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This may well be the most incredible Harvest Hosts experience we've yet had. We are guests tonight at Hansen's Dairy. Jay stopped by our T@B and welcomed us the the family farm that his great great grandparents homesteaded in 1864. The family began raising Holsteins...
This morning's route took us through the town of Hampton, Iowa with it's courthouse standing proudly in the center of town then past countless farms and fields, grain silos and barns adorned with painted quilts. In fact we tweaked our route this morning to see a...
There are days when our seat of our pants method of trip planning hits a snag or two. This morning we left Camp Faribo, Faribault, MN intending to visit the Meredith Willson Museum in Mason City, Iowa but enroute we discovered that the site is closed on Mondays. Plan...
Thanks to Don McLean and American Pie for helping us all remember. Thanks to Aerial America for giving us a visual image of the site in Iowa. Thanks to Roadside America for giving us the location. Thanks to the landowner for permitting the memorial erected by Ken...
Our rules regarding the map on the side of the T@B say that we must do something interesting and also spend at least one night in a state before we can add the state sticker to our map. Last summer we drove through a portion of Iowa on our way from Minnesota to...
Even before the 1992 publication of Robert James Waller's novel and the 1995 release of the movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep the Bridges of Madison County, Iowa have been celebrated. This one was moved to Winterset City Park in 1970 before the first...
In a four room rental house in 1907 the wife of a Winterset IA pharmacist gave birth to a 13 pound baby boy. By age three Marion and his parents had moved on and by the time he was seven they lived in California. A surfing accident led to a part time job at Fox...
Devonian Fossil Gorge Park Video Amana Colonies Park Video We camped last night near the Coralville Dam. During the 1993 Flood the water spilled over the dam in such proportion that it scoured away all the topsoil and some of the limestone bedrock downstream from the...
Biography Video Park Ranger Home Tour Our first stop of interest in Iowa was the Herbert Hoover Birthplace, Presidential Library, and Museum. Herbert Clark Hoover was born here near West Branch, east of Iowa City, Iowa in 1874. At the age of eleven, having been...
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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A visit to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden gave us insight into the evolution and role of public transportation in the creation of London as a great metropolitan area.
Bath, England is an amazingly inviting place with deep deep history. One little day trip isn’t anywhere near enough but we did enjoy delving into the history of the Roman Baths, basking in the beauty of Bath Abbey, and topping our visit off with Tea and Bath Buns!
Today’s excursion to The Victoria & Albert Museum established in 1857 gave us a glimpse into the Victorian world and a chance to see some glorious originals and copies up close.