Blogs from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, North America

Yesterday was fun, today just as much. Our goal was to learn more about this city and surroundings. We spent Tuesday night in Covington, Kentucky. We have learned that on the south-side of Cincinnati are two wonderful towns on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, Covington and Newport. I'm sure we are among the few that did not know this but we were happy to learn about it. Our dinner last night was in Newport. It has a lot of recent development along the river and seems upscale from other areas. This morning we took advantage of public transportation by walking a couple of blocks to catch the Southbank Shuttle Trolley. It circulates from Covington over to Cincinnati and then back across to Newport. We exited in Newport and walked along the river to the ... read more

Oh the beauty of a book festival! So excited to spend Saturday morning among other book -lovers, reading books, smelling books, talking about books. All these good things. I even got to take a photo with Little Critter from my book, "All by myself" by Mercer Mayer. Then over to the Underground Railroad Museum. It was an intense experience - detailing the slave trade, the underground railroad as well as modern-day slavery. The entire exhibits were incredible beautiful and sad and had so much detail that the entire experience was almost overwhelming. There is just so much information and the visit is entirely worth it.... read more

Today was a lot of driving. I mean, a lot. I didn't really see a lot, or at least as much as I normally do in a day on this road trip. But I did get to see some good people and have an unexpected pilgrimage of sorts. So that's fun. First off, I slept a little later than normal, but I was back in the Eastern Time Zone for the first morning, so I'm having to readjust to that. I guess my body is still on Central Time. No big deal, just an hour. Unless you factor in that you told someone you would meet them at X time and now that's an hour earlier for you. That's probably the biggest thing about doing a solo road trip vs. meeting up with people: you can't ... read more

We slept in; it's a holiday!! 29 years ago today I was in Labor on Labor Day! Josh's B-day Sept 3rd. We had coffee out on Pati's balcony. I wish I had taken a picture. It is pretty; her plants and flowers are beautiful...the humming birds are always fighting. We were lazy most of the morning; we started our laundry. We brought it with us; much easier than doing it at a laundry mat. We took showers then headed down to the Great American Ball Park. We parked at Pati's work lot...so convenient; it is one block to the stadium. We stopped at the Red's gift shop outside the ballpark. We asked if they had any Pete Rose shirts, hats, etc. Of course the answer is no. Major League baseball will not allow anything with his ... read more

March 21, 2013 Built 130 years ago in 1882, The Cincinnatian Hotel, was our get-a-way room for the night. It was originally named the Palace Hotel. We were visiting the new Horseshoe Cincinnati Casino in Cincinnati, and since they don’t have a hotel on site, they comped us a room at The Cincinnatian. There are other hotels in the city that have partnered with the Horseshoe, but after staying here I don’t think we’ll go anywhere else. From the beautiful lobby to our actual room, the hotel was 1st Class. I don’t remember being issued an actual key in years. Don’t keep this one as a souvenir, though, it will cost you $50! We were in room 513. It actually looked like a bedroom. In fact, the entire room (remodeled, of course) didn’t have that “tired, ... read more