Month: April 2019

The Great Baseball Ride: Caddies Half In The Grave, Teepees, and Vintage Motels – Route 66.

Yesterday was a travel day and all Route 66. The goal for the day was to catch more sites along the Route, and eventually make it to our overnight stop in Flagstaff, AZ so as to get closer to our next MLB game; the Arizona Diamond Backs. The first site seeing stop was still in …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Route 66 and The Big Texan.

So far on The Great Baseball Ride, our trip to see the best of the baseball experience including every MLB team, we’ve seen five MLB games, Universal Studios/Harry Potter World, Ft. Lauderdale Beach, South Beach in Miami, the Louisville Slugger Factory, the Gateway Arch, Navy Pier, part of Route 66, and Uranus. With all this …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Game 5; St. Louis Cardinals and Route 66.

While the Route 66 portion of The Great Baseball Ride technically started when we arrived in Chicago two days ago, we didn’t really start driving the route until today.  Our stay at the Ohio House Motel was wonderful; affordable, clean, updated, free parking, great breakfast at Cafe Tola next door, good location, etc. We had …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Game 4; Chicago Cubs

Thus far on The Great Baseball Ride, we’ve completed the first leg our trip which included games with the Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays, and Miami Marlins. We also visited the Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum and had an ill-fated attempt at a game with the Durham Bulls (though we did get to see the …

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The Great Baseball Ride: The Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum – A Baseball Must.

We had one goal today – The Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum.  It’s a bit over a four hour drive to Louisville from our overnight spot in Pigeon Forge, TN. Of course for us it takes a bit longer.  The museum closes at five, so we had to make sure we got going quickly; we …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Pigeon Forge – Stalking Dolly Parton.

After our debacle the day before which saw us drive 15 hours out of our way from Daytona Beach, FL to Durham, NC only to not see one pitch of the Durham Bulls game we were pursuing, we weren’t super excited to hop right back on the road. Fortunately, we had some time before our …

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