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A good day to hang with the daughter afoot in Bloomington! Lunch at Uptown Cafe - Yum! Poking around in the kitchen goods shop. New shoes and socks at JL Waters! With excellent help from Emily. Amazing ice creams at Hartzell's. And a clever geocache at the Andrew...
Just as we were ready to commence preparations for bed we decided to go out and look at the clouds one more time. To our surprise the eclipsed moon was peeking through the clouds. We watched the orb of night emerging from Earth's shadow for about three minutes before...
Site 52 here at Indiana Dunes State Park was going to be great for watching tonight's eclipse. We set up our chairs with a beautiful view of the Harvest Moon in a clear sky at about 7:20PM Central. In about 20 minutes the clouds started moving in. Two hours later...
Since shortly after leaving Dixon we've been the southern part of the Chicago area along the Historic Lincoln, better known these days as US-30 but in Joliet the US-30 bridge over the Des Plaines River is closed. We detoured onto IL-54 and discovered we were on...
Boyhood HomeVideo Tour Dixon IL was the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan, known as Dutch. Although his family only lived in the house on Hennepin Avenue for three years, it figured prominently in his childhood memories. He and his brother Neil, known in childhood...
Home Tour Video Biography Video Starting in Winona MN we traveled south on US-61 with the sunlight sparkling on the waters of the Mississippi River to our left and clouds shrouding the tops of some of the bluffs on our right. We crossed the mighty river at...
Prairie Island Campground in Winona MN sounded like a nice stopping place on our trek along the Mississippi shore according to the AllStays app. A phone call confirmed that they had a spot for us. But when we arrived we discovered that half this city park campground...
Today's travels took us along the eastern shore of Lake Pepin, the largest naturally occurring lake along the course of the Mississippi River and into the town of Pepin, Wisconsin to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum which gave a look at what life was like in Pepin when...
After breakfast today we were thwarted in our efforts to make a second cuppa. The stove wouldn't light. Sure enough, we're out of propane! A Google search and a phone call later and we added Lakes Gas Company in Hager City WI as an interim destination to our day's...
After securing Site 23 at Lake Byllesby Park outside of Cannon Falls MN this afternoon we checked some apps to see if there was anything intriguing we'd like to check out in the area. Sure enough, the History Here app directed us to the National Bank Bank in...
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Thanks to the organizational skills of Mandy & Kgreat weekend of endrick, the amazing support of their team, and the sponsorship of nüCamp RV we enjoyed a great weekend of camaraderie and fun at the Northeast Rally. Gathering with fellow teardrop aficionados is always an enriching experience and this gathering in the Adirondacks was no exception.
Over a long weekend we sampled some of the myriad things to do in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, unique among national parks for it’s environmental reclamation, historic preservation, and recreational opportunities adjacent to the populous cities of Cleveland and Akron in northeastern Ohio. Can’t wait to return and explore more.
Our journey from Portsmouth, England to our home in Ohio might have been accomplished in about sixteen hours but my avoiding air travel we were able to enjoy a fifteen day journey home via train, ship, Uber, train, as well as our own feet and finally our personal vehicle.