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7 days ago
7 min

IOWA - "Frank Lloyd Wright, Buddy Holly, and Dwight"

We arrive in the Hawkeye State! When you cross the border from Minnesota into Iowa you pass into the heartland of America. And the heartl...

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Nov 30, 2020
6 min

Pivot Points Along Our Path

One of the questions we are most frequently asked is how do we plan our travel route. No, we don't throw a dart against a wall map, no we...

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Oct 28, 2020
8 min

Beautiful Wisconsin..

I had never thought much about the state of Wisconsin. It's not in the news very often. It doesn't have a major tourist attraction like t...

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Jun 30, 2020
9 min

Home of Laverne and Shirley!

If you're too young to remember this late 1970's TV show, it was about the misadventures of two best friends Laverne DeFazio and Shirley ...

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May 21, 2020
10 min

Lincoln and lots of Corn!

After leaving the Hoosier State we decided to visit the last of the Great Lake states: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Our first stop...

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Apr 21, 2020
11 min

Time to play catch-up: INDIANA

So I thought I'd use this down time during Lorraine's recovery from surgery (and the quarantine) to catch up on my travel journaling. I h...

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Mar 22, 2020
6 min

Breaking Ankle

Well, it was probably only a matter of time.. After visiting 36 states and hiking hundreds of trails of various terrain and difficulty, o...

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Jan 14, 2020
8 min

How has travel changed us?

This past Christmas, we left our RV in Pahrump, Nevada and flew back to Delaware to spend time with family and friends. [Many thanks to m...

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Nov 25, 2019
9 min

Year TWO Is In The Books! And, our top ten list!

It's hard to believe but a little over 24 months ago, we pulled up stakes in Delaware and became asphalt adventurers. Us, two years ago: ...

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Oct 20, 2019
2 min

One Of The Coolest Places We've Visited!

In my last blog post, I mentioned our visit to giant dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.. While those mammoth dunes were ind...

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Oct 6, 2019
4 min

Michigan's Best Kept Secret..

Quick! ..Where is the tart-cherry capital of the United States? [Que the Jeopardy music] Well, stay tuned to find out the answer to this ...

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Sep 10, 2019
4 min

The U. P. or P. U.!?

Okay, so it wasn't really that bad, but everybody had talked with such glowing reverence for the Upper Peninsula, otherwise known as the...

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Aug 19, 2019
7 min

"It was Summertime in Northern Michigan"..

Like the lyrics to the popular song state: we spent our summertime in northern Michigan. This is the second of four blog posts describin...

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Jul 10, 2019
5 min

Go to Hell?? --Been there. What else you got?!

If you read my last post, you might think the title of this blog refers to the roads we encountered in Michigan. While driving on those r...

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Jun 15, 2019
6 min

"If you don't respect your toys, you don't deserve to have them!"

This is something my mother used to say to me as she was pulling the toy truck from my hands that I was probably using as a hammer to mak...

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May 31, 2019
5 min

Wha'd ya expect.. it's Cleveland!

What comes to mind when you think of Cleveland? Go ahead, I'll wait.. [insert sounds of crickets chirping] ..Not much, right? Except for ...

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May 3, 2019
5 min

Columbus: Can you go home again?

After leaving Dayton we traveled to the very heart of Ohio, geographically and politically, the capital city of Columbus. This city was o...

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Mar 26, 2019
11 min

Ohio: Our old stomping grounds! First stop: Dayton

As described in prior posts, this leg of our journey has taken us through a variety of beautiful states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas...

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Feb 28, 2019
4 min

"Oh X#$%!"..

..Are the words that first ran through my mind. Let me explain. I am going to jump ahead in our timeline and update you to a recent unple...

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Feb 18, 2019
12 min

Kentucky... Move along, folks. Not much to see here..

Not that Kentucky isn't beautiful, because it is --gentle rolling hills, windy roads, picturesque horse farms-- it's just that the state ...

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