When we were in Seattle a month ago one of the things we thought about doing was watch a baseball game at the local stadium. We often consider this idea on our trip (we’ve actually considered rearranging bits of our trip around the LA Dodgers schedule), but thus far the only day we’d actually [...]

Got to Houston on Thursday, got $10 tickets for the Dodgers/Astros game. Enjoyed my free hot dog, chips and drink. Wanted to buy popcorn to throw at obnoxious, screaming children. They were really noisy, and kept shouting dumb stuff like “hit it that way” and pointing (we were in the 400s upper [...]

Yesterday (Tuesday) we went to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico (we are trying to do the best we can with our National Parks Annual Pass). We got there too late to go in the “natural cave entrance” so instead we got to take the 75 story elevator down to the “big [...]