You, Me & Charlie Going on an Adventure

Dianna Agron has a great new site called You, Me & Charlie, and we just happened to come across her love of adventuring and getting lost in this post. 

Hey Dianna, we'd love to go on an adventure with you!

Social Media Wanderlust

While perusing Mashable today, we came across this article with links to 5 companies inspiring wanderlust on YouTube. 

Image via here

What do you think? Happy adventuring!

A Pittsburgh Kind of New Year's Eve

To ring in 2012, we decided to take a trip to Pittsburgh to visit our friend K. We didn't know what to expect, but driving through the hills we sure were surprised. We drove through a tunnel (Liberty tunnel?), and we had been magically transported from a woodsy landscape to a bustling downtown. 

We got to drive through the downtown on our way to K's place, and it was great to see this city that we'd never been to.  A couple of things to note that we didn't expect:

1. The incline! We didn't get a chance to go up (but when we left we actually drove up the mountain/hill). Pretty cool.

2. Pittsburgh is a lot edgier than we thought it would be.

3. Their downtown highway system is complete nonsense, and we got lost when trying to leave. Even the GPS was lost. Hence us ending up on top of the city!

We rang in the New Year with good friends who'd also come to visit, so we didn't do much sightseeing. We did however get to check out some cool eateries and bars while there including Sharp Edge, Buffalo Blues and  Lucky's (?). Not quite sure if that was the name.

Good times, great friends. Thanks Pittsburgh! Happy adventuring!

The Amazing Race

Oh boy. We haven't updated in a long time! Our apologies. Not because we haven't gone on adventures (we have, be it small ones), but possibly out of life "getting in the way". What a horrible saying. Anyway, our apologies.

The good news is that instead of just talking about being on The Amazing Race, we submitted a video! Yay us! Now, hopefully they'll pick us. We'd post it here, but we're not sure of the rules on that. Wish us luck!

Little Indiana

One of our favorite things to do is take day trips to small towns in Indiana. So imagine our delight when we stumbled across the blog Little Indiana, an awesome blog about fun and interesting places to visit across Indiana.

So to all those who say there's only corn in Indiana....well, just check out Little Indiana and let us know what you think!

Happy adventuring!

Home Again

We're glad to be home, but are missing our adventures! At least we have Michigan this summer!   And we'll be sure to keep our eyes open for local adventures too. Remember to dream big, and take the time to enjoy life!

Red Hot and Blue Memphis Music Scene

Today we headed out for a day of Memphis music. Our first stop? The Gibson guitar factory. Since it was Saturday the workers weren't in, but it was still cool to see the process of putting the guitars together. Lots of work! One guitar takes 3 weeks! Unfortunately they don't allow photos, so the only one we have is this one of our tickets.

We then quickly stopped by the historic Peabody Hotel to see the famous ducks. The Peabody ducks march in every day at 11am to hang out in the fountain, and march out at 5pm led by a duckmaster. To get the full story check out this link. We didn't get to see them march, but we got to see them hanging out. Very cool!

After our duck encounter, we headed to the famous Sun Studio, where now-famous artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison recorded in the 1950s. Sun Studio still gets action to this day from artists like U2, John Mellencamp, and Ringo Starr. Chunk even got a picture with the microphone that these great acts have used!

 

We then hopped the free trolley to Graceland . Important tip: Park at Sun Studio for free and their free trolley will drive you around to all the good spots. Just be sure to take the studio tour first! 


We were expecting something gaudy, but Graceland was a very understated home. For those who don't know, Graceland was Elvis's home in Memphis. We upgraded to the platinum package, and got to not only tour the house, but we got to see his cars, clothes, and the Lisa Marie plane. 

 

Below you can see some of the rooms of his house, including the living room, dining room, jungle room, pool room, and kitchen. The second floor is off limits to tourists out of respect to Elvis.

Out back is the meditation garden he used to use, but it now serves as a resting place for Elvis, his parents, and his grandmother.  

Did you know that Elvis bought Graceland at 22? And that he was a huge philanthropist? Learn something new every day!

So that was our second day here. Tomorrow we head home. Originally we had planned to go to St. Louis, but we'll have to save that for a trip out West!