In all of my life, bowling to me has meant one thing – Candlepin. I can’t help it, I’m a New Englander. So when my journey with Wholly Guacamole and Austin Andrews would allow me to branch out and catch up with the rest of the country on what it means to bowl, I jumped at the [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Since last Wednesday and until this Saturday, September 24th, I’m traveling. You may have noticed that the reason for my travel has overtaken my Twitter feed a bit. I’m on the road with Wholly Guacamole on the Check Your Choice tour with Austin Andrews, a recent finalist on The Biggest Loser. For this campaign, we’re visiting [...]
One year ago on Monday, September 5th, Mike and I celebrated the one year anniversary of our marriage. This post is a little late, but about this time last year we were on our honeymoon, hopping between Spain, Gibraltar and Tunisia, so I figure that counts for something. I can’t believe how quickly time has [...]
I can barely swim. Actually, I think I could swim to save my life, but because my group swim lessons as a child occurred at a time when I was overly sensitive and extremely shy, it was too hard for me to get the most out of them. Instead, they were an unnecessarily traumatic childhood [...]
We had just finished eating dinner at the hotel restaurant and it was meant to be a low key night, but as we walked toward the lobby, Mike thought he caught someone special in the corner of his eye. We took a few steps back and sure enough, it was him. Our new friend, Mike [...]
When you only have so much time in one place you have to be selective, especially when there is so much to do – and in Halifax, that’s absolutely the case. We took our first day one step at a time, wandering around most of the city on foot and stopping by some pretty cool [...]
While we couldn’t eat authentic Prince Edward Island lobsters because the season had just passed, it didn’t feel right leaving PEI without a proper lobster supper. Following a tip from a local, we found ourselves spending our last night in on this beautiful island in Cardigan - Cardigan Lobster Supper to be exact. The lobster [...]
One day a while back I asked Mike what he thought about us becoming an “active” couple. While we are both reasonably athletic people, we have some roadblocks–we don’t ski or golf or have bikes. We have resolved to eventually get into hiking since there are plenty of options for us in the New England [...]
