Here we are, Robert and I are hitting Rock Bottom. Yep, we are going to the Rock Bottom Chuck Wagon Races again. This event gets bigger and bigger every year, and it’s even in the middle of nowhere! Over 5,000 participants and spectators are expected to diverge onto the ranch near Green Forest, AR this …
Picher, Oklahoma is a modern day ghost town. It was formerly a major national center of lead and zinc mining. Over a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation left Picher with groundwater contamination and toxic metal-contaminated chat heaps. Picher was declared uninhabitable and efforts to evacuate initiated. In 2009, efforts to close the town began. There …
The older we get, the more Robert and I realize just how small this world actually is. A couple of weeks ago, Robert and I spent the weekend in Warrensburg, MO. The reason for the trip was a gig Robert was playing and since it was a Friday and Saturday night show, we had time …
This past Sunday, we had the opportunity to go to the Springfield Cardinals game against the Corpus Christi Hooks. I had never been to Hammons Field and it had been at least seven years since Robert has gone. We were thankful that a friend gave us some tickets, because otherwise, we wouldn’t have thought to …
We just had to get out of the RV today. We’ve been cooped up too long in front of our computers, focusing on work. It had been raining and snowing last night and wasn’t supposed to get above freezing today. The sky was gray and gloomy, but we didn’t care, we had to get …
Gayla, our photographer friend Daniel Shortt, and I left early Sunday morning from Springfield, MO, and drove south on US HWY 65 to Harrison, AR. Here is where the scenic drive really began. Along Hwy 43 South out of Harrison, driving the very curvy and hilly roads, we had a few opportunities to pull over …
A few weeks ago, when we saw the billboard near Jefferson City, MO advertising “TESTICLE FESTIVAL,” we knew this was one event we couldn’t miss. Today was the day of the long awaited event! Olean, Missouri, population 128 grows by leaps and bounds for their annual unique festival. The city’s Jaycees club has been putting …
We’ve been back in our old stomping grounds of Southwest Missouri now for about a month and a half. We are enjoying the time with friends and family. We’ve been going out quite a bit to several local events to get reacquainted with the area since we’ve been gone for about four years. One such …
“I thought it would be bigger,” is what we thought when we first laid eyes on Niagara Falls. We were close to the area as we made our way to Chicago to see family, so we thought we’d stay a couple of nights near the falls and explore a bit. We pulled into the campground …
While staying at Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Ocracoke Campground, we would often walk over the sand dunes behind our camping spot and meander on the beach. One evening, we went out with the dogs. They went absolutely crazy! They wanted to get their little paws on all the ghost crabs. That evening we didn’t have …
