If you only look at the Hawkeye’s score in the Outback Bowl you might expect we were sorry we made the four hour drive from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa… That score? The Gators ate us alive! 30-3. (I guess that makes us GATOR BAIT after all!) But losing the football game is really a small […]
University Of Iowa Museum Of Natural History
It was quite easy to plan low cost, child-friendly activities for our week long “GrandCamp” last summer. I simply thought about all of the places we used to take our sons when they were little. And the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History was the FIRST place that came to mind. We made a […]
Grandkids, Fossils, And Fun For All!
Peepaw and I may be old, but we took our Indy grandgirls to see some fossils much older than us! We took the girls on a short road trip to the Devonian Fossil Gorge near Iowa City. But before we trekked through that incredible glimpse of truly ANCIENT history, we started with a picnic lunch from […]
Grandgirls and Birds…The Iowa Raptor Project
When our Indy grandgirls decided to spend a week with us this summer, Peepaw and I began to make a list of nearby places to go and things to see during their “GrandCamp” visit. One of the first places I thought of was the Iowa Raptor Project near Solon, formerly known as the Mcbride Raptor […]
Meemaw and Peepaw’s GrandCamp…FUN For ALL Ages!
Iowa is not known as a tourist destination, but you would have a hard time convincing our Indy grand daughters of that. Our First Annual GrandCamp was a huge success! Earlier this summer, our Indy family told us their girls would like to spend a week with us in Iowa City. We were ecstatic! You […]
Another Road Trip…In The Books!
Our long road trip back to the Heartland was filled with some beautiful scenery… And even though parts of Nebraska are flat as a fritter, there were still some beautiful vistas to be found. I don’t know what it is about abandoned buildings that is so appealing to me. Maybe it’s the stories I’m sure […]
J’s Prairie Rose Cafe – Laramie, Wyoming
J’s Prairie Rose Cafe in downtown Laramie opens at 7 a.m. sharp, and we were waiting as the door was unlocked. As soon as we entered the building we were greeted with a smile by our server named Anna. She quickly delivered menus and steaming mugs of coffee. (Good coffee, I might add.) This was one […]
Our Overnight Stay In Laramie, Wyoming
At an elevation of 7,165 feet, Laramie Wyoming is about ten miles from the Lincoln Monument (the highest point in the United States) on I-80. And judging from the number of deserted buildings and ranches in the area, it takes a special type of individual to thrive, or even to survive there. We arrived in […]
Sofie’s Chatterbox Cafe – Rupert, Idaho
Sofie’s Chatterbox turned out to be an eatery worth waiting overnight to experience, since Rupert Idaho (population about 6,000) was closed up “tighter than a drum” when we pulled into town on a Sunday afternoon. Our drive from Oregon to Idaho took us through some amazing scenery earlier that day, and I could picture cowboys […]
Hello Dutch Brothers Coffee…Good-Bye Oregon
We were up before the sun to begin our long drive home to Iowa, and as we headed out of town I realized I still had one Bucket List item left unchecked! All week long I had seen LINES of cars…waiting to buy coffee at little kiosks all over Yamhill County. People were waiting in […]