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Life and TimesVideo In July 1913 the owners of a lovely Victorian house on this location in Omaha, Nebraska celebrated the birth of their grandson, Leslie King, Jr. but not long after the baby's parents divorced and a future US President and his mother moved to...
Last summer we visited the Golden Spike National Monument where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads met to complete the nation's first transcontinental railroad. Today we visited the eastern beginning of that epic construction project and visited the...
See Park Video Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is out in the middle of the prairie many miles from any sizable city, in fact the closest town is Harrison, Nebraska 25 miles to the north, a community of less than three hundred people. What was once the Agate...
See Park Video This morning we visited Chimney Rock. It was an iconic landmark on the Overland Trails. It's amazing to gaze on a bit of geology was was a much anticipated site for folks traveling west a hundred and fifty years ago!
See Park Video Rising 4659 feet above sea level, Scotts Bluff was a landmark on the Overland Trail, this huge rock rising out of the prairie. We stopped at the Scotts Bluff National Monument near Gering, Nebraska. At the Visitor Center we were the only visitors! When...
Camped last night at Wilson Island State Park on the western border of Iowa. For yet another night we set up camp in a light rain and broke camp in the mist. This was our most primitive camp yet. We had pit toilets! But $11 a night is not bad. In Omaha, Nebraska, then...
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.
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The Zulu make up a large portion of the South African population and have a culture all their own. Today we traveled from the Port of Durban on the east coast of Africa to the Valley of a Thousand Hills to learn a bit about their traditional lifestyle.
The island nation of Mauritius was unfamiliar to us before we started planning this trip but today we got a wonderful introduction to this volcanic island that’s been peopled for less than 400 years. We drove past sugar cane fields and tea plantations, visited a vanilla farm, and savored a delicious Mauritian lunch while soaking up all sorts of information about the geology, history, and economy of this tiny country.
A visit the the Hindu shrines in Batu Caves involving a climb of 272 steps into an immense limestone cavern and a pewtersmithing workshop at Royal Selangor the world’s largest producer of pewter ware were our two very different adventures near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia made for an incredible day on our first visit to this Southeastern Asian country.