Our overland trip westward was supposed to begin on April 13 but needed to be delayed. Our original plan was to leave out on the 13th and head to Claremore, OK to attend the Green Country Hamfest and spend our first night at the Claremore Expo Center’s campground. Then we were just going to continue …
Our departure date is fast approaching for our trip west and we’ve been planning our route and weaving in our work into our travel time. Several little things have been done to the Jeep in preparation. We took the opportunity to get out of the house and go on a little test drive to make …
We are excited to have the Jeep up and running again. The engine was pulled apart, just for some preventative maintenance before we go out west to Overland Expo. Robert and his Dad set out to replace the head gasket. Robert took the head to Mother’s Machine Shop in Springfield, MO to check for cracks …
Our rental property is in between tenants and that means there’s work to do. This time, we aren’t doing all the work ourselves and have asked for help. Good folks like Queen City Disposal dropped off a dumpster so that we could fill it up with stuff left by the last tenants. Stuff like a …
It’s been a pretty ordinary week with just the normal work routine. Robert is preparing the Jeep for our trip out West. He has it all torn apart. In this lull of travel, we’ve been thinking about some of the cool places we’ve been. Almost two years ago, we went to Kansas City …
For weeks, Robert has been looking forward to a local Mountain Man Rendezvous. The day finally arrived and we were ready! The February day was crisp but beautiful. We set out on the relatively short drive of 80 miles. Robert was decked out in his mountain man clothes ready to mingle. Once we arrived, it …
What a beautiful December weekend. With the temps in the 70s, we had to get out and about. Our destination was the Battle of Pea Ridge Reenactment but we ended up doing and seeing much more! We recorded some of the battle. Robert may or may not have gotten carried away with the sound effects. Since …
I think Robert was born in the wrong time period. Over the last year or so, he’s been doing a lot of leather work. For as long as we’ve known each other, I had no idea of his talents with making handcrafted leather items. I’m one lucky lady to have several purses and notebook covers made especially for …
Our hike up to the summit of Mt. Rogers, the highest point of Virginia, was one of our high points of our trip (no pun intended, well maybe a pun was intended). We tracked our trail on the way up using Gaia GPS for the first time. Loving the app! We didn’t have any Internet …
There was certainly solar eclipse frenzy on Monday, August 21st. Like many, we used the Eclipse as an excuse to get away from our home base and take the day off work. We headed for northeast Kansas and landed near Hiawatha at Brown State Fishing Lake for our total eclipse view. We recount our little …
