If you haven’t caught our podcast episode #46 – From Rock Island State Park to a Driving Tour of Little Switzerland, click here to hear more about our experience. In this video, we made our way on to the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Asheville, North Carolina. We stopped and worked for a bit at Buck Creek Gap …
We enjoyed the day in Lexington, Missouri at the Battle of Lexington State Park. The park has a visitors center with a bunch of displays, a theater room that tells about the battle and history that took place here and the actual house is still standing where the battle was. The house is open for …
This week’s podcast is about our little adventure as we traveled north from our home base. Here’s a breakdown. Warrensburg, MO Robert had been looking forward to heading up to Warrensburg to attend the annual WAARCI Hamfest. We’ve attended the last couple of years and it’s a good time to see people who Robert chats with over …
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 …
Our departure day of leaving our home in Missouri to go out West to attend Overland Expo West 2018 is fast approaching. We’ve been busy preparing and planning. With each trip we take, we get better at planning. When we go on these trips, we also take along our office so that we can work …
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 …
Our main lesson we learned from our trip East this year was that two weeks was entirely too fast. It’s not about the destination, it’s about enjoying the journey. Even though we felt the pressure of meeting the deadline to get back to our home base, we made sure to take some time off work …
Traveled a total of 523 miles with average 17.73 MPG. Vehicle: 1998 Jeep Wrangler Time Odometer Notes Photos 08/20/2017 10:48 am 192919 Left Caplinger Mills, MO home base. Travelled on Hwy N to Hwy 39 to Hwy 54 11:48 am 192969 Crossed into Kansas 12:30 pm Turned north onto Hwy 59 …
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 …
People are always commenting on the places my husband, Robert, and I visit. They find it amusing or fascinating (really, they may think we are crazy) how we become nomads for a period of time during the year. Exploring our great country on highways, byways, and back roads is what Robert and I love to …
