Meriden Travel Blogs

This morning, for the second time in my life, I woke up in a field somewhere in West Virginia.  This was the last time I would be waking up in a tent.  I reflected on our journey, how in just over a month's time we traveled through 25 of the 50 states, and visited over 20 National Pa…

My son Tyler just turned 16 in March, and my Mother wanted to give him a special gift....so why not a trip to the US Virgin Islands?  My sister has lived in St Thomas for 5 years now, and it's about time she had a visit from her nephew!  Mom bought our airfare almost a year in advanc…

Well, I am all packed up and ready to go!   I'm going to take the train from New Haven to New York City, and stay at my friend Lee's apartment tonight in Manhatten.  Weather permitting, we will fly out of JFK airport tomorrow.   Today, they are having weather delays du…

Always looking for an excuse to take a trip!  I guess that's the philosophy of most of us on TravBuddy!  I had accepted another job offer, and was finishing out the month of July at the old place.  My girlfriend Melissa had long since put in for the first week of August as her vacati…

We left Newport after the Cliff Walk.  It was still early afternoon, but it was a 2 and a half hour drive home, and Lee and Emily still had another 2 hour train ride after that.   We said our goodbyes to Joe and Jenn, who had come up in their own car, and then we headed back wes…

Went cross country with my Dad ("WaltJake") last summer, but we ran out of time and didn't get to go everywhere we wanted to. This is a rough draft of where we want to go next time! If anybody knows of anything interesting to see near our travel path, please let me know!

Well thanks to a wrong turn we miised going to the dino park, so after we made the appointment for a tattoo all the way down in CT we were just going to backtrack the few miles to go to the park.  The weather had different plans, it began to pour, so no dino park for us.  Then we headed t…