Perfect planning...

doesn't happen. It seems like I have been looking at dates and schedules since they came out. This year's trip is complicated by Randy's travel schedule and my work schedule. Randy is traveling more this summer than last and I am trying to hang on to vacation days and use them sparingly. The dogs also complicate our travel plans because we have a dog sitter (thanks Jill!) who stays at our house when we are gone. So if getting our schedules together isn't hard enough, we have to schedule Jill too.



Oh, and the fact that we have been watching three basketball games a night and monitoring our brackets like a billion dollars depended on it! (BTW-we didn't win the billion, but as of now I am in the lead on our work pool.)

We managed to decide pretty easily that Cleveland would be our Opening Day game. Being from Nick Swisher's home town had a little something to do with that.

http://goodguysports.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/nick-swisher-much-more-than-just-a-yankees-star/

After that I tried scheduling trips that seemed to go together- Baltimore/New York, Philly/Baltimore, New York/Boston...it just wasn't working with the days we have available. Baseballroadtrip.com is a huge help planning multiple games in one trip. http://www.baseball-roadtrip.com/index.php#

We have also relied heavily on The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip by Josh Pahigian and Kevin O'Connell. They have practice advice about every stadium and great advice on choosing seats.

So we have come up with Cleveland, Opening Day. As of now we have nothing scheduled in May. Thinking about Kansas City or Seattle. June 28 we go to Philadelphia to see the Phillies and Randy's beloved Braves.

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=phi

July we head out to Toronto. We've decided to stay at the Renaissance Hotel, since it might be the only time we get to spend the night in a MLB stadium. We booked a stadium view room but aren't sure what the regulations are on these rooms. Someone apparently decided to get frisky in the window back in the 90s. I will let you know what is going on with the rooms after we go! We will be there for a Friday night game and a Saturday game.

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/yyzbr-renaissance-toronto-downtown-hotel/


After we leave Toronto (don't forget your passport) we go to Detroit. I've attended some awesome crew meets in Detroit, so I'm looking forward to some time to explo