By Traci Suppa ( January 27, 2012 at 4:20 am) · Filed under Biggest, Family travel, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Road trip, Virginia
See, the problem with taking frequent family road trips is that it gets to be a part of you, and you end up needing to hit the road as frequently as possible. We didn’t travel anywhere this month. It’s killing me.
However, staying put gave me the opportunity to plan out our next several adventures. Travel planning is almost as fun as the travel itself; without all the back seat fight refereeing. (“Stop singing in your brother’s ear. Let your sister pick the DVD. Give him back the pretzels. Did you just take her last sip? LET’S ALL PLAY THE QUIET GAME!!”)
In a few short weeks, the Go BIG family is wheels up! Here’s what the next few months look like:
February – Pittsburgh, PA
The world’s largest permanent robotics exhibition – “roboworld” – at the Carnegie Science Center
The world’s largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Credit: Joshua Franzos for Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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By Traci Suppa ( April 22, 2011 at 7:15 am) · Filed under Bigg-ish, Easter, Free to see, Holidays, Midwest, Ohio, Photo Friday, Roadside Attractions, Easter basket
So, I was going to color Easter eggs with a “Go BIG or Go Home” message, similar to what I did with the Christmas cookies and the Jack O’Lanterns. I would like partial credit for the idea. The wrinkle in that plan is that the eggs would be colored on Thursday, and they would have to stay fresh until Sunday.
I’m happy and relieved to have found something MUCH better to share with you for our Easter post! A really BIG basket! This is the Lorain Easter Basket in Ohio.
Many thanks to Dominique King for sharing her photo with us! Dominique is the blogger behind Midwest Guest. A travel writer at heart, Midwest Guest allows her to share stories about the often underappreciated Heartland region of the U.S.
Dominque reports that Lorain’s big Easter Basket draws scores of visitors to the park on Ohio’s Lake Erie shore each spring to take photos of their families in their Easter finery. City parks employee David Shukait created the 7-foot-tall concrete sculpture, and the City of Lorain installed it as part of a public works project in 1941.
See more photos and get more info on her blog today.
Happy Easter!!
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