{"id":14533,"date":"2020-01-08T07:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14533"},"modified":"2020-01-05T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T17:58:50","slug":"2019-the-year-in-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/2019-the-year-in-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"2019: The Year In Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Once again, I thought it would be nice to look back at the many trips I took this year.\u00a0 As you may recall from last year<\/a>‘s wrap-up, the year began in California.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>New Year’s Day was spent in Pasadena for the Rose Parade, where Danny and the Lincoln-Way Marching Band were performing.\u00a0 Lucky for them, they were slotted right after the float that caught on fire and eventually mucked up the entire end of the parade.\u00a0 However, they were able to march around the disabled float and keep things moving for the time being.\u00a0 The next day we went to the California ScienCenter, where we were able to see artifacts from King Tut’s tomb and the space shuttle Endeavor, and the beach before heading home.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And home is where I stayed for a whole month before heading out to Hawaii in February.\u00a0 I arrived that first Saturday in February, checking out my surroundings around the resort and down Waikiki Beach after the long flight.\u00a0 Monday, I took a tour of the island of Oahu, with stops at Hanauma Bay, Nu’uanu Pali lookout,<\/span> Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, Sunset Beach, Waimea Falls, and the Dole Plantation.\u00a0 Tuesday, I took in a whale watching cruise, where we were able to see multiple whales surfacing during the excursion.\u00a0 Thursday, I traveled over to Pearl Harbor and all of the associated attractions and museums.\u00a0 Come the following Saturday, it was time to head home on an overnight flight that got me in town very early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Come June, the whole family headed east to celebrate Michael’s graduation.\u00a0 We flew into Baltimore, where Dennis, the boys, and I went to breakfast before heading to Camden Yards to see the Orioles take on the Giants.\u00a0 On the way to the stadium, we stopped at the grave site of Edgar Allen Poe and the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum.\u00a0 After the game, we walked to the local bus depot, where we caught a bus to Washington DC for the remainder of the trip.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The week in DC was spent taking in most, if not all, of the tourist sites.\u00a0 We went to the Smithsonian Zoo, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Newseum, the National Air and Space Museum, Ford’s Theatre, the Supreme Court building, and the Library of Congress.\u00a0 We went on tours of the US Capitol and the White House.\u00a0 We saw the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial (where we saw Big Bird, of all people), the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, and the Vietnam War Memorial.\u00a0 In the middle of all this, we also managed to take in a Nationals game, watching them defeat the White Sox on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The last Sunday in July, the whole family headed up to Milwaukee, to see the Brewers take on the Cubs.\u00a0 It was the first trip to Miller Park for both Danny and Michael.\u00a0 After the game, we had a nice dinner followed by a trip down the Milwaukee Riverwalk to see the Bronze Fonz.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was home for less than 12 hours before I headed out to San Francisco for a work trip.\u00a0 I was out there for 2 weeks (but home for the weekend in between) to ingratiate the Esurance (RIP) team to our ways.\u00a0 There wasn’t a whole lot of time for sightseeing, though I did manage to go for a walk each morning down the waterfront, enjoying the sights and the sea air.\u00a0 Thursday of the second week was my big night out, as I trekked down to Pier 39 to see the seals before heading over to Oracle Park to see the Giants take on the Phillies.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thanks to some flight rescheduling on the Washington trip, I had a credit on Southwest that I parlayed into a $3 flight to Cleveland during the week of Labor Day.\u00a0 I was in town for less than 36 hours, which I spent watching the Indians battle the White Sox on both Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

I spent the last weekend in October, including the morning of my birthday, in Indianapolis\u00a0with the rest of the family for an exciting marching band competition.\u00a0 After an early morning performance at the home of the Colts, we killed time during the day with miniature golf and a showing of Joker<\/em> before returning to Lucas Oil Stadium for a late night of more marching and awards.\u00a0 Sunday morning breakfast ended the trip before a long drive home.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Once again, I headed out again the next morning, this time to Boston to see Angelina for our birthday dinner.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to me, she had suffered a concussion the day before, so she was busy for most of the day.\u00a0 After chilling in the hotel for a bit, I headed over to campus for a late lunch before waiting for her at a protest I happened across, trying to stop hate monger Ben Shapiro from coming to campus for a speech.\u00a0 After dinner, she headed back to her dorm to rest and I left early the next morning to return home.<\/p>\n

My final trip of the year came in early December, as the whole family traveled up to Ann Arbor, Michigan to see Angelina and the BU Synchro team perform in a skating competition.\u00a0 We were in town for less than 24 hours, so, outside of food and the skating, we didn’t see a whole lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I thought it would be nice to look back at the many trips I took this year.\u00a0 As you may recall from last year‘s wrap-up, the year began in California. New Year’s Day was spent in Pasadena for the Rose Parade, where Danny and the Lincoln-Way Marching Band were performing.\u00a0 Lucky for them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[275,8545,8568,8557,8110,121,8562,8215,4127,8565,120,5,298,8543,8544,8217,8563,8550,256,8538,115,8556,8567,8216,8559,801,8551,8554,8005,8566,1522,600,8561,8553,8549,117,1661,8548,8539,8472,50,1469,254,8564,8006,8547,8546,8541,8511,8552,8540,8560,8252,8542,8555,8510,49,8558],"class_list":["post-14533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-arm","tag-babe-ruth-birthplace-museum","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-big-bird","tag-boston-university","tag-brewers","tag-bronze-fonz","tag-california-sciencenter","tag-camden-yards","tag-colts","tag-cubs","tag-dennis","tag-dlm","tag-dole-plantation","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-endeavor","tag-esurance","tag-fords-theatre","tag-giants","tag-hanauma-bay","tag-indians","tag-jefferson-memorial","tag-joker","tag-king-tut","tag-korean-war-memorial","tag-labor-day","tag-library-of-congress","tag-lincoln-memorial","tag-lincoln-way-marching-band","tag-lucas-oil-stadium","tag-mdm","tag-miller-park","tag-milwaukee-riverwalk","tag-mlk-jr-memorial","tag-national-air-and-space-museum","tag-nationals","tag-new-years-day","tag-newseum","tag-nuuanu-pali-lookout","tag-oracle-park","tag-orioles","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-phillies","tag-pier-39","tag-rose-parade","tag-smithsonian-museum-of-american-history","tag-smithsonian-zoo","tag-sunset-beach","tag-supreme-court-building","tag-us-capitol-building","tag-valley-of-the-temples-memorial-park","tag-vietnam-war-memorial","tag-waikiki-beach","tag-waimea-falls","tag-washington-monument","tag-white-house","tag-white-sox","tag-world-war-ii-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15451,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions\/15451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}