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Where in the heck are you?
When guests come to town there’s always the question of what do we do that’s truly and unique Cincy, something that we have here that they don’t have in their neck of the woods.
First off there’s goetta for breakfast. Goetta is German ‘cause Cincy is oh so German. It’s a combo of pork and oatmeal and spices and sound gross and everyone loves it. My husband used to make it and with a name like Kruetzkamp it was part of his genetic makeup.
Cincy also has great barbecue. I know, I know, everyone has barbecue but there’s this place called Montgomery Inn that has fantabulous BBQ so we always take guests there for dinner.
Cincy also has Skyline Chili not to be confused with Texas chili. This is spaghetti topped with chili sauce (special secret chili sauce to be sure) and topped with shredded cheese. This is affectionately called a three-way and an acquired taste. It is a Cincy tradition to take your offspring to Skyline for his or her first three-way and get a pic of the occasion for the family album.
We also have the Cincy Reds for baseball so we catch a baseball game at the Great American Ballpark that is really just that...a bit of new and a taste of the old. And we have King’s Island an amusement park that is a ton of fun and there’s a Purple People Bridge that connects downtown Cincy to Northern Kentucky and only for pedestrians.
Cincy and Northern Kentucky are like a city in itself. Heck the Cincinnati Airport is in Northern Kentucky...try explaining that to people. They get off the plane and it says Kentucky and here they thought they were flying into Cincinnati!
We also have a place called OTR...Over the Rhine that is now the hip trendy place of micro breweries, eateries, art galleries, and a city market called Findlay Market that’s been around for about a hundred and fifty years or so.
And we have a terrific symphony and playhouse in the park and we have the Cincinnati Bengals that are always fun to watch...usually. ☺
To give guests a taste of all this I take them on a Segway tour of the downtown area of city where you buzz around on your Segway and you can see all that I talked about here in about ninety minutes. I looooove riding a Segway! It is so much fun!
Next week I’ll take you on a tour of Mackinac Island complete with map. You can see where Evie Bloomfield has landed after she leaves Chicago and winds up on the island of no cars, no malls, not much wifi, cell service and lots of bikes, horses and fudge.
So here’s the thing, if I came to your neck of the woods where would you take me? Where would we go so that I got a true appreciation for where you live, the heritage of your city?
I’ll give away three Geared for the Grave totes from the answers.
Love where you land!
Have a good day.
Hugs, Duffy
Geared for the Grave
December 2, 2014 release
Berkley Prime Crime
First book in Cycle Path Mystery series
First off there’s goetta for breakfast. Goetta is German ‘cause Cincy is oh so German. It’s a combo of pork and oatmeal and spices and sound gross and everyone loves it. My husband used to make it and with a name like Kruetzkamp it was part of his genetic makeup.
Cincy also has great barbecue. I know, I know, everyone has barbecue but there’s this place called Montgomery Inn that has fantabulous BBQ so we always take guests there for dinner.
Cincy also has Skyline Chili not to be confused with Texas chili. This is spaghetti topped with chili sauce (special secret chili sauce to be sure) and topped with shredded cheese. This is affectionately called a three-way and an acquired taste. It is a Cincy tradition to take your offspring to Skyline for his or her first three-way and get a pic of the occasion for the family album.
We also have the Cincy Reds for baseball so we catch a baseball game at the Great American Ballpark that is really just that...a bit of new and a taste of the old. And we have King’s Island an amusement park that is a ton of fun and there’s a Purple People Bridge that connects downtown Cincy to Northern Kentucky and only for pedestrians.
Cincy and Northern Kentucky are like a city in itself. Heck the Cincinnati Airport is in Northern Kentucky...try explaining that to people. They get off the plane and it says Kentucky and here they thought they were flying into Cincinnati!
We also have a place called OTR...Over the Rhine that is now the hip trendy place of micro breweries, eateries, art galleries, and a city market called Findlay Market that’s been around for about a hundred and fifty years or so.
And we have a terrific symphony and playhouse in the park and we have the Cincinnati Bengals that are always fun to watch...usually. ☺
To give guests a taste of all this I take them on a Segway tour of the downtown area of city where you buzz around on your Segway and you can see all that I talked about here in about ninety minutes. I looooove riding a Segway! It is so much fun!
Next week I’ll take you on a tour of Mackinac Island complete with map. You can see where Evie Bloomfield has landed after she leaves Chicago and winds up on the island of no cars, no malls, not much wifi, cell service and lots of bikes, horses and fudge.
So here’s the thing, if I came to your neck of the woods where would you take me? Where would we go so that I got a true appreciation for where you live, the heritage of your city?
I’ll give away three Geared for the Grave totes from the answers.
Love where you land!
Have a good day.
Hugs, Duffy
Geared for the Grave
December 2, 2014 release
Berkley Prime Crime
First book in Cycle Path Mystery series
On the Places You’ll Go.
I love this book, given it as presents to so many grads with their whole life in front of them. And of course it is totally true. The places we wind up are truly amazing!
In Braking for Bodies, Evie Bloomfield never thought she’d wind up on Mackinac Island chasing a killer...who wound up chasing her! In my Consignment Shop series Reagan Summerside never thought she’d fall for the very man who represented her ex in a rotten divorce settlement.
And I never thought I’d drive through Tuscany. Just me and my daughter in a little stick-shift Fiat and a Garman GPS. Thank heavens for the Garman or we’d still be driving in Tuscany! Actually, thank heavens for my daughter as I can’t read a map…even a Garman…worth beans!
I never dreamed I’d have a garden with so many lovely flowers. My grandfather could grow anything anywhere. He was from Italy and had ten green thumbs! I love flowers and whereas I’m not nearly as good a gardener as Grandpa Angelo I feel a part of him every time I plant or trim or water.
And a few things I got into I never thought I’d get out of. Like the time I got lost in wilds of Kentucky in the middle of the night with a dead iPhone that wouldn’t take a charge. Then there was the time my daughters and I got chased by two huge gators in Alligator Alley in Florida. You think a sixty-year-old woman is slow? Ha! I can run like the wind!
Then there was our adventure to Canyonlands in Arizona. Everything is huge and steep there. My daughters and I DROVE a road with hairpin turns, 1000 foot drops with no guardrails, wide enough for one car only and dirt!!!!! Oh the things my kids get me into.
So the question is...what crazy things have gotten you into? What wild places have you survived or nearly didn’t? Where have you wound up that you never thought you would?
In Braking for Bodies, Evie Bloomfield never thought she’d wind up on Mackinac Island chasing a killer...who wound up chasing her! In my Consignment Shop series Reagan Summerside never thought she’d fall for the very man who represented her ex in a rotten divorce settlement.
And I never thought I’d drive through Tuscany. Just me and my daughter in a little stick-shift Fiat and a Garman GPS. Thank heavens for the Garman or we’d still be driving in Tuscany! Actually, thank heavens for my daughter as I can’t read a map…even a Garman…worth beans!
I never dreamed I’d have a garden with so many lovely flowers. My grandfather could grow anything anywhere. He was from Italy and had ten green thumbs! I love flowers and whereas I’m not nearly as good a gardener as Grandpa Angelo I feel a part of him every time I plant or trim or water.
And a few things I got into I never thought I’d get out of. Like the time I got lost in wilds of Kentucky in the middle of the night with a dead iPhone that wouldn’t take a charge. Then there was the time my daughters and I got chased by two huge gators in Alligator Alley in Florida. You think a sixty-year-old woman is slow? Ha! I can run like the wind!
Then there was our adventure to Canyonlands in Arizona. Everything is huge and steep there. My daughters and I DROVE a road with hairpin turns, 1000 foot drops with no guardrails, wide enough for one car only and dirt!!!!! Oh the things my kids get me into.
So the question is...what crazy things have gotten you into? What wild places have you survived or nearly didn’t? Where have you wound up that you never thought you would?
Bouncing the Bucket List!
Just got back from the land of tulips and windmills. Well...not exactly just got back but landed Saturday an it took till now to feel among the living with recovering from an eye infection, stomach bug, bad cold and no tulips.
Doing the bucket list thing isn’t always a bowl of cherries!
Adventures are just that and not all goes to plan. But there was the art I’d wanted to see all my life (Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Rembrandt, Vermeer). And Amsterdam was amazing even in rain and cold...they were ice skating on the canals two weeks ago so the tulips stay said no-way are we coming out in this!
So my question today is, is having a bucket list worth it? Is it just pie in the sky or should you roll the dice and give it a try?
Even with all the mishaps IMHO adventures are always worth it. I travel a lot with my two daughters and their motto is... If something doesn’t go wrong we’re not trying hard enough.
I like this philosophy a lot. Maybe it’s part of my bucket list. To just keep plugging away and trying new things.
So that brings me back to you. Do you have a bucket list? It doesn’t have to be traveling all over the planet and getting sick but maybe trying to really like sushi (I did and still think holding it over a flame would do it a world of good). Or maybe learning how to play Mahjong or go to the opera or give Josh Groan one more try.
So what’s on your bucket list and are you adding to it?
Doing the bucket list thing isn’t always a bowl of cherries!
Adventures are just that and not all goes to plan. But there was the art I’d wanted to see all my life (Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Rembrandt, Vermeer). And Amsterdam was amazing even in rain and cold...they were ice skating on the canals two weeks ago so the tulips stay said no-way are we coming out in this!
So my question today is, is having a bucket list worth it? Is it just pie in the sky or should you roll the dice and give it a try?
Even with all the mishaps IMHO adventures are always worth it. I travel a lot with my two daughters and their motto is... If something doesn’t go wrong we’re not trying hard enough.
I like this philosophy a lot. Maybe it’s part of my bucket list. To just keep plugging away and trying new things.
So that brings me back to you. Do you have a bucket list? It doesn’t have to be traveling all over the planet and getting sick but maybe trying to really like sushi (I did and still think holding it over a flame would do it a world of good). Or maybe learning how to play Mahjong or go to the opera or give Josh Groan one more try.
So what’s on your bucket list and are you adding to it?
Bouncing the Bucket List!
Just got back from the land of tulips and windmills. Well...not exactly just got back but landed Saturday an it took till now to feel among the living with recovering from an eye infection, stomach bug, bad cold and no tulips.
Doing the bucket list thing isn’t always a bowl of cherries!
Adventures are just that and not all goes to plan. But there was the art I’d wanted to see all my life (Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Rembrandt, Vermeer). And Amsterdam was amazing even in rain and cold...they were ice skating on the canals two weeks ago so the tulips stay said no-way are we coming out in this!
So my question today is, is having a bucket list worth it? Is it just pie in the sky or should you roll the dice and give it a try?
Even with all the mishaps IMHO adventures are always worth it. I travel a lot with my two daughters and their motto is... If something doesn’t go wrong we’re not trying hard enough.
I like this philosophy a lot. Maybe it’s part of my bucket list. To just keep plugging away and trying new things.
So that brings me back to you. Do you have a bucket list? It doesn’t have to be traveling all over the planet and getting sick but maybe trying to really like sushi (I did and still think holding it over a flame would do it a world of good). Or maybe learning how to play Mahjong or go to the opera or give Josh Groan one more try.
So what’s on your bucket list and are you adding to it?
Doing the bucket list thing isn’t always a bowl of cherries!
Adventures are just that and not all goes to plan. But there was the art I’d wanted to see all my life (Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Rembrandt, Vermeer). And Amsterdam was amazing even in rain and cold...they were ice skating on the canals two weeks ago so the tulips stay said no-way are we coming out in this!
So my question today is, is having a bucket list worth it? Is it just pie in the sky or should you roll the dice and give it a try?
Even with all the mishaps IMHO adventures are always worth it. I travel a lot with my two daughters and their motto is... If something doesn’t go wrong we’re not trying hard enough.
I like this philosophy a lot. Maybe it’s part of my bucket list. To just keep plugging away and trying new things.
So that brings me back to you. Do you have a bucket list? It doesn’t have to be traveling all over the planet and getting sick but maybe trying to really like sushi (I did and still think holding it over a flame would do it a world of good). Or maybe learning how to play Mahjong or go to the opera or give Josh Groan one more try.
So what’s on your bucket list and are you adding to it?
New Cozy Series
Murder, Mayhem and 4 of a Kind is the first book in my new cozy series, High Cotton Mysteries.
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