July 8, 2008
Dog Day Afternoon (Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest)
Tim "Gravy" Brown (Professional Competitive Eater): Wait...
June 23, 2008
How to Spend a Weekend in Champaign, Illinois.
Weekend in Champaign: Thursday I hit the road just before 6pm. Summer scheduling at work = every other Friday off = eight three- (or four-) day weekends this summer = the perfect chance to go hang out for a weekend in Champaign with people I never...
May 27, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend in Decatur, Michigan
This weekend was three-day weekend #1. I have five more three-day weekends and two four-day weekends ahead of me this summer. And I plan to fill them all! Here was my Memorial Day Weekend in Decatur, Michigan in ten items or less: 1. Friday night I met...
December 4, 2007
Viva Las Vegas!
Pop Quiz: Alina's plane to Las Vegas leaves at 7:30am. Val's plane leaves at 8:40am. Who arrives at the airport first? If you guessed Alina, you are sadly mistaken and do not know me at all...
November 27, 2007
Have you seen the muffler man? A Road Trip Around Chicago.
Sunday Emily and I took a road trip around Chicago. OK, so I am not sure if it really counts as a road trip if the whole thing takes less than twelve hours and you go no further than 45 miles away from home...
October 29, 2007
Road Pong: a Road Trip Through Kentucky
I woke up at 5am on Saturday morning surprisingly awake. I think it was kind of like when you're a kid how you can wake up on Christmas morning before anyone else and be completely ready to go. Except instead of waiting for Santa Claus...
October 16, 2007
Upper Gauley White Water Rafting in West Virginia
My friends and I went on a road trip to go on an Upper Gauley White Water Rafting trip in West Virginia from October 11-14, Here is the recap and pictures from our weekend away...
October 11, 2007
No freezing, rainy tents this year…we hope…
Where in the world is Valerie Bromann? a. White Water Rafting in West Virginia. b. Drowning. c. Chillaxing in a cabin. d. Freezing her ass off e. All of the above. answer: most likely e. all of the above. ...
August 20, 2007
Cleveland Rocks the Casbah.
Friday: Driving to Cleveland, Ohio Nadia picked me up and then we headed off to Cleveland, Ohio! OK...