Blogs from Cleveland Area, Ohio, United States, North America - page 2

After Rock & Roll Hall of Fame I went to Lake View Cemetery . For some reason I like to visit cemeteries. I like to look at the memorials, the stones, and read the epitaph and imagine what their lives were like. Lake View Cemetery is one of the popular ones, probably in the country. Home to the 20th President of the USA...Garfield's Monument, Wade Chapel, and the Collinwood School Fire memorial where 172 children died and it helped propelled fire safety measures throughout the country.... read more

We hit the road and headed for Cleveland where we hoped we would find more to do than in Buffalo. After a couple of hours driving we drive through Cleveland, it wasn't better than Buffalo and there was no way we were going to park the car and leave it with all of our stuff in it! So we headed on through and found a hotel with pool and gym so hit the treadmills and pool and then headed out for dinner and beers in preparation for Detroit the next day!... read more

Hey all! It's really come down to the last few days ... I am getting SO nervous, sad, excited and happy .. and most of all STRESSED! I have been so lucky and happy to have been able to say goodbye to friends, family, classmates and former teachers, but to those who I have not seen or have no opportunity to see before I go, I would like to say goodbye in my next blog to you all, which will be the day I take off for NYC! Once I am in Portugal with my host aunt and uncle, I will write my next one about my first adventures with AFS students and such... I just felt that now is an good moment to write another one since it is getting close to my leave for ... read more

I have had a great couple of days here in the Cleveland area. Two nights ago we stayed in a small town on Lake Erie just west of Cleveland called Lakewood. Kristen had a bad cold and some pink eye, so we visited the local hospital in the morning to get some antibiotics, but she is fine now. We then rolled over to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I honestly thought that we could motor through this museum in a couple of hours, but we found ourselves staying there for four hours. Kristen then found the house that was filmed in the movie A Christmas Story. They still have the famous leg lamp and Christmas tree in the windows. Now the owners run tours, but unfortunately we went on a day they were closed. ... read more

What's hot: The New England Patriots wall at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. What's also hot: Two nights at the same hotel. Also hot: World's largest AAA Travel office--where they're lined up seven deep. Paul speculates: "Many Ohioans are trying to leave in a hurry." What's not: The hotel room movie "10000 BC" Travel lesson of the day: Make sure you have plenty of Internet log-in options wherever you go. from Kathy: People ask: How can you be away from work for so long? Answer: We're not. We're sort of mobile telecommuters. I worked about nine hours yesterday, battling bad Internet connections all the way. While the men went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I stayed behind. Paul has been returning calls and writing reports as we travel, too. ... read more