A cool yet sunny Saturday morning in mid-January found me in a carpool with some talented environmental educators. Our destination was Florida Station which is located, appropriately enough, in Florida Canyon along the northwest edge of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. And before I get to far ahead, you should know that it [...]
One of the many things that I love about traveling is being a tourist. Not in the annoying, stereotypical American type of way but in the exploratory way. For better or worse, I was born with an insatiable curiosity (ask anyone who knew me as a child). Perhaps when I was small someone read me [...]
As you may have noticed things have been a bit quiet around fautrever.com lately. We’re still here, happy and healthy but our day-to-day life has certainly changed. As you may recall we purchased a house last May. It was a big decision but it felt like the right one for us. We had long dreamed [...]
After our mammoth of a drive from St. Louis, Missouri to southern New Mexico over the weekend we were in need of a quiet week. Especially since Mound City had kept us so busy during our stay. We had heard good things about St. Louis from our friends Rich and Karen but we were still [...]
When we left off last time, St. Louis had witnessed the safe return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from their journey to the Pacific Ocean. In September 1806 the small town was surprised to see the men again as many had assumed the worst of their long absence. Though the local citizenry hosted a [...]
It wasn’t intentional but for our time in the St. Louis area we ended up in Collinsville, Illinois on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Talk about a happy accident—our RV park was located less than a mile from the largest prehistoric settlement in North America: Cahokia. Since I had studied the ancient city [...]
After an interesting time in Iowa we dropped down into Missouri, the last state along the Big Muddy that we would have time to visit this summer. As we traveled along the Upper Mississippi River we often ran across quotes from Mark Twain, the author who has been indelibly linked to the river. We agreed [...]
Leaving Red Wing we drove south along the Great River Road. The name is a bit of a misnomer as it is not one continuous road, instead it consists of numerous small highways and byways in the ten states that border the Mississippi River. We started out that morning on the Minnesota side of the [...]
To wrap up our summer adventure we thought it would be fun to start at the headwaters and then follow the Mississippi River south before turning west toward home. Truly, it was a great idea and we were both excited about the trip. However, we soon came to the sobering realization that we just didn’t [...]
I’ll admit it, I am a Cheesehead—in more ways than one. First of all, I love cheese (all kinds, except maybe Limburger). Then there’s the fact that I lived in northern Wisconsin for a short stint in the early 90s which is directly responsible for my being a Packer-Backer. So I was more than [...]
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