One of the places I really wanted to visit this year, besides the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, was Mammoth Caves National Park. Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world, with more than 400 miles of mapped passageways under the hills of Kentucky. It’s still being mapped, so expect that number to get…
OK, I know you can’t sew an adventure. But there are two recipes and an appropriate quilt block after the adventure. To visit the others, see the list at the bottom of the page. Here is a cranberry bread recipe: Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Mix together flour,…
These pictures were taken Sept 14, 2009, and show how a boat lock works. A lock is a system used for raising and lowering watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. First, the boat goes into the upper lock, heading east. The upper lock gates close behind it. The water drops…
Life is sure an adventure. We left Pensacola Beach a day early because of all the hysteria about hurricane Irma and drove north to Montgomery, AL. We only stayed there for two days because I didn’t make a longer reservation. At the time I made the reservation, there was no hysteria – I was just…
We are at the Pensacola Beach Resort, in what I believe is the most expensive site of our whole trip. But it is so totally worth it. The trailer backs up to the sound, so we only have to walk out our door, turn right, and by the time we get to the end of…
Greetings from New Orleans! We are at Pontchartrain Landing and thrilled to be here. This was a milestone for us. The place we picked out is really very nice. Pretty much all of the campgrounds in the southwest were glorified parking lots – lots of gravel. You figured out where your site was by finding…
Greetings from Deming NM! This is a town with no less than 7 campgrounds that I counted. We are paying $18 a night for full hookups, cable, access to a neighboring hotel with a pool and wifi…there are probably 10 hotels or motels in town, I didn’t count. I have no idea why! This town…
Greetings from Benson, Arizona! We are staying at Butterfields resort and observatory, and last night we got to see the stars from the observatory! Really very different from planetariums. Learned a lot about how scientists study these things and why they think there is life on one of Saturns moons. But I will start at…
Well, we spent 4 days at the Grand Canyon and got to see the whole park. We utilized the free bus system quite a bit. The rangers had both impromptu and formal talks, which were very interesting. And once again, every visitor center had a museum or display of some sort. We did spend a…
If you ever get a chance to travel this part of the world – even for a week – you really should. These National Parks are all huge, with nice roads, great places to pull off and eat or hike, explanatory plaques at each stop. Every single solitary visitor center is a museum of some sort….
We reluctantly left Las Vegas behind on Sunday. On our last days, we went to see Bodies and the Enchanted Garden and Tiger Preserve. We were going to close out the day on Fremont St, but it was just too hot even though the street was covered. Plus we are spending too much money. Zion…
Well, you travel to expand your horizons and I guess we are doing just that. The last time we were in Albuquerque, we had a grand time and couldn’t wait to come back. That’s why we planned a week here. But it is not what we expected. The whole southwest is a bit of a…
