Category: Travel

Pontiac and Watseka Illinois

Having a couple of days to get to Shipshewana, IN we are going to spend the night at Pontiac, IL. We are using a Harvest Host location to spend the night, this time it...

Camping at Clark Ferry Recreation Area

We moved upriver to the Clark Ferry Recreation Area in Montpelier, Iowa. This is an Army Corps of Engineers facility right on the Mississippi River and if you have the national parks senior pass...

It was very hot in Kansas City!

For the next few days we will be staying at the Draft Kings at Casino Queen Campground which is located in East St. Louis, IL directly across the Mississippi River from the Gateway to...

Still Going Across Kansas

I thought that once I got home and had reliable internet access getting this blog updated would be easy. Little did I know that life at home would get in the way. Enough of...

We stopped in Oakley, KS for a few days.

First I have to correct something in the last post although we were heading east when we stopped at the Kit Carson County Fair Grounds and toured the carousel we were still in Colorado!...

We are finally headed east!

Yes we are leaving Colorado and heading east but we are not in any hurry to get back to Delaware. Once we got into Kansas it didn’t take long to find a place to...

A day at Royal Gorge!

Well here we go again! According to this blog we are still in Colorado but that is not true. We are actually home and hopefully now that we have full time WIFI access I...

Garden of the Gods

Our next adventure was to explore “The Garden of the Gods”. The name for this area was created in 1859 when surveyors from Denver thought the area would make a really good beer garden...

More adventures in Colorado

There is so much to do in and around Colorado Springs and one of them is The Cave of the Winds. Tucked in the mountains is a cave that so interesting to see, but...

We are in central Colorado

Today we are in Woodlawn Park Colorado and there is going to be a lot to do. First item on the list is Pikes Peak! I hope that the smoke and clouds aren’t too...