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With snow on the way for some of us, the opportunities for outdoor activities begin to change and we start thinking about swapping our surfboard for skis. Hiking, however, is the perfect activity to enjoy alone, with friends or the family without having to worry about running into perilous snow conditions. It’s also ideal for shaking off the winter blues, breathing in the crisp air of the countryside and se

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Planning meals during a long day of travel can be almost as nightmarish as that transcontinental flight. Most airports are packed with unhealthy snacks, fast food, or chain restaurants that make eating well during a delay almost impossible. But some airports are starting to get a clue, and bringing fantastic local cuisine into the terminal. If you're flying through any of these U.S. airports, get ready for some tasty eats! SkyHarbor Phoenix, AZ I might be biased, but as a long time Arizona resi

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If your life revolves around your next trip, here are five places to live that make it easy to travel far and wide.

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Sometimes, you just don't have the time, ability, or interest in an extended hike up the side of a forbidding mountain. Here are five, totally epic cable car rides that will give you the same fantastic views.

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From the Pyrenees principality of Andorra to the European-Asian intersection of Georgia, here’s five incredible European countries that everyone forgets about.

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Next time you’re planning to take a vacation, why not invest a bit more time and make the journey part of the adventure? Ditch the airport in favor of traveling by rail and you’ll be surprised at just how much more you’ll see. Here are five train routes in the U.S. you just can’t ignore. Pacific Surfliner If you don’t relish overnighting on the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, how about boarding the 8½ hour, 350-mile Pacific Surfliner [

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We’ve chosen five places that could make the bucket list of even the most well-traveled among us.

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There are dozens of routes that take you coast-to-coast and north-to-south, passing several fascinating places along the way. Here’s five of the best cross-country road trip routes.

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Everyone knows about the Alps, the Rockies, and the Himalayas — but have you heard of these five lesser-known mountain ranges?

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Skip another road trip this summer and check out these five unbelievable train routes through the U.S. instead.

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Top 5 Favorite Houston Rockets Game Winners

#5 Steve Novak’s game winning 3-pointer to beat the Sacramento Kings on February 13, 2008.

#4 Von Wafer’s game winning 3-pointer to beat the Boston Celtics on January 7, 2009.

#3 Shane Battier’s clutch 3-pointer to beat the Los Angeles Lakers on October 30, 2007.

#2 Luis Scola’s clutch 2 buckets to beat the San Antonio Spurs on March 22, 2009.

#1 James Harden’s game winning 3-pointer with a hand in his face to beat the Golden State Warriors on January 3, 2019.

NBA: “I Love This Game!” 🏀

#Houston Rockets of old #NBA Game Winners

Top 5 A La Mode Combos

#5 Blackberry Pie A La Mode

I rarely eat the fruit but I will never forget the first time that I tried this dessert for the very first time in 2001 at RibCrib in Tulsa, OK. This dessert is delicious! I never knew how delicious blackberry pie a la mode until I tried it at least once.

#4 Silk Chocolate Pie A La Mode

I’m a fan of chocolate mousse so this pie combo with ice cream is a wonderful combo because it is not too rich. A la mode in a pie is just as tasty as chocolate mousse cake with ice cream.

#3 Cherry Pie A La Mode

Cherries is my 3rd favorite fruit. Cherry pie is my 3rd favorite pie and it’s a wonderful a la mode combo!

#2 Apple Pie A La Mode

Granny Smith apples are my favorite apples to eat and popular apples to bake desserts with. Whether it’s apple cake, apple crisp, or even apple strudel, Granny Smith apples are really good in pie. Apple pie a la mode is a wonderful combo and have been around long before I was ever thought of.

#1 Blueberry Pie A La Mode

We used to have a restaurant in Avon where I’m from called The Pie Plate. Me and my family used to eat their for dinner and we used to see all the homemade pies for sale on display. I used to order chili and they used to give me a big bowl of chili with the cheddar cheese smothering the chili and a huge corn bread. Boy this brings back memories. Anyway, my favorite fruit is blueberries and I have had blueberry cobbler, blueberry cake, blueberry bread, etc. You want to talk about an awesome a la mode combo, you must try blueberry pie a la mode. I can’t count how many times I’ve had blueberry pie a la mode (too many to count).

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Top 5 Favorite Ice Cream Sundaes Combos

#5 Banana Split Neapolitan Ice Cream

Pretty much everyone had this sundae growing up. It’s a classic sundae after you had all of your dinner. Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry ice cream with chopped walnuts, hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top!

#4 Pineapple Sundae

Pineapple is my 5th favorite fruit. I like pineapple in my vanilla ice cream. I would enjoy it with coconut, caramel sauce, whipped cream, and a cherry on top. Coconut pineapple sundae looks delicious right about now!

#3 Hot Fudge Sundae

Another classic sundae that most everyone had growing up. The only thing I would add with the hot fudge, chopped walnuts, whip cream, and cherry with be marshmallow topping. When we used to have a Friendly’s restaurant on Broad Street in Downtown Windsor in Geissler’s Shopping Center, I used to order marshmallow topping on my sundaes to be creative. It’s like marshmallow on whipped cream and it’s so delicious!

#2 Strawberry Shortcake Sundae

Strawberry Shortcake is really delicious! I had this combo at Dairy Queen in East Hartford on the Glastonbury line where I’m from for my 32nd birthday back in 2010. This dessert is really good at family reunions after you had your dinner. I had a strawberry shortcake a la mode at my family reunion in Tampa, FL back in 1995.

#1 Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae

It was 2005, and it was my 27th birthday. Me and my mom went to Westfarms mall in Farmington. I remember the restaurant like it was yesterday because the restaurant was UNO’s Pizzeria & Grill (now P.F. Chang’s China Bistro). I had a 12″ Pizza that had 8 slices of Pizza. I had pepperoni, bacon, hamburger, and cheese on this built your own pizza. For dessert, I ordered this huge looking chocolate chip cookie along with one big scoop of ice cream and hot fudge was drizzled on the ice cream like the pic above. Talking about something good, this delicious skillet chocolate chip cookie sundae was so delicious! Skillet chocolate chip cookie sundae is tied with chocolate chip cookie dough marshmallow ice cream sundae for favorite ice cream combo sundaes.

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Top 5 American Idol Contestants Finally Voted off

#5 Nikki McKibbin finished 3rd place in the Top 10 in Season 1 of American Idol.

Nikki McKibbin was in the bottom 3 twice and in the bottom 2 three times before Nikki was finally eliminated. Nikki was in the bottom more than any AI Contestant than any Season of AI to go as far she did. Nikki McKibbin’s elimination to a lot of people felt that it was long overdue. Say what you want about Nikki she did show flashes of Janis Joplin to her voice, it just was not popular with the judges.

#4 John Stevens finished 6th place in the Top 12 in Season 3 of American Idol.

John Stevens took harsh criticism from the judges throughout the Top 12 of American Idol. Probably John’s best performances is when he sung Crazy Thing Called Love and King of The Road. John was in the bottom 3 twice including his elimination. People felt like John reminded them of Bing Crosby and Perry Como because John Stevens is a crooner like they were.

#3 Jasmine Trias finished 3rd place in the Top 12 in Season 3 of American Idol.

Jasmine Trias appeared like she would challenge in the Top 3 of AI but unfortunately no one thought it would be with sympathy votes when she made it in the Top 6. Jasmine was in the bottom 3 twice and in the bottom 2 once until her elimination. Jasmine’s best performances is Inseparable and I’ll Never Love This Way Again.

#2 Sanjaya Malakar finished 7th place in the Top 12 in Season 6 of American Idol.

Sanjaya Malakar got popular votes from girls ages 12-up because Sanjaya is the only contestant on AI where every one who left before him were all better vocally than him from 12th-8th place. You Really Got Me is Sanjaya’s best performance on AI.

#1 Scott Savol finshed 5th place in the Top 12 in Season 4 of American Idol.

Here is a problem splitting votes and using sympathy votes to vote for a contestant or contestants, your favorite or favorites get voted off. From 10th-6th place finishers were better vocally than Scott Savol. Then when America finally voted Scott off, it took Scott’s arrogance for the voters to finally realize that Scott should have never gone as far as he did in the competition. With that being said, Scott’s only good performance and absolute best was Against All Odds on AI. Scott’s other performances were all mediocre at best. Simon Cowell’s harsh and rude comments to Scott was the reason Scott even got as far as he did.

#AI eliminations that were long overdue

Top 5 American Idol Contestants That Should Have Been In The finale In Their Season

#5 Danny Gokey AI Season 8 finished 3rd place in the Top 13

If you remember that season, it had 5 Wildcards that made it a Top 13 and plus was the first season the judges save started. Danny Gokey was consistent and every week stronger vocally but Adam Lambert put Danny Gokey out of the finale to face off with Kris Allen for the title. With Danny Gokey’s emotional story of his late wife passing, Danny Gokey never forgot how the Lord brought him this far.

#4 Jennifer Hudson AI Season 3 finished 7th place in the Top 12 and she was Randy Jackson’s Wildcard selection in the Top 12.

A lot of people thought that popular votes were the reason that Jennifer Hudson didn’t go much further. Some people were upset that John Stevens is the reason for it because he was voted off the next week after Jennifer. Jennifer Hudson lost over 60 LBS while on AI that season. Jennifer proved that winning an Oscar for Dream Girls was more important than winning AI.

#3 Latoya London AI Season 3 finished in 4th place in the Top 12.

Latoya and Jennifer were both powerhouses along with Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo, and for the most part George Huff. A lot of people thought the sympathy votes the way they voted for Jasmine Trias after Simon Cowell’s rude comments toward Jasmine did Latoya in. Jasmine left the next week but at that point it didn’t matter because Jasmine had no chance against Fantasia or Diana. Latoya was consistent every week and was phenomenal with her vocal range.

#2 Chris Daughtry AI Season 5 finished in 4th place in the Top 12.

This rocker was consistent every week. Some thought Katharine McPhee should have went home that week instead of Chris. Chris had a stronger performance than Katharine that week. The popular votes did Chris Daughtry in that week. The finale of Chris and Taylor or Chris and Elliott was what a lot of people was hoping for in that Season. It didn’t happen. It was perhaps one of the worst seasons but had one of the best finales with the Top 12 coming back and performing.

#1 Tamyra Gray AI Season 1 finished 4th place in the Top 10.

What was probably most shocking was that Tamyra left before Nikki McKibbin and Justin Guarini in that season. A powerhouse singer who everyone thought should have been in the Finale to sing off against Kelly Clarkson for the Title. This song was not Tamyra’s Top 4 but Top 5 and I picked that song because it was her absolute best that season. The popular and sympathy votes of Justin (popular votes) and Nikki (sympathy votes) did Tamyra in. Nikki Mckibbin till this day is the reason why a lot of people felt that Tamyra Gray got robbed not going to the finale against Kelly Clarkson.

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Top 5 Childhood favorite desserts to have with lunch

#5 Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies

I remember when I was 10-12 when my mom would pack my lunch. Those were days when me and my classmates brought our lunch boxes to school. My mom would fix my big lunches and my step-father would give my mom a couple of oatmeal creme pies to give me and my step-father would tell my mom “Give these to Paul with his lunch.” That made me really appreciate that part of being a kid. Oatmeal creme pies is good to have with lunch.

#4 Hostess Choco Blitz snack cakes

I had Choco Blitz snack cakes for the first time when I went a field trip in the 2nd grade. Whenever we were away from school for the day, we went on field trips, and we had to have our parent or parents sign our permission slips. It was our 2nd grade class with our teacher/teachers as Chaperones and we had a lot of fun! Choco Blitz snack cakes is something that everyone had with their lunch. My mom planned this really well and bought these for the field trip.

#3 Hostess Honey Bun

The very first time that I had a honey bun I was 7. Me and my older brother, who was 11 at the time had came from a fishing trip. I’ll have to write about my fishing experience sometime on Tumblr. It was wonderful! One of the guys at Full Gospel Interdenominational Church in Downtown Manchester came to Hartford where we lived at the time and took us fishing in Moodus and then we went to his mom’s house in Manchester. Anyway, his mom gave me this big honey bun and it was delicious! I will never forget eating a honey because I got full eating half of the dessert. If you ever go camping or fishing a honey bun is a good dessert to have.

#2 Hostess Orange Cupcakes

I’ve had this dessert so many times when I was kid that it’s hard to keep track of the times that I’ve eaten this delicious dessert with my lunch. Cupcakes is something everyone had no matter what special occasion there was. Whether a regular party or a birthday party cupcakes are a great dessert.

#1 Hostess Twinkies

Have you ever had a crappy lunch when you were in elementary school? For example, you had tuna fish sandwich (nothing against it but least popular sandwich in elementary school), carrot sticks, and regular milk but had the one only good thing that was a favorite like twinkies. There would be so many people trying to trade their desserts and chips for your twinkies. I ate all of my food for the most part and never really traded with anyone. Twinkies were awesome! From what I heard they were being discontinued and now are coming back. It’s heard to keep up with what have been discontinued and what have come back.

#Elementary school days

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