Travel-Eat-Play: Some travel is better than none...right?

Since moving back to Chicago from my beloved London, I haven't had a chance to travel as much as I would like. It's just so darn hard to get out of the US! A flight from the Midwest to the East coast is around 2.5 hrs and a flight from the Midwest to the West coast is around 3.5 hrs. If I want to go out of the country, unless I am flying to Canada or Mexico - it takes at least 8/9 hours. There goes my weekend trips to other places!

I was asked to go on this project in Ohio a month ago, so I have been flying to Columbus, Ohio and staying in a small town of Dublin, Ohio. Not knowing much about small towns, Dublin is actualy quite a pretty town! There is a cute high street area, some shopping, a few malls around, but what is really gorgeous is the river that runs through it. It's one of those lush tree lined, water sluicing over boulders, people in small boats, fishing - kind of rivers. The building that my client is at actually has an enclosed walkway and confernce rooms over the forest and river.

I split my weeks between Chicago and Dublin, whenever I am in Dublin, we typically always go out to eat. So far I've eaten at:
- countless Indian buffets (mostly vegetarian) as my coworkers are Indian
- BD Mongolian Grill
- Boston Market
- Blue Ginger Asian Fusion
- Windchimes Chinese restaurant
- more Indian buffets
- Max & Ermas
- Jeni's Ice Cream

Here are some pictures of Dublin: