One of my family’s favorite places to visit throughout the year is the Dawes Arboretum. It’s located in Newark, Ohio. There is almost 2,000 acres of land to explore. If you love gardens, plants, trees, wetlands and more, you will want to see the beauty of this place. So if you are ever in the area, you should stop by…
Have you ever been to the Ohio State Reformatory? You may have also heard it as the Mansfield Reformatory. It is located in Mansfield, Ohio. I have heard about it over the years but we never went to check it out until recently. We actually went to tour the place this past weekend. It was built in 1886 through 1910…
One of my favorite places to hike and picnic is at Conkle’s Hollow, Hocking Hills. Conkle’s Hollow is a Nature Preserve located in the Hocking Hills Region of Ohio. There are many state parks, preserves, and hiking trails in the area. The biggest and most popular is Old Man’s Cave. Conkle’s Hollow was named for W.J. Conkle who carved his…
Hocking Hills, Cedar Falls “This remote, primitive chasm is laden with hemlock and bound by steep rock walls and their accompanying grottos and waterfalls. It is a wild and lonely but spectacularly beautiful place. Cedar Falls itself is the greatest waterfall in terms of volume in the Hocking region. Queer Creek tumbles over the face of the Blackhand sandstone displaying…
When we went to Dayton a few weeks ago to go to the US Air Force Museum, we stopped at RiverScape Metro Park before we headed back home. There’s a few things to do there in the summer and even in the winter including ice skating. At the park there is a pavilion where events are sometimes held. Alongside the…
A few weeks ago we headed down to Dayton, Ohio for something to do. We checked out the US Air Force Museum and before heading home we stopped at the River Scape Metro Park. We wanted to make sure we saw the Five River Fountain of Lights before we left. It’s a really impressive fountain. It’s actually one of the…
A couple weekends go we headed up to the Easton Town Center. We hadn’t been up there in a long while but there was a car show going on in the Town Center. My husband wanted to take our boys up there after he heard about it. The Town Center is in Easton which isn’t far from Columbus, Ohio. There…
This is the third part of our trip to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Make sure to check out my U.S. Air Force Museum Part 1 and Part 2. The links to my previous posts are at the bottom of this post if you want to check them out. The first part includes the aircraft used throughout…
This is the second part of our trip to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This post is all about the Presidential Gallery. This was actually the last gallery we checked out but I was too excited to share to wait until last for this part. Make sure to check out my U.S. Air Force Museum part 1…
We were looking for something to do this past weekend and early last week I had come across another blogger’s post about the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Since we live in Ohio and only about an hour and a half away, we decided to go check it out for ourselves. Yep guys, I am a copycat. With…