Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
Made it to Amish Country…3rd stop in Pennsylvania! We spent another week around Donora, PA, mostly visiting Mark’s family. Then we spent 4 nights/3 days in Gettysburg. There we spent a day in Harrisburg and 2 days in Gettysburg. Some fun included: Spending Joy’s Birthday in Pittsburgh! Spontaneous! Walk across Read more…
Before we left for 3+ weeks at home in Bellevue As predicted, we had a busy 4 days in Western Pennsylvania at the beginning of May…camping in Washington (“Little Washington”) for 2 days. Mark visited with brother Dave, and we cleaned out Lizzy and took her to Monongahela to store Read more…
Left Seattle Area yesterday, after 3+ weeks at home We didn’t do even half of what we had on our To-Do List! No surprise. We did get in all our planned (and follow-up) doctor & dentist visits and did the most pressing yard work (i.e. hedge trimming). Mark worked on Read more…
So Much History! We stayed in Lebanon, between Dayton and Cincinnati for 6 nights, where we squeezed in 5 days of touring, followed by 2 nights at Buckeye Lake for 1 day of touring in Columbus, a bit short, due to the rain. Didn’t make it to Hopewell Culture National Read more…
Illinois & Indiana Capitols & last Route 66 Stop (for now) We bypassed St. Louis, to go where we haven’t been before, but we still got to visit with an old St. Louis work friend of Mark’s. Jim and his wife drove up from southern Illinois to see us in Read more…
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more…
Our First “Real” Visit to Oklahoma We drove through Oklahoma on I-40 in January 2013, with only one, short stop. So, it only barely “counted” as state visit a at all. That has been rectified! And…no more snow…actually above 70o every day! Although, we did have lightning last night, and Read more…
First Stop, Amarillo, Texas! After 6 weeks in New Mexico, it was time to head Northeast, across the Prairie and Midwest, to Pittsburgh by May 3. We made it out of New Mexico on I-40 and half-way across the Texas Panhandle to Amarillo, our longest driving day since we took Read more…
Last Stop in Nuclear New Mexico! Yesterday we got up at 6:00 AM to attend the Trinity Site Open House! The Army did a great job hosting it. Eight Security Soldiers checking 8 vehicles at a time going in, great parking management, plenty of porta potties, plenty of buses to Read more…
While we do a lot of our route planning around visits to National Park Sites (and State Capitols, etc.), we try to leave time for other sightseeing. The Bonus Sights around Grants, New Mexico, were AND…Hopefully our last SNOW!!! Five nights in Grants, and it only Snowed, a little, the Read more…