends Martha and Bruce were headed to Alabama—she was giving a paper at a conference—and they asked me to tag along. I hadn’t been there in quite some time, so I said sure, count me ...
http://www.thewanderingwahoo.com/2018/10/alabama-bound-in-world-of-hertz.html
Not too long ago I had an idea. It was time to go to Buffalo. No, I’d never been. Because, you know…it’s Buffalo. But Buffalo has more than its share of architectural and histori...
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Ugh, not another trip to Las Vegas. Doesn’t he go anywhere else? I’m sure it seems that way. Consider yourself fortunate that I don’t have good friends in Duluth. (Which I am sure ...
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The other day I sent a link to a Business Insider article to a friend of my late brother Rob. Since Matt works at Amtrak, I thought he’d be interested in the piece about Chinese bullet trains...
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If it’s April, it’s time for my not-quite-annual trip to New York City. The trip started out as it usually does, waiting in the Walmart parking lot for the Megabus. I was hopeful that T...
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