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SchMaui15: amazing Hawaiian experiences
Guest post by Lee Ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the Great Wall of China, I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt, I’ve even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years as a sportscaster have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we’ve witnessed here today!* These are the comments that were going through my head after some amazing experiences that have occurred over the past few days in Hawaii. Day 2 in Hawaii After spending the morning of our first full day on Maui snorkeling and the morning of our second day snorkeling, MeLinda and I decide to try our hand at…
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Extreme travel: Riding Verrückt, the world’s tallest water slide
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — “I think I see something menacing out there,” said Ken, one of the travel writers on our Extreme Kansas City press trip, as our van turned into the drive at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. A 79-year-old writer from Tennessee, Ken had been fairly quiet on the first two days of the trip so his quip surprised us and the understated delivery of his words made us laugh. For those of us preparing to ride Verrückt, ours was a nervous laugh. “Something menacing” looked downright threatening as I walked toward the wooden tower jutting into the otherwise flat landscape. The ride is twice as high as Kansas City code officials normally allow structures.…
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#Schummer14: Day 27-28 recap ~ the end of Summer of Schnyder
Our last two days of the Summer of Schnyder (#schummer14) road trip were spent driving through familiar territory – from Cincinnati, Ohio, we went across Indiana, Illinois (which we passed through at the beginning of the trip, although farther north) and then into my home state of Missouri and finally Kansas. We arrived in my hometown of Columbia, Mo., on Sunday afternoon in time to have dinner with my step-dad, my nephew and his wife and my sister-in-law at G&D, a small, family-owned steakhouse that opened a year before I was born. I remember having meals here every Friday night with my parents and aunt & uncle in the late…
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#Schummer14: Day 25-26 recap of Summer of Schnyder ~ Cincinnati, Ohio
We made another change to our Summer of Schnyder itinerary by altering our route home. Instead of going through Cleveland, we went straight to Cincinnati because we realized that we didn’t really have time to do much there (and Lee had already been there for a baseball game). Lee had been to Cincinnati years ago and saw a game at the old stadium; I’d never been. But the main draw was that our friend Melissa had recently moved there and we wanted to hang out with her for a few days. We arrived on a Friday in time for a late lunch at Dewey’s Pizza, where we had tasty pizza…
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#Schummer14: Day 24 recap of Summer of Schnyder ~ the long drive toward home starts
We have been fortunate on the Schummer of Schnyder trip to not have very many days of long driving with no stops – we pretty much went state to state here in the northeast. For example, we had breakfast in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and lunch in Portland, Maine, where we spent the rest of the day. Even driving up to our farthest eastern destination – Bar Harbor – was a slow drive winding along the coast of Maine with stops in many of the small harbor towns. So when Thursday, Aug. 7 came along we were prepared to suck it up and just drive. Well, Lee did…