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Bella Vista

Bella Vista

For three nights we've enjoyed Mike and Sharon's driveway as our campsite complete with power hookup, indoor seating, great conversation, freshly brewed coffee, breakfast each morning, and guided tours of the area. The weather has been dicey. The first evening here we...

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Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs

After our foray into the art world Sharon and Mike took us on a tour of Eureka Springs, a wonderful historic town in the heart of the Ozarks. We shot photos of beautiful Victorian houses from the car windows, stopped to check out the Spring Street Grotto, had a...

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Coffee in Coffeyville

Coffee in Coffeyville

 With this morning's very wet start and having to deal with some errant glycol in the closet, we didn't get a second cuppa this morning so as we headed in search of a coffee shop. Yelp! helped us find Utopia in Coffeyville for a bit of yummy before we went in search...

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Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!

As we left the Dallas Fort Worth area yesterday we headed north into Oklahoma through hilly country into the Oklahoma City metro area. We paused for the night at Pioneer RV Park Site 26 near Guthrie, north of OKC. We've driven through hills and plains, seen wind...

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Kristi’s Piano Bar

Kristi’s Piano Bar

In a side room of Corona Restaurant in Rogers,  Arkansas on certain Friday nights Kristi hosts a Piano Bar. It's a gathering of friends, an opportunity to enjoy music, food, and drink, and to participate. She invited a number of the audience up on stage to sing and...

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Crystal Bridges

Crystal Bridges

Today we had the pleasure of visiting Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, an unexpected treat in Bentonville, Arkansas. With Sharon and Mike we wandered through galleries marveling at the wonderful pieces of American art gathered here. At one point we were able to...

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Card Creek Campground

Card Creek Campground

Happy Windsday! Last night we stayed at Card Creek Campground on Elk City Lake near Independence, Kansas. It's an Army Corps of Engineers site. When we arrived yesterday afternoon we noted that some of the waterfront sites were flooded but fellow campers told us the...

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Pancakes, Hats, and Funnel Cake

Pancakes, Hats, and Funnel Cake

It's the annual Bella Vista craft fair extravaganza weekend and we have Sharon and Mike as our personal guides. First stop was the annual Methodist Men Pancake Day. What a fun community event. Excellent pancakes and accompaniments served with a sense of fun. We made a...

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Celebrating the Defenders

Celebrating the Defenders

A Yelp! reviewer said that besides the Dalton Gang, that the Dalton Museum was also about Shoeless Joe. That was the hook we needed but it turned out to be about a different baseball legend, Walter Johnson, a Baseball Hall of Famer who grew up in Kansas. Despite the...

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The Well That Pa Dug

The Well That Pa Dug

There are at least half a dozen places across the country where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in her lifetime and many more that relate to her life and her family. Last year we had the opportunity to visit the Little House in the Big Woods in Pepin, Wisconsin. Today...

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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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Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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.

Slow Journey Home

Slow Journey Home

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.

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

It’s been a fascinating two day visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. We managed to pack in tours of the HMS Warrior, the HMS Victory as well ast Victory Live: The
Big Repair, and finally the Mary Rose. All were incredibly informative and well presented.