Videos of a “Venturous” Vacation: “Reserved Room for the Griswolds, Please”

Start Here…Prequel Sequel ISequel II After our “Griswold Moment” we hit the road for another 3 hour tour. We were more than relieved to pull up to The Residence Inn in Brentwood, TN (just south of Nashville). Regardless of being 4 hours late, we still beat my parents and sister + her family down, and …

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Videos of a “Venturous” Vacation: Cheese Nips, Downpours, and Maurice

If You Haven’t Already, Read The Prequel and the First Sequel Before Reading Further…. Let me set the scene for this next episode of Videos of a “Venturous” Vacation. Things were going quite smoothly on the first leg of the trip. The boys even took a 45 minute nap and the peaceful view looked like …

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Videos of “Venturous” Vacation: “The Calm Before The Trying to Stay Calm”

Read the Prequel to This Sequel First Okay, so here it goes….. All of you who were unaware that Brad and I are elite members of the “Ultimate Dork Club”. It’s over – we’ve been uncovered. The Proof is in the Pudding Video. Here’s where our “Venture” begins. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride. …

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Videos of a “Venturous” Vacation: A Prequel to Many Sequels

Before I start on some great reality footage of our “Ventures” to Nashville, I’d like to begin with some behind the scenes details of our trip. Around Christmas time, my siblings and I started planning a surprise 50th anniversary celebration for my parents. Their actual anniversary was February 21,2007, so we were only a mere …

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RIP Quadmobile

Our ’98 Chevy Venture was laid to rest in Elizabethtown, KY over the weekend. The engine is T-O-A-S-T! We were on our first real road trip to Nashville, TN to celebrate my parent’s 50th anniversary when she decided to kick the bucket near E-town. I have LOTS of blog material and footage in the works …

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Adventures in the Venture

This past weekend Jen and I decided we would head for our hometown, Covington, IN. Every year on the weekend around Jen’s birthday, Covington has an Apple Festival on the square downtown. Covington is a very small town, and since we both grew up there, we were hoping to catch up with lots of people …

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Colts Training Camp

Ok, new adventure, maybe new family tradition……. Our new friends, the Reynolds, invited us to meet them in Terre Haute today to watch our beloved Colts prepare for another Superbowl season. The Indianapolis Colts hold their training camp each year and allow fans to come watch. We decided this sounded like a fun new adventure …

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Home Sweet Home

The air conditioner is up and running, our many bags are unpacked, and we are sleeping in our own beds/cribs. We survived! Actually, we got quite spoiled while we were “homeless” with a down feathered bed, home-cooked meals, feeders for the boys, a swim, and cold A/C!!!! A huge thank you to our host families, …

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