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When choosing a restaurant for a Birthday Meal, it’s a good idea to search Yelp! for Desserts. That strategy lead us to The Keeping Room in Nebraska City, Nebraska. We parked the T@B on a street parallel to Central Avenue and walked to the restaurant. Not many people...
It’s been a good two night stay here at the West Omaha KOA. We’d been pleased when we were able to get Saturday night reservations online just a couple of days before the weekend then when we called and could not get Friday night also, we weren’t surprised. Then when...
The two of us might know more than most non-Mormons about the early history of the Latter Day Saints and especially of their time in Nauvoo since Karen has an ancestor that professed the faith in Nauvoo but then chose to not join the Saints when they migrated to Salt...
Life and TimesVideo In July 1913 the owners of a lovely Victorian house on this location in Omaha, Nebraska celebrated the birth of their grandson, Leslie King, Jr. but not long after the baby's parents divorced and a future US President and his mother moved to...
Last summer we visited the Golden Spike National Monument where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads met to complete the nation's first transcontinental railroad. Today we visited the eastern beginning of that epic construction project and visited the...
Bodega Victoriana Winery near Glenwood in Iowa's Loess Hills just east of the Missouri River is our Harvest Hosts location tonight. We parked in a fairly level spot in their large and all but empty parking lot and headed up the stairs to meet our host, Doug...
This morning we visited Freedom Tire in Ames and got new tires for Eric the Red, our 2008 F-150. Our last safety check indicated that we should be replacing tires fairly soon but something told us to do it sooner rather than later. Apparently we did it none...
Apparently an incredible experience like a Fourth of July Parade in Slater isn't enough. Pam and Mike set out to show us more of the delights of central Iowa starting with a stop at Double Dipped in Huxley for ice cream or coffee or both in the form of an affogato,...
It was a Fourth of July Parade like none we've ever seen, but then the Florida towns we've lived in didn't tend to have parades in steamy July. With Mike and Pam we traveled to Slater and joined the folks of Story County to watch their parade. This was a...
Everything's greater in Slater! This is the wisdom imparted to us by Emily as we waited for the official fireworks display to get underway. Lots of unofficial, not necessarily legal, fireworks had been happening for a while. The neighboring communities of Cambridge,...
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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Our twelve night stay in Maggie Valley, North Carolina is coming to a close. It's been a delightful stay at Hillbilly Creekside Campground on Site #3 backed up immediately adjacent to Campbell Creek. We've watched the occasional fisherman wading in the stream and a...
It's been a delightful quick trip to Greensboro, North Carolina. We stayed as driveway guests with Steve & Mary, our former neighbors. Through the years we've enjoyed many a wine evening, dinners at one another's homes, long delightful conversations, and as pod...
New River Gorge Video - May 2021 New River isn't exactly new, it's been a river for eons, perhaps the second oldest in the world. It may have gotten it's name when it was discovered as a river not already on the map. However New River Gorge National Park is our newest...