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When we made a phone call to family in Salt Lake City on Sunday to make plans for a visit this weekend, the drive from Pipestone MN seemed eminently doable. We forgot how many places we want to explore along this route. Yesterday we just buzzed through the Black Hills...
After nearly two weeks in North Dakota and a quick visit with family in South Dakota, we're ready to head to Montana. It's one of the missing states on the T@B map. Our route is taking us west through the Black Hills along US-16 into Wyoming then north on I-90. It's...
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...
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...
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.
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...
See Register Cliff Park Video Here. See Oregon Trail Ruts Park Video Here. This section of The Oregon Trail was also a part of The California Trail as early as 1841, as well as The Mormon Trail beginning in 1846, and The Pony Express in 1860-1861. When The Mormons...
Years ago we got a book listing some of the best state parks in the US. Today we're staying at one of the parks listed. It's not the best time for boating since the lake/reservoir has been drained to send water to Nebraska for irrigation. But another great thing about...
As we sought a campsite last night near Ft Collins CO, we learned that Frontier Days is in full swing in Cheyenne WY and that campsites and hotel rooms are a scarce commodity. We were lucky enough to score a tent site for last night but we now know that we'd rather...
We spent today in search of new adventures in Grand Teton National Park. At the suggestion of a park ranger we hiked near String Lake where the mountains seem to come up out of the water. We explored a little in the Laurence S. Rockefeller Preserve to learn more about...
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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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.