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  • The URL can't handle some types of punctuation. If typing in the bar manually, the apostrophe should be replaced by the ‘g’ it represents, i.e., instead of Day Trippin' it will be Day Tripping.

Nicole and Chi have two web-logs because they feel that the ‘special’ posts must be kept separate from the mundane.

  • The blog Day Trippin’ will have posts about the one-off stops they value as worth remembering. All will be in-and-nearby the State of Connecticut. Locations showcased here would be nice to (re)visit on a Sunday afternoon jaunt.

  • The blog Adventures provides a place to keep pictures and share stories from a meried array of vacations and celebrations. Most will have both Nicole and Chi represented as authors, but archival posts or business trip destinations might be told from one or the other’s perspective.

There are [or will be when recreated] a thousand or more posts between the two blogs above, and it will be a long process to recreate ten-years worth of the couples online presence.

As there will be too many posts to scroll through, this page will act as an ‘index’ page; helpful in finding subjects of interest. Each blog has Category descriptions followed by their button-links, and then the more specific named tagged-hyperlinks following.

Note: the underlined blog name may be switched by clicking it. The one chosen determines the specific categories described below it, and those links are specific to that blog.

The category-links directly below are for the blog, Day Trippin.’ When one is chosen, it will open the page with only that subject shown.

  • 20171022; 20181014; 20240725; 20240801; 20200725; 20200726; Back East Brewing Company; Alvarium Beer Company; Bad Dog Brewing Company; Amusement; Beach; Bethlehem Vineyards; Brignole Vineyards; Bicycle; Brewery; Brewery Legitimus; Chamard Vineyards; Chris and Laura; Don Pedro; Connecticut State Forest ; Connecticut Valley Winery; Eagles Watching Over You; Disc Golf; Fort; Fort Griswold; Fort Trumbull; Greenway; Hammonasset; Hawk Ridge Winery; Height; Hiking; Hopkins Vineyard; Housatonic River; Jerram Winery; JumboC; Land of Nod Winery; Letterbox; Mallory Preserve; Maugle Sierra; Maugle Sierra Vineyards; Nepaug; Olympic Games; Passport; Rocky Neck; The Durham Family; The Whites; Tox Brewing Company; Vineyard; Walker Road Vineyards; Waterfall; White Silo Winery; Wickham Park; Willibrew; Winery.

The category-links directly below are for the blog, Adventures. When one is chosen, it will open the page with only that subject shown.

  • ACT; Alumni; Amateur Challenge Tournament; Amtrak; Ancestor; Autumn; Baltimore; Beach; Beaver Pond; Big E; BMTA Commuter Rail; Boat; Boston; Boston College; Brewery; Bronx; Bruins; BYU; Camping; Canada; Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway; Castle Island; Cemetery; Champion; Chicago; Chinatown; Colum Cille; Connecticut General Assembly; Copp's Hill Burying Ground; Covered Bridge; Crawford Notch; Daniel A. Steen Sr.; Date Night; Dicey Riley; Dining; Disc Golf; DNC; Dohboy; Don Pedro; Donald Trump; Dough Boy; Dropkick Murphys; Dukes; East Carolina; Easter; Echo Lake; Eclipse; Flapjacks Pancake House; Flume Gorge; Football; Glastonbury; Gordis Fish and Steak House; Half Door; Golf; Hall of Fame; Harpoon; Hartford; Hartford Funny Bone Comedy Club; Hobo Railroad; Holiday; Holyoke; Hurricane; I.A.H.S.; InnSeason Resorts; Irish; Jimmy Dore; Jose; JumboC; K.o.C.; Kancamagus Highway; L.C.I.A.C.; Leafing; Lodge at Lincoln Center; Lodge at Lincoln Station; Long Trail Brewery; Manchester; Memphis; Mount Washington Cog Railway; Mystic; Navy; New England; New Hampshire; New York Comedy Club; Niagara Falls; Nordic Village Resort; North Shore Boston; Northampton; Norwalk; NPS; NYC; OConnors Public House; Old South Sutton Cemetery; OneBite; Parade; Patriot; Patriots; Philadelphia; Pitt; Pizza; Powder Hollow; Profile Lake; Purdue; Roast Beef; Rutland; Sabbaday Falls; Saint Patrick's Day; Savannah; Scottish; Shamrock Splash; SMU; Stamford; Temple; The Basin; The Brick Store; The Donut Guy; The Fool; The Rectory School; The Whites; The Wilbur; The Witch; Tournament; Tree House; UCONN; Vermont; VIP; Viper; Wagner; Waterfall; Wheaton College; Wolf Pac; Zoo.

And finally, the spreadsheet below allows for another way to filter search criteria. There would be no point to this if posts were not ‘easy’ to find.

The tables are sortable by the headers at the top within. The four available tabs at the bottom which may be selected are currently:

  • Blogs = The entire list of posts, or potential reposts, with a location and a date.

  • List of Tags = These tags are more specific than the category and will group repeated activities. The list will eventually include hyperlinks which open it’s page.

  • Breweries = These are breweries in Connecticut specifically, and the list will indicate whether they have been visited, if they participate in a ‘passport’ program, and any miscellaneous notes.

  • Vineyards = This listing will follow similar criteria to that used on the breweries tab.

  • The Excel document embedded here is a working spreadsheet and what is displayed changes in real time if it is being used by the author. It had been enabled as ‘read-only’ but, on the users end, the headers may be used to sort the columns to a desired subject or back to the default.