Video: Charles Lindbergh at Little Falls Yesterday after getting ourselves and our T@B situated, the two of us decided to head off on a bit of a hike despite the mosquitoes. We grabbed the portable Thermacell and headed off to hike on the grounds where a young Charles...
CATEGORY
Road Trip
Shocking the Oats
The Oliver H. Kelley Farm on the banks of the Mississippi near Elk River MN is a working farm utilizing 1860's agricultural techniques. It's a Minnesota Historical Society site. As we were walking from the visitors center to the homestead we noticed farm...
The Place the Music Died
Thanks to Don McLean and American Pie for helping us all remember. Thanks to Aerial America for giving us a visual image of the site in Iowa. Thanks to Roadside America for giving us the location. Thanks to the landowner for permitting the memorial erected by Ken...
The Iowa Sticker
Our rules regarding the map on the side of the T@B say that we must do something interesting and also spend at least one night in a state before we can add the state sticker to our map. Last summer we drove through a portion of Iowa on our way from Minnesota to...
And the Bridges
Even before the 1992 publication of Robert James Waller's novel and the 1995 release of the movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep the Bridges of Madison County, Iowa have been celebrated. This one was moved to Winterset City Park in 1970 before the first...
Winterset’s Famous Son
In a four room rental house in 1907 the wife of a Winterset IA pharmacist gave birth to a 13 pound baby boy. By age three Marion and his parents had moved on and by the time he was seven they lived in California. A surfing accident led to a part time job at Fox...
Mississippi Sunset
Just north of the Quad Cities, we scored a site in the Fisherman's Corner COE campground with a view of the the mighty Mississippi. As night falls we can watch the red and green lights of the barges move along this great waterway. We're reflecting on the fact that...
Iconic Tractors
Factory Tour Video It's the John Deere Pavilion in Moline, Illinois and it's full of incredible machines from a tiny robotic lawn mower to massive logging machines with walking technology and from 1930's tractors to the latest innovations. As we expected, this...
The Ambler Texaco
This morning we sprung for the Roadside America app hoping it would help us find some of the off the beaten path attractions. Then we set off in the direction of Moline but avoiding interstate travel. IL-17 and the new app lead us right to this gem. Through a series...
Illinois Sunset
Thought we were headed to a city park campground in western Indiana but that didn't happen. Then perhaps the state park near Kankakee but the campgrounds there are closed for renovation. Thankfully we found a KOA along our route. We're in eastern Illinois tonight with...
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.
Enjoy exploring, and leave us comments! We love hearing from you. And if you’d like to follow us, Subscribe by signing up at the bottom of this page.
Categories
Use the dropdowns to see sub-categories, or navigate the archives by month.
OUR VERY
LATEST
Sc@rlett and Bell@ Side by Side
There’s subtle differences between the 2018 and 2021 models of nüCamp’s T@B 400 teardrop camper but we’re looking forward to enjoying the upgrades.
Bell@ Is Ours
Today we took delivery of Bell@, a 2021 T@B 400, at the factory in Sugarcreek, Ohio. We were highly honored to be able to spend time with Joe Mullet, Jesse Mullet, Scott Hubble, John Sanate, Austin Jones, and Mark Beachy, among so many other of our friends at nüCamp RV.
Just One Egg
When we arrived at Timbercrest nearly three weeks ago, we were shown a Killdeer nest in the middle of the gravel in the campsite across from ours, four black and white speckled eggs, and a very frantic parent trying to distract us from the nest with a characteristic...













