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Tussey Mountain OR Why I Can’t Attend Brewfests
Last weekend, after recovering from my jet lag for two days, I set sail for State College (Bellefonte to be more precise) to attend the State College Brewing Expo. My buddy who goes to grad school at...
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Eating and Drinking Our Way Through Lancaster PA
. Yesterday my mom and sister came down for the day. She hadn’t yet seen my current apartment, wanted to get dinner, and presumably shop. I was wondering what I’d do with them the rest of the day...
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The Lancaster Beer Trail
Growing up in NEPA you learn to love Coors, Miller, and PBR (in an unironic manner). Craft beer wasn’t part of the vocabulary and microbreweries were few and far between. Regional beer was limited to...
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Pennsylvania Oktoberfests
I keep getting the same reaction when I tell people I went to an Oktoberfest this weekend: “that’s weird, it’s only September.” Only, it’s not weird. It’s reality. The original German Ocktoberfest is...
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Run for Your Lives
No offense to year-long residents of Darlington Maryland, but your town has an innate creepiness about it that proves the perfect place to hold a zombie mud run. It didn’t take that much...
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2013 Evaluation
It’s been a little over a year since I started this blog, and to be honest, I’ve kept up with it much more than I thought I would. I have a habit of starting a bunch of projects and abandoning them...
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Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire
I think I’ve been pretty adamant (and hopefully repentive) of the fact that I didn’t give Lancaster a fair shot when first got here and that there’s a lot to do in the area. It’s getting to the point...
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Weekend Trip Idea: Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina is one of those “small towns,” like Jim Thorpe and Lititz, that consistently pop up on all sorts magazine and online lists. I put small towns in quotes as, with a population...
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The Dying NEPA Picnic Scene
Growing up in NEPA, summertime always meant picnic season. If you want to know the ins and outs of what exactly it is and what picnics are still occurring check out […]
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In Defense of “Shitty” Beer
I came across the billboard pictured above at the beginning of the summer and was immediately smitten. Not only did it hearken back to the “Tuesday is the new Thursday” […]
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10 Barcrawls You Should Try
Sometimes I forget that I didn’t start this solely as a travel blog but also for the whole”weekend fun” bit. Sometimes you can’t get out of town but still want to […]
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My Favorite Pennsylvania Bars (and my “good bar” checklist)
One of the things I always inevitably start researching when going to a new locale is the bar scene. While I’m a big believer that any bar could be fun with […]
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Top NEPA Bars
Last week I clued you into my favorite Scranton bars as part of my March, “Favorite Bars of Pennsylvania series,” in case you find yourself at Scranton’s parade day this weekend […]
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Harrisburg Bars
Despite being our capital city, I never knew much about Harrisburg growing up (although to be fair, I must have been somewhat sheltered up there in NEPA as I also didn’t realize Lancaster was an...
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Weekend Trip Idea: Lehigh Valley Ale Trail
I think “Allentown” is probably my favorite Pennsylvania-centric anthem. And by favorite, I mean I really love the song and am jealous that it’s not about Scranton or NEPA because […]
View ArticleA Weekend on the Richmond VA Beer Trail
When your Saturday starts with a giant soft pretzel surrounding a mound of kielbasa and cheese, with a nice, tall hefeweizen to wash it down with, you know it’s going to be a solid weekend. I spent a...
View ArticleWeekly Check In- Some Breweries I’d Like to Visit
Much like hikes, books, and things to watch on Netflix, I can’t seem to keep up with all the breweries I’d like to experience. It doesn’t hurt that they’re popping up at rapid pace. There’s currently...
View ArticleFinally Checking Out the Lehigh Valley Ale Trail
A couple years ago, I wrote about the Lehigh Valley Ale Trail, a now defunct website (my blog post is still very much intact) promoting the robust (I’m currently re-watching Season 1 of Veep, and if...
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