Like many people, I make New Years’ resolutions. Unlike most people mine aren’t about losing weight, spending more time with family, getting organized, or any of the other most common resolutions that people end up breaking a few weeks into the new year. Instead, my resolutions are about travel related to baseball teams. Specifically, I tweet my resolutions about the baseball teams/stadiums I hope to visit during the upcoming year. So as 2016 is nearly coming to a close, I’ve taken some time to sit down and look at my success of accomplishing my New Years’ resolutions. Since 2014, I’ve written four resolutions on January 1st of each year. So…
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My night with the Columbia Fireflies – May 24, 2016
After two days in Charleston (read about it here), Katie and I headed to our last stop on our tour of Minor League Baseball stadiums in South Carolina. Before making it to Columbia to watch the Fireflies, we explored Congaree National Park, which is the place that inspired the team’s name (read about it here). Before heading to the game, we stopped at a couple of local breweries (Conquest Brewing Company and Hunter-Gatherer Brewery & Alehouse), but those will be covered in a separate post. Following parking in a field on the grounds of the former Bull Street Lunatic Asylum, we headed toward the newest Minor League Baseball stadium in…
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My night with the Charleston RiverDogs – May 23, 2016
Following our stay in Myrtle Beach (read about it here), Katie and I continued our South Carolina baseball road trip in Charleston. We spent the Sunday doing sightseeing in Mount Pleasant seeing the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, who was a key framer of the U.S. Constitution, and Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, which features the USS Yorktown (CV-10). When Katie and I initially planned the trip, we were going to spend Monday exploring the city after starting the morning by going to Fort Sumter National Monument. That partially happened, but due to my audition for Sports Jeopardy! that afternoon we only made it to Fort Sumter before we…
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My night with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans – May 21, 2016
After stops in Kodak, Tenn., (read about it here) and Asheville, N.C., (read about it here) Katie and I were supposed to attend a Greenville Drive game on a Friday night. However, the game was canceled after it rained a majority of the afternoon in the Upstate area. With hotel reservations already made for the rest of the trip, we continued on to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where we would see the Pelicans that Saturday night. After checking into our hotel (more on it later) and relaxing for a bit, Katie and I headed to the ballpark. It is easy to get to the stadium because it sits at the intersection…
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Previewing my trip through the Carolinas
Since this past December, my girlfriend and I have been planning a trip to North and South Carolina once the school year was over. She grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, so she has not visited many of the states in the Southeast. She loves to travel, and thankfully appreciates and supports my desire to visit baseball stadiums – Major League and Minor League. So when I thought about places we could visit in the spring after we both wrapped up the spring semesters, I had two suggestions: the Carolinas or the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans. As Katie has visited Louisiana before, and made a brief stop in…
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Revealing my 2016 ballpark resolutions
Over the past two years I’ve made some baseball-related travel resolutions for the new year (Read 2015 resolutions here). I’ve continued that trend into 2016, so before the semester gets away from me I wanted to sit down and recap my goals for the upcoming baseball season. Getting right to the point, my first Minor League Baseball travel resolution is to… In 2016, I resolve to see @GoTourists play on a #ThirstyThursday. #PlayBall — Steven Ericson (@geoSteven) January 1, 2016 I’ve previously made resolutions to see specific teams, but I have not made a resolution to attend on a specific day of the week or to attend a specific promotion.…
