We always hit the Coffee Cup in Nelsonville on the way out of Athens, Ohio, and it never disappoints.

Thanks to Monopoly Junior, my kids understand the finer points of demanding rent even when the renter is flat broke. I have learned again what it feels like to be flat broke.

Why do we always pick the cold and rainy summer days to go to carnivals?

The girl took about one hour over three days to learn to ride her bike. I lost about 30 pounds in sweat chasing her. And now, they say, she’ll never forget.

E and I at the planetarium in the Great Lakes Nature & Science Center.

The boy and his friend went from the joust to their first DJ request: Europe’s “The Final Countdown.” I’m gonna have to have a talk with that boy…

Apparently Kowalski was so unimpressed with Dodge’s ability to handle a head-on collision, he bought a Ford dealership.

Shouldn’t rain actually be the perfect weather for swimming?

I have been fishing exactly three times in my life and this is one of them. But the boy’s friend invited us to a private hunt club on a beautiful spring day, so how could we say no?

Well, the directions to the grave in West Branch State Park in Ohio were not bad. We took the asphalt trail to the left, where Porter Road takes a sharp right, and we found the first trail on the right, but we did not find the stones marking the grave just into the woods about 200 yards down the trail. All we found was this possible marker. It was a great hiking and biking area, though!