Blogs from Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, North America

Such a cool Place! I love this area! Did I mention "I LOVE THIS AREA OF INDY"? Just in case I needed to make that point stronger. I had no idea such a cool area existed in INDY, for this city its certainly a refreshing gem to find. Its hip and cool with a laid back earthy quality to the area. We initially went to see exactly what the Monon trail was because i read about it in an article. Which turned out to be a path that allowed for a peaceful stroll or bike ride. Then I found out that the bakery Renee was in Broad Ripple which made it sweeter. This tiny bakery is the closest I have been to comparable reak German styled bakery items. It may be small but there is alot ... read more

City Market is a pretty cool lil trip near by circle city. It definitly provides you with a variety of lunch choices and that was the main reason I went...FOOD!! Yep, no surprise if you read any previous blogs by me, I love to try new food everywhere I go. I am being surprised by Indy everyday on the food side. I'm surprised it hasn't been talked about in many travel forums that Indy has a vast pool of really good eats to sample. However I have discovered the Hoosiers may be hiding their gems on purpose. Thats just my opinion anyway. The City Market is small compared to other city markets but you still get to meet Hoosier local specialties which is the point of a city market. There are two levels, the tables to ... read more

Its probably no big surprise to my friends that I LOVE to try new foods. One of my favorite things to do when traveling is to research what places in that area are considered a must or has some kind of following by the locals. Urbanspoon has become my favorite app for this purpose. In Indianapolis it gets no bigger than The Shapiros Deli, as a matter of fact their Rueben sandwhich was voted the #1 iconic sandwhich for Indy during the superbowl. My husbands family has been visiting this place for years. Its a Koscher deli which means things are going to be really fresh. We went to Shapiros for our annivesary because we were tight on money from our move to this city and I wanted to see why it's Rueben voted #1. When ... read more

so its been a while since the last posts when we went to europe...ah what fun..until the end there, ah well.....now i figured thsi would be a great time to blog my newest adventure! my first archaeological field school! so basically, classes are almost done and im starting to get all antsy to pack things up for field school. this is going to be great! expect losts of pics every day and explanations of whats going on... this is a field school run dfirectly by indiana university, iupui and the bloomington campus in conjuntion with the glen black research institute..he was a dude who first excavated angle mounds down in evansville indiana..its a missippian indian site and thats where i will be going. we all will be staying in a fully fursnished apartment complex near by ... read more

Being in Indianapolis since November and needing a much deserved nite of fun, my husband took me out to enjoy the well known strip called Massachusettes Ave. Here is where you will find a mixture of places to have a great dinner, grab a drink and have some entertainment. This street has a collection of cute boutiques that range from sweets to fabric stores and antiques. Places on this street you may have heard of is the Flying Cupcake, YATS (Creole food), Tini an upcoming Martini bar, The Chatterbox, The Mesh and many others. They are all next door to each other. All you need to do is park and get there before closing time for some of the places. We met our party at 8:00pm on a Saturday and the Flying Cupcake was closed much ... read more

Have you been wondering where the Wanderlust Crew has been the past few days? We’ve been doing some heavy travelling. We crossed the rest of Utah and enjoyed the majestic views. We were thrilled to see the ski hills in Colorado especially Vale and discovered Copper Mountain, for a future ski trip. Anyone want to join us? Joe, Da and Deb were tempted to stop and ski a few runs, but decided to wait until next time. The snow capped mountains were awesome as we had just missed a snow storm. We were happy that we didn’t have to have chains on our tires...according to law, you can’t drive the roads in the winter weather without them. We drove through a tunnel, approximately 1.6 miles, through a mountain as we drove to Denver. We stayed in ... read more