The Blue Ridge Parkway Sunset

June 25, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Blue Ridge Mountain Sunset_Steve and Gail

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic 469-mile winding road from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. We traveled on the top ridge of the mountains as we drove the southern end of the Parkway. The road twisted and turned and each new vista […]

10 Tips for a Successful Road Trip

May 14, 2019.Reading time 23 minutes.

Are you planning a long road trip to your favorite destination? We have a few tips we have learned on how to make traveling more fun. 1. Planning for the Road Trip If you have read other posts on this blog, you know that we advocate for traveling slow through the countryside. The challenge with […]

A Day on the Kansas Prairie

December 26, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

Last fall, Gail and I had a trip planned in Arkansas to hike and camp. The plans changed however due to poor weather conditions and we ended up on the Kansas prairie tour instead. The week we had planned to travel, there was a huge storm out of the gulf. The southern states all had […]

A Tour of Alice

December 17, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It was a sunny and warm December day and we had been missing Alice so we got her and took a drive through the country outside of the Kansas City area. It was a joy to see Alice again after being in storage for 6 weeks! Since many people have asked us what Alice looks […]

From Boat Life to Van Life

November 21, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

A year ago, we were discussing our lives as boaters as we seemed to be at a crossroad. Twenty eight years earlier we had purchased our first boat when our kids were young and the new boat was something all of us enjoyed doing together. The question at hand a year ago was, what should […]