Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
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
And Snow in Los Alamos! We had a little snow on our afternoon visit to Los Alamos, or should I say visits…the 20th and again yesterday, the 24th. So, we didn’t walk around as much as we might have, but we did visit the Manhattan Project NHP (#36-Revisit) – Los Read more