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Jul 27, 2014 | 0 Comments
After a fun evening in the City of Presidents and a delightful visit with our campground neighbors, we are eastbound on I-90. We traveled this stretch in '73 on our honeymoon and in '08 on our three month ramble. Both times we were westbound and both times we stayed...
Jul 26, 2014 | 1 Comment
See Park Video Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is out in the middle of the prairie many miles from any sizable city, in fact the closest town is Harrison, Nebraska 25 miles to the north, a community of less than three hundred people. What was once the Agate...
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 Comments
150th Anniv Ft Laramie Treaty Video See Park Video Another opportunity at Fort Laramie is to talk with a costumed interpreter at a covered wagon. We talked with her about the Mormon Migration. Our family connection is to a woman named Charity who left Karen's...
Jul 24, 2014 | 2 Comments
Because it's listed in National Geographic Guide to State Parks in the United States, we decided to visit Lake Guernsey State Park near Guernsey, Wyoming. At registration we were advised that the water levels in the lake, which is a reservoir, were at very low levels...
Jul 26, 2014 | 0 Comments
Thanks to Jana we've finally, on our third visit to the Black Hills, visited downtown Rapid City, City of Presidents! It was a delightful evening. She met us at the KOA where we got to show her our T@B then on to a delicious meal at Tally's Silver Spoon, a trip to the...
Jul 26, 2014 | 0 Comments
See Park Video This morning we visited Chimney Rock. It was an iconic landmark on the Overland Trails. It's amazing to gaze on a bit of geology was was a much anticipated site for folks traveling west a hundred and fifty years ago!
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 Comments
At Fort Laramie we were treated to an interpretive talk about the Mountain Howitzer and it's role, actually it's uselessness in the wide open spaces of Wyoming. But the fascinating thing is that it is the little baby brother of the Twelve Pound Napoleons that were...
Jul 26, 2014 | 0 Comments
We took delivery of our little T@B one year ago today! In our little gypsy wagon we have logged many miles and many nights. It's given us the opportunity to explore new places and to return to familiar ones, to visit family and friends, and to make new friends....
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 Comments
See Park Video Rising 4659 feet above sea level, Scotts Bluff was a landmark on the Overland Trail, this huge rock rising out of the prairie. We stopped at the Scotts Bluff National Monument near Gering, Nebraska. At the Visitor Center we were the only visitors! When...
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 Comments
Listened last night to the sounds of the nearby train switching yard. This morning saw a line of railroad coal cars as far as the eye can see. And everywhere we look it seems the scenery goes on as far as the eye can see.
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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From London we made our way to Tunbridge Wells in Kent to dance to the strains of The Jive Aces and later enjoyed the opportunity to hobnob with the band members at The Ship and Castle in Portsmouth. Two fabulous experiences!
Our last day in London this trip we ventured underground on the Hidden London Charing Cross: Access All Areas Tour for a peek into the workings of The Underground a bit of its history and the uses of the Jubilee Line Charing Cross Station that no longer serves passengers but still has usefulness including as a filming location for movies including Skyfall and Paddington.
A half-day bus tour from London to Stonehenge gave us enough of an opportunity to gaze in awe at this ancient sacred monument, learn a little more about its history and construction and make us want to return for perhaps a more intimate experience.
