Category: Travel

tomatoes in culinary cleveland

This jug of tomatoes marinating in vodka sits behind the bar at Crop Bistro, an unusual spot on West Sixth Street. That’s one of the places where Cleveland’s Convention & Visitors Bureau...

fresh lawyers in door county

I just had fresh lawyers for dinner. Like much of what’s found on menus here on Washington Island, lawyers are fish. They have other names in other places — burbot in other...

washington Island: the real deal

Mann’s here on Washington Island had contact lens cases and almost anything else one could want, including groceries galore, fishing lures, yogurt, toilets, rugs and more. It’s an old time country store...

sleepy island getaway

I’m on a sleepy island in Lake Michigan – a place without chain restaurants, hotels and other tourism infrastructure. I’m here to research a story for readers who want to make a...

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baklava in Superman’s Cleveland

That’s Martha Manning with a tasty triangle of baklava, the sweet honey and walnut pastry given to everyone who visited Athens Bakery on a recent Cleveland ethnic and history tour. The other...

trip to Cleveland’s past

Nostalgia reigned on a recent day spent touring Cleveland with a group of seniors from Breckenridge Village — many of whom had spent a half century or more living in Northeast Ohio...

ankle deep in poison ivy

I was so anxious to see the bats fly into the night, that it never occurred to me that open-toed sandals were probably not the best footwear choice for a Geauga County...

Omelet in Alberta

A few blogs back I wrote about the lovely breakfast I enjoyed at the Lake Shore Bed & Breakfast & Spa in Alberta. I sat in Kathy Gette’s living room on the...

driving to Alaska

Last week in Alberta I met the Muellers and Glasscocks who were driving their Honda Goldwing motorcycles more than 5,000 miles to Alaska. It wasn’t hard to spot the folks who belonged...