Bubble Tea… Excursion: The State of Toronto’s Downtown Core Boba in 4756 4 Aug 2019 When I was a child I was subjected to a number of travelogue photo slideshows courtesy of my mother's best friend. Although mind numbing, I do credit a lot…
Fashion… Tea Excursion: Toronto, 2019 19 May 201920 May 2019 If you're at all familiar with Asian cultures, you've no doubt encountered "the culture of cute". I like to think the culture of cute originated with Hello Kitty and shoujo…
A2 Local… Tea Excursion: CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice Ann Arbor 28 Apr 2019 I'm not sure I ought to be tagging this blog entry as "Tea Excursion" since this place is a three minute car ride away from my house. The big…
Bubble Tea… Excursion: Eli Tea ~ Spring 2017 16 Apr 20176 May 2017 I haven't been anywhere fun in a while and work has been steam-rolling me almost everyday this semester. I really needed to break away and get outside the county…
A2 Local… Excursion: Eat More Tea ~ TeaHaus 26 Feb 20177 May 2017 The brainchild of Ann Arbor TeaHaus's owner, Lisa, Eat More Tea which opened today at 211 East Ann St is an adorable little cakery and gelateria. A side project of…
Chado Tea Room… Excursion: Los Angeles 20 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 Last week I had the good fortune of being plopped down at UCLA for a work-related conference. I've always said that Southern California is a nice place to visit, but…
A2 Local… Excursion: First 2016 Tea Excursion… Can you guess where? 10 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Thank you very, very much to those of you who voted in last week's Happy 4753! poll. Your input was extremely helpful and i really appreciate it. :) People said…
A2 Local… Excursion: TeaVana on the cheap 27 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 This post is unintentionally dedicated to the number 11. :) As you might be aware the day after Christmas in the West has become a Black Friday-like day for shops…
A2 Local… Excursion: Shinola & Eli Tea (and why there is simply no hope for me) 4 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 Today i managed to discover something really awesome which lead me to inexorably, you guessed it, utterly embarrass myself in my pursuit of tea. I had recently read that Shinola…
94%… Accidental Excursion: County Emmet Celtic Shop & Brodie’s Scottish Teatime 22 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 I'd like to briefly apologise for the week long Parting Gifts hiatus I had to take in preparation for my trip to Petoskey last week. As only Providence could have…
Eli Tea… Excursion: #MichiganTeaWeek ~ An Almost Retrospective 9 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 As you can well imagine, when I heard that several Detroit tea companies were putting on a Michigan Tea Week's worth of events, I got pretty excited. Unfortunately, it was…
A2 Local… Excursion: Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. 16 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 When I was first getting into tea several years ago, I had tried all the local stuff and hadn't spread my wings too far yet. I was slowly getting a…
A2 Local… Excursion: Light of Day Organics, Buddhism and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 2 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 So this Tea Excursion is actually a follow-up to an earlier blog this summer wherein I decided to randomly drive to Traverse City to investigate a bit of word-of-mouth about Light…
A2 Local… Excursion: The Land of Oz, or Tea in Northern Lower Peninsular Michigan 30 Jun 201527 Aug 2016 Last Saturday I was hurting. A mammoth storm had struck mid-Michigan and my cluster headache/nausea/fried senses were nearly incapacitating me. I had to escape. Thanks to my migraine, a long-lost…
A2 Local… Excursion: Tea Equipage for the Forty-Eighth Century 21 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 If you thought today's post was going to involve science fiction, it's actually quite the opposite. Believe it or do not, but in actuality we're currently celebrating the 48th Century of…