Jeremy Herndon » Travel

Forget the food, I’m seeing the Thanksgiving parade!

jeremy — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:28:45 +0000

Guest post written by Sharlene Brooks

For once, I’m not going to have to worry about which pie I’m fixing for our huge family gathering for Thanksgiving Day. I always wonder about that because my family is all about the pies and I like to make sure that we have no repeats. But instead of doing the normal thing for Thanksgiving this year, I’m going to take my family to see the Thanksgiving Day parade!

It’s something that I’ve thought about doing for a few years now, but I finally decided to just go ahead and do it before the kids get a little older and have other things that they need to do during the Thanksgiving break. I was online a few months ago booking our hotel and everything for it when I ran across some information on getting a hearing aid. That’s also something that I’d been thinking about for a while, so I decided to go ahead and get fitted before the big trip.

I think that we’re going to have so much fun with the parade and I just want to make sure that we’re all ready for the trip and pack everything. It’s going to be a whirlwind of a trip, but I think that it’s going to be amazing!

Funny or Die

jeremy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:05:49 +0000

What is a Michigan Man you ask? Well here is the answer according to the website Funny or Die.

What is A Michigan Man? from Charles Woodson

Yummy

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:21:45 +0000

The say in the South that they can fry just about anything. At first look, I thought this was a batch of doughnuts. But it turns out they are fried Oreos. I don’t know why anyone thinks that Oreos need to be fried. But maybe they do taste good cooked up like that.

Almost ran out of gas today

jeremy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:31:13 +0000

I was really pushing my luck today. I just got a Shell gas credit card that gives me a 25 cent discount for every gallon of Shell gas that I buy for the first three months that I have the card. Some of the Shell gas stations are higher than the rest of the pack; some are running at a dead heat. Today I had to run some errands and I knew that I was going to need to buy gas. I also knew that I’d be driving past a Shell but not sure what their price was going to be like, compared to the rest. On my way into town I saw their price was pretty good, so I decided that I’d fill up on the way home unless I drove past a station with a better price. Well, there WERE some that were 4 cents cheaper, but I wouldn’t get that discount from the Shell gas card. So I just drove right past them. Well, let me tell you that by the time I reached that Shell on the return trip I only had one gallon of gas left in the tank! Now THAT is cutting it close!

Mailboxes Are Important

jeremy — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:08:14 +0000

There has been a big push for people to either better maintain their current house mailboxes or to replace them with one of the millions of mailboxes that are currently being offered, with the majority of them being available online. This has become an serious issue with our emergency personnel finding it harder to locate the proper address that they have been directed to arrive and assist at.

If you don’t have your house numbers big enough and/or legible enough, or properly placed, you can imagine what these folks have to go through in order get to their time essential based emergency as soon as possible. Having to deal with this issue at night time must be a real burden for the driver who is all ready pumped up, ready for anything that may come along.

I have always liked the look of the wall mounted mailboxes and the wall mount mailbox was attached to the house that I spent most of my life in and is still currently owned and lived in by my folks. So I’m going to start looking around the Internet at the wall mount mailboxes at mailboxixchange.com where the have free shipping, which is a real savings for online shoppers like myself. And the fact that they accept PayPal just makes it even better.

Gasoline Guessing Game

jeremy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:51:47 +0000

It is always a guessing game when to comes to purchasing gasoline for our vehicles. There are 3 gas stations in town that have had a price war going on for several years, so they are always offering their gas at very competitive prices which is a plus to us all. We had heard that gas would be at $4 a gallon at this point when in reality the prices are dropping, not by much mind you, but just a bit. I just paid $2.83 and if I had not bought it there and waiting for a few more miles I would have paid $3.02. That is a big difference!

Snow

jeremy — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:15:22 +0000

Last night we finally got our first snow of this year’s winter season. Only a few inches, but enough to close the schools for the day. It doesn’t take much for the schools to close down these days. I’m glad that I don’t have to deal with schools and child care issues. Old man winter keeps me busy enough.

The Horizon at 77th Gets My Vote!

jeremy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:46:28 +0000

My siblings and I have finally decided on all going in on a trip to Myrtle Beach for this year’s Christmas present to the folks. We are going to find them one of the new Myrtle Beach best hotels that is right on the beach and one that has good golf packages that we know that they will appreciate and enjoy. The Horizon Resort at 77th gets my vote. I’ve done some research on these Myrtle Beach hotel packages and I think The Horizon is top notch, while still affordable, if we all pitch in as promised.

The Horizon has indoor and outdoor pools, hut tubs, over 80 golf courses to offer. It only opened two years ago, in 2008 and is doing well for itself right in the heart of Myrtle Beach. They have a user friendly website, http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com that can fill the other siblings in on what I’m voting for.We don’t have much time left, so doing all of this online is going to be a time saver all the way around. My parents will certainly be happy with this year’s Christmas gift, I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to play a few rounds of golf in the Myrtle Beach South Carolina area.

TV Commercials

jeremy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:24:12 +0000

There are some TV Commercials that just really hit the spot. The first time I saw this one from Subaru it caught me off guard and I found myself getting some what emotional. I know, guys are not supposed to admit those type of feelings but hey I’m only human and I have my moments just like most of us do.

Anyway I just saw the commercial again while I was typing away on my laptop and I decided to see if I could find the commercial online. Just a few moments later – here it is.

Any father who has a daughter just has to think hard about this one.

Leather Weather

jeremy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:32:58 +0000

Today was the perfect day for a motorcycle ride, so I made a few calls and rounded up a few friends that have some nice looking and nice sounding Harley’s. We spent the day getting some decent wind in our faces and then stopped for some spicy Mexican Food along with a few cold beers. Couldn’t have been a better day.