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Tuesday Travelogue February 3rd

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Real Estate Agent with John L Scott Market Center 700512026

Welcome to the ongoing weekly series called Tuesday Travelogue. We are in our thirty-first week! Each week, some ActiveRain bloggers are spotlighted to take us somewhere we may not have been on some kind of virtual travel (and it doesn't cost a dime!). Here is the purpose:

 

" to enjoy the ride"

"take a trip without even leaving the farm"

"expand your horizons"

"see through someone else's eyes"

 and hopefully much more!

 

(Be sure and click on the links in blue.)

This week, we've moved onto "I" in the travels across America. The "I's" have it! It is now time to shine the Travelogue Light on Illinois!

I was completely intrigued with the name Mt. "Trashmore" in Evanston Illinois! Such a funny name, that I had to check it out. Thank you, Noah Seidenberg, as this took me back to my younger snow-days in Boston, NY (outside of Buffalo, where we would spend all day tobogganing--great, but exhausting exercise!)

 

 This one is a sad good-bye to a sweet ole building that will be gone soon. Hubbard Woods Gazebo. Margaret Goss takes us to Winnetka District.

Say Goodbye to the Hubbard Woods Gazebo

 

 Robie House, a museum in Chicago, IL is spotlighted by Karen Winters. She talks about the reknown (and my favorite) architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Go on the tour!

Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House

I went a different direction with this one, because it still felt like a localism post, but of a completely different kind. Alan May, in Evanston and Northshore of Chicago, IL always takes us on an unusual path...this time with a stroke--a feel-good story from 2013. 

Please don't forget to comment on these blogposts and I hope that you enjoyed all of these virtual travels. Feel free to join our group:

Travelers in the Rain!

 

  

                                                                         

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Comments (18)

Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Gayle,

Like you I enjoyed Noah's video, as well as the others.  A

Feb 03, 2015 02:29 AM
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

Thanks so much Gayle.

Feb 03, 2015 02:50 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Mt. Trashmore is just as glorious as it sounds.... well, maybe a bit nicer than that.  Thank you for the feature, Gayle.  It's so nice to give my daughter a little extra PR...

Feb 03, 2015 02:56 AM
Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807
HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ
Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

Gayle - Thanks for the tour of Illinois. I really think they could have come up with a better name than Mt. Trashmore, but I guess it is somewhat appropriate.

Feb 03, 2015 03:40 AM
John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque Homes Realty - Albuquerque, NM
Honesty, Integrity, Results, Experienced. HIRE Me!

Looks like a ton of fun Noah Seidenberg

Feb 03, 2015 04:05 AM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

All excellent stories you found in Illinois Gayle, and to build a hill over trash in Evanston, amazing.

Feb 03, 2015 05:26 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Thanks so much for this outstanding series.

Have a wonderful week.

Feb 03, 2015 05:40 AM
Yolanda Cordova-Gilbert
Richmond, TX

Gayle,

 I loved Noah's video as well, it made feel cold. I hope you are having a great day!

Feb 03, 2015 06:10 AM
Joanna Cohlan
Fresh Eyes For Your Home - Chappaqua, NY
Designing, Decorating & Staging Westchester Homes

What a great series this is Gayle! I am learning so much and enjoying my travels with you.  And I thought I knew Chicago

Feb 03, 2015 06:29 AM
Norma Toering Broker for Palos Verdes and Beach Cities
Charlemagne International Properties - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Palos Verdes Luxury Homes in L.A.

Sledding on a snow day was always a fun way to enjoy an unexpected break from school during my years in cold country.  No such thing as a "snow day" in L.A.  :)

Feb 03, 2015 06:33 AM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

A~it really took me back....

Noah Seidenberg when I saw this one it was a no-brainer to make it first!! I had a harder time finding localism posts other than yours...keep up the good work! (And those very fun days taking sleds and such down the giant cornfield behind our house was such an amazing childhood memory! You had to be really careful at the top, as the trees were very close together and it was a narrow passage til you hit the cornfield--many a mini disaster awaited those who weren't good at steering!)

Alan May as my granny used to say, be "quietly proud"....not many of us have made it into People magazine!

Troy, I KNOW!!! But what the hey...makes you wanna see more.

QMan, I agree!

 

Feb 03, 2015 06:39 AM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Gary Woltal thank you, as always for stopping by and supporting the "Locals"!

Roy, my friend, you are most welcome. 

Yolanda, hope it was a "good" cold!

Joanna Cohlan--to be able to show you a different type of Chicago is kinda fun! I'm sure YOU could do some great localism posts on the arts there--I had a hard time finding any localism posts from realtors. It was all about subdivisions!

 

Feb 03, 2015 06:45 AM
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

On that note, Alan May and I are going to ride down Mt Trashmore together on a large sled as it is snowing more now.

Feb 03, 2015 06:45 AM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Norma Toering I know those years in "cold country" only too well! Which places were yours? Mine was outside Buffalo, then later Philly (twice) and Pittsburgh where I graduated from high school. 

Feb 03, 2015 07:18 AM
Norma Toering Broker for Palos Verdes and Beach Cities
Charlemagne International Properties - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Palos Verdes Luxury Homes in L.A.

Chicago and Cape Elizabeth, Maine.  Brrrr.    I've enjoyed my 25+ years in Southern California after spending a few decades in cold country!

Feb 03, 2015 08:48 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Gayle - I always enjoy your travelogue posts and this one is especially timely, since we're off to Chicago on Thursday to teach the grandkids some new bad habits and words.

Feb 03, 2015 09:24 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Noah, I'm in.

Feb 03, 2015 12:01 PM
Rene Fabre
ARFCO Media - Renton, WA
Practicing Philosophical Eclectic of the Arts

Great shares and pics! Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Realtor (503)755-2905 !!! Love this series and love where it takes me! 

 

Feb 03, 2015 02:52 PM