The Traveled Paths

04/23/2020

We'd like to say a special Thank you for everyone who has liked and are following our page! We are thrilled and Thank you so much for your interest and support!

We are here to provide Reviews from the places we have traveled. Giving you all new places to add to your lists so hopefully you can go down our traveled path to these places as well!

Also..

**If you have a haunted house, hotel, or building and would like for us to check out. Email us!

**If you have places that interest you, and you would like to share with us so we can go and provide a review to share. Email us!

We look forward to sharing more adventures with you as soon as we can. Hope everyone is staying safe and sound during these time's! We appreciate you!

Happy Travels!
Kristian and Ashley

02/24/2020

As Promised! Here is the newest location.

If you're looking for a great historical and even family orientated activity.. You just might want to check out the West Penn Trail in Pennsylvania. The tra

12/22/2019

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If you’re looking for Santa and his elves in their workshop and you don’t want to go to the mall or a store, we have the perfect place for you! If you are anywh

12/14/2019

If you are anywhere close to Westover, West Virginia... You may just want to head on over to the LIVE Nativity at Kingdom EMC Church.

Come walk through their live Nativity that they have open to the public where you can pet Goats, Donkey's, and even Camel's! It is a walk-through tour through Bethlehem where you can read signs posted about each scene and/or even interact with the characters in their scenes.
Don't worry about holding up a line, the Roman Gaurds make sure that you dont get too far behind or you just may have to pay a town tax or two! At the end you can warm up with some hot chocolate and cookies, they even have a prayer wall if you would like to write down a prayer in need.

We wish we would of came across this one sooner, unfortunately tonight 12/14/19 from 6pm-8pm is the last showing for it. If you can't come to their final showing tonight, make sure to mark your calendar down for next year! They start their shows two weekend's before Christmas during the evening on Friday and Saturday's, it truly is a beautiful walk through Bethlehem!

Admission is free and Parking is free too.

Happy Travels!
Kristian & Ashley

12/10/2019

Looking for something that's festive and fun to do for the holiday's? Maybe make a new Tradition for your family or maybe it's something just for you. Look no further!

Come take a look into The Everett Railroad Company in Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania!
Since 1954 this Railroad company has been moving freight through the Hollidaysburg, Altoona, Claysburg, Roaring Spring, and Martinsburg communities. The Railroad Company takes part in freight transports and seasonal train rides with their steam engine trains.

Join them today on their " The Santa Express " train ride. It's a great experience for all ages during the holiday season. Experience the scenic view through Holidaysburgh, Have the Kids meet Santa and his Jolly train crew, sing Christmas Carol's, and wrap up your train ride with hot chocolate and cookies!
Hurry up and get your tickets, they go quick!

Happy Travels!
Kristian and Ashley

12/10/2019

If you’re looking for a weekend get a way or even a day trip that’s historical or considered by others to be haunted, then you may want to look into Windber, PA.

This Historic District of Windber Pennsylvania is part of the Outer Johnstown area, that has been a little over looked and almost a forgotten dot on the map. It was founded in 1897 by Charles and Edward Berwind, coal barons of Berwind Corporation. It was a company owned booming coal mine town in its day. The Berwind Coal company was huge for importing workers, offering boarding and a more promising life for the worker and their families in exchange for work, in the booming coal mines. Unfortunately for some of those workers, they would come to the town, run their tabs up with the hotel bars and other means of entertainment and then have to settle their debt collected by working it off right away for the Coal Company. Catch 22 now some would say, but it was a brilliant tactic back in the day for the coal company.

One Hotel in particular that was involved in the bartering deals with the Berwind Coal Company was the Grand Midway Hotel. We had the privilege and unique pleasure to stay at the Grand Midway Hotel where we meet its owner Blair Murphy. He gave us a wonderful insight on the Hotel and the town history. Blair Murphy was a film maker living in Los Angeles in 2001, when he saw the for-sale ad of the hotel on eBay calling his name. After winning the bid, shortly after he became the owner of the Hotel, he spent the last several years of fixing up, maintaining and even creating his own ideas for the hotel.

By doing this, Blair has kept a piece of history of the town from disappearing. Since his ownership, the hotel has been recognized for having the largest Ouija Board on its roof by the Guinness World Records on October 28, 2016. If that isn’t fascinating enough, the next year On September 11, 2017, the hotel was once again recognized for having the largest Tarot Card by the Guinness World Records. Blair is a man on a mission of bringing the little almost forgotten town of Windber back on the Map!
The hotel has different themed rooms you can stay in, we stayed in the Shakespeare room. It has a Vampire room that has coffins, a Mermaid room with all different sea creatures hanging from the ceilings and even the canopy room which has been said that some get such an eerie feeling or have some strange happenings, that the occupants change rooms before their stay is over. Each room even has its own collection of movies relating to the theme of the rooms.

We feel the beauty of the place, along with the amazing and quite odd items throughout the hotel is what makes the hotel have a haunted or eerie vibe to it. Never the less, if you’re looking for historic or something totally out of your comfort zone, then the Grand Midway Hotel has it all. Blair goes above and beyond making sure you have a great taste of history and a rememberable visit. If the hotel leaves you wanting more, he also has an old church that was to be torn down but he was able to purchase the building to save more of the town’s history. The church building now houses an awesome display of dolls from Anne Rice herself.

Well, we can’t spoil it all for you! There’s so much more to see and even learn about for yourselves that we will save for you to find out on your visit here.

Happy Travels!!
Kristian and Ashley

12/07/2019

We are a Husband and Wife team! We travel and are constantly searching for new places to visit or events to do. It's our passion, it's what we love to do and we want to share it with all of you!

We don't just stick to the " most common " travels.. We like to diversify the places we go. We find Historic Places, Family Orientated Places, Paranormal / Haunted Places, Scenic Places, Abandoned Places and a Few where you just dont know what category to put them in kind of places.

So if you're ever in that area, you can check them out too!

Happy Travels!
Kristian & Ashley