Thursday, January 21, 2010

Columbus > State College, PA

January 20th – 21st

Indiana vs Penn State – Men’s Basketball – ESPN

Travelled midday on Wednesday – since I was going to the worst state in the country, my mood wasn’t the best.

Flying into State College is always a gamble. You never know if you are gonna land in one piece or not!

The aircraft is almost always a prop plane. Which makes me nervous where ever I am going.


And the overhead bin space is about 7 inches tall. I have to pretty much take everything out of my backpack in order to get in in.





It’s a very small airport – the plane pretty much taxis right up to the building.









The weather was pretty crappy. It wasn’t snowing though!

It’s been a few years since I have been here – so I drove around for a little while.

Beaver Stadium










Nittany Lion Statue on campus
Many years ago, while working a football game here, my friends Tim &  Brandy were in town for the game. We had a wild night on the town – and we stumbled around for hours looking for this damn cat! So every time I am back, I am always sure to visit him.





Tim & Brandy are old friends from when I lived in Orlando. They lived in the apartment below me. The have since lived all over the country and have 3 beautiful children.

Downtown State College is actually pretty cool; lots of places to drink, eat & interesting little shops. I have stayed at the Days Inn – which is GREAT location if you want to be in the heart of it all. I literally had drunk students passed out under my window when I stayed there.

Probably my favorite place is the Nittany Lion Inn. It’s very old and quaint. Right in the middle of campus.

This time we were at a Hilton Garden Inn… which is easily one of my favorite hotel flavors. But the location of this one sucked.

I got settled in and spent the afternoon catching up on email. So nice to have an afternoon/evening to myself!

I ordered room service and had a quiet night.

Thursday morning I hit the gym and then on to work.


Jason and I went to lunch at Chipotle and then sat at Starbucks for awhile. Always nice to have an actual lunch break.

The game went really good!

Friday morning I headed back to the airport for my next adventure!

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