There is this great list of 125 places to have a beer before you die, courtesy of All About Beer. It was published way back in 2008, but is a delightfully relevant list 2 years later (which I suppose is a good recommendation for a list like this.)
Amy planned our summer vacation around the list. Isn’t she awesome?
In order of how we visited them on this trip (not their place on the list):
Great Lost Bear, Portland ME
Gritty McDuff’s, Portland ME
Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown NY
Clark’s Ale House, Syracuse NY
The Blue Tusk, Syracuse NY
F.X. Matt Brewery Tasting Room (aka Saranac Brewery), Utica NY
Besides these five, I’ve already been to these places on the list:
- Monk’s Café, Philadelphia, PA
- Hofbrauhaus, Munich, Germany
- The Brickskeller, Washington, DC
- French Quarter during Mardi Gras, New Orleans, LA
- Andechs Monastery, Andechs, Germany
- Goose Island Brewing, Chicago, IL
- Cooter Brown’s, New Orleans, LA
- Sunset Grille & Tap, Boston, MA
Other places we visited on our trip included:
Ithaca Brewery
Empire Brewery
Middle Ages Brewing
Beer is awesome.
Tags: blogging apathy, dogs, flowers, hydrangea, mostly a photo, ocean, self-portrait, vacation
house, life, the dogs, travels | Megan 07/31/2009 | 
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Playing with:
Amy and I received some money for Christmas and we’d been trying to figure out what to splurge on. One day I sent her an email asking, “Should we get a Wii?” I think you could have knocked her over with a feather she was so surprised. Needless to say, I’m not much into gaming and actually made her put her old-school Nintendo system out in the garage when we bought the house. But we got the Wii and so far I’m really enjoying our one game (the one that comes with it) with tennis, bowling, and baseball. In a few months we’ll probably splurge a little more and get the Wii Fit. I’ve heard such good things about it. Do you have any experience with it? Worth it?
Visting:
We went to Cabo San Lucas, Baja, Mexico with my parents and Amy’s parents! It was wonderfully fun and although I wasn’t sick of winter before we left, I sure am now. You can see all my photos at Flickr. A few of my favorite memories:
- eating my body weight in guacamole
- snorkeling at Chileno Bay where we saw all sorts of amazing fish including a moon wrasse and several king angelfish
- whale watching from our patio
- four flat tires at the airport
Photos courtesy Richard Ling (license) and laszlo-photo (license) on Flickr, under Creative Commons licenses.
Reading:
Neil Gaiman. How have I never read anything by him other than his collaborative Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett) before? He’s an amazing storyteller. On vacation I read Anansi Boys and The Graveyard Book.
Other Stuff:
I’ve been doing lots of other stuff too (hockey, soccer, LWD – living with dogs, and working) and will probably write about some of those things at some point. I’ve also got a post brewing about useful software products for undergraduates (or other folks) who want to stop using so much paper. It involves things like Zotero and Evernote, but oh so much more…. Stay tuned!
For the first part of our vacation this year, we spent close to a week in Maine at Amy’s sister’s new house. There was a big snowstorm the day we drove up, so we all took advantage of the snow and went sledding over the next couple of days. Here are a few of my favorite photos.
Auntie Amy and Cameron go over the jump – Amy poses with the new house
Uncle Karl takes Cameron down – Amy B takes Amy S on her first-ever sledding run
Woo-hoooo!
Holly and Hannah catch air – Karl struggles to stay upright (he failed)
The rest of the set is at Flickr.
This short trip cost us $20 per hour, according to my mother’s calculations. Insane but ultimately worth the cost. We got to see my grama today on our way to the airport, always nice because we don’t spend Thanksgiving with her. Now we are in the airport at Milwaukee, the place of horrible food. Luckily we grabbed some lunch in Minneapolis – chicken and wild rice soup. Yummy! Unfortunately we still have no free Internet (boo MSP & Milwaukee airports) so this won’t get posted until we are home. Off to find a drink before our flight…
