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Childhood Home Video Franklin Pierce Biography Video He was the dark horse candidate in the 1852, this son of a tavern keeper in rural New Hampshire. He's still a bit of a dark horse in our national history. Most Americans, if they recognize Franklin Pierce as one of...
We have personal rules for earning the right to place a state sticker on the map on the side of our T@B. We must visit a place of interest and do something there as well as spend at least one night in the state. Two years ago we drove through northern New Hampshire as...
Enroute from Middleborough to Dorchester we availed ourselves of the opportunity to visit an old favorite. There was a Friendly's Ice Cream in DeLand when we lived there years ago. We enjoyed many a meal there when the kids were grade school aged. Today we feasted on...
We got home to the KOA in Middleboro last night to discover a population explosion had occurred in our absence. It looks like all sites are occupied. There's a tent city that blossomed just behind our trailer. It's an end of summer celebration! Everyone wants to...
We spent as much time as possible traveling east on US-20 enjoying the scenery and snagging a couple of caches this morning. We finally got to the point though that navigating the back roads with a GPS program that cannot be set to avoid the interstate got too...
Spent last night at a new campground in Pittsfield SF. Nice roomy level site in the woods! Excellent comfort station. No electricity. Mosquitoes. Thunderstorm. The big frustration was the lack of signage that led up a very narrow mountain road going the wrong way with...
Ranger TalkCall Bell Restoration Ranger TalkTable We had the privilege today of visiting the home of the 8th President of the United States! Lindenwald, the home and farm estate of Martin Van Buren in the years following his presidency is located in his hometown...
We suspected last evening that we would get rain during the night. With that in mind we packed up our outdoor furnishings before bed. Indeed we got rain throughout the night and all morning so far. It's been sufficiently light to allow us to cook a...
We spent the day immersed in the history of the fifth cousins Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. At the National Park we toured Springwood, his childhood and their marital home in a group of about fifty people. From there we were on our own to explore the stables, visit...
Staying last night and tonight in Plattekill NY. Just crossed the Hudson this morning, headed to Hyde Park to spend the day steeped in the history of Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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Like most Americans, we knew little about the 9th President of the United States except for his 1840 campaign slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and that he died one month into his presidency presumably of pneumonia after delivering a two hour long inaugural address...
Early settlers of the what is now Ohio discovered and named Fort Ancient, a site that looked to them to have been built as a military defense. It’s a place near Oregonia, Ohio that’s rich in archeology and has been studied for it’s historical significance since the...
After a full afternoon at SunWatch, we did a drive by of the only house still in Dayton that belonged to the Wright Brothers, a treat after our recent visit to the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk. The brothers, pioneers of powered flight, continued to...