For three nights we've enjoyed Mike and Sharon's driveway as our campsite complete with power hookup, indoor seating, great conversation, freshly brewed coffee, breakfast each morning, and guided tours of the area. The weather has been dicey. The first evening here we...
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2016 Out West
Kristi’s Piano Bar
In a side room of Corona Restaurant in Rogers, Â Arkansas on certain Friday nights Kristi hosts a Piano Bar. It's a gathering of friends, an opportunity to enjoy music, food, and drink, and to participate. She invited a number of the audience up on stage to sing and...
Pancakes, Hats, and Funnel Cake
It's the annual Bella Vista craft fair extravaganza weekend and we have Sharon and Mike as our personal guides. First stop was the annual Methodist Men Pancake Day. What a fun community event. Excellent pancakes and accompaniments served with a sense of fun. We made a...
Eureka Springs
After our foray into the art world Sharon and Mike took us on a tour of Eureka Springs, a wonderful historic town in the heart of the Ozarks. We shot photos of beautiful Victorian houses from the car windows, stopped to check out the Spring Street Grotto, had a...
Crystal Bridges
Today we had the pleasure of visiting Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, an unexpected treat in Bentonville, Arkansas. With Sharon and Mike we wandered through galleries marveling at the wonderful pieces of American art gathered here. At one point we were able to...
Celebrating the Defenders
A Yelp! reviewer said that besides the Dalton Gang, that the Dalton Museum was also about Shoeless Joe. That was the hook we needed but it turned out to be about a different baseball legend, Walter Johnson, a Baseball Hall of Famer who grew up in Kansas. Despite the...
Coffee in Coffeyville
 With this morning's very wet start and having to deal with some errant glycol in the closet, we didn't get a second cuppa this morning so as we headed in search of a coffee shop. Yelp! helped us find Utopia in Coffeyville for a bit of yummy before we went in search...
Card Creek Campground
Happy Windsday! Last night we stayed at Card Creek Campground on Elk City Lake near Independence, Kansas. It's an Army Corps of Engineers site. When we arrived yesterday afternoon we noted that some of the waterfront sites were flooded but fellow campers told us the...
The Well That Pa Dug
There are at least half a dozen places across the country where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in her lifetime and many more that relate to her life and her family. Last year we had the opportunity to visit the Little House in the Big Woods in Pepin, Wisconsin. Today...
Oklahoma!
As we left the Dallas Fort Worth area yesterday we headed north into Oklahoma through hilly country into the Oklahoma City metro area. We paused for the night at Pioneer RV Park Site 26 near Guthrie, north of OKC. We've driven through hills and plains, seen wind...
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All Because of an Eclipse
It was a fabulous opportunity to not only view the 2024 Solar Eclipse from within the path of totality but also to enjoy a five day weekend with friends from the T@B trailer community at Ohio’s East Harbor State Park on the shore of Lake Erie.
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
Spent a most enjoyable March sunny day watching alligators and hiking in St Mark’s National Wildlife Refuge south of Tallahassee, Florida.
Panama, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands
Eight nights at sea aboard Carnival Pride gave us visits to Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, and a Panama Canal Partial Passage as well as lots of fun, camaraderie, and of course dancing.