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Needless to say we tried our darnedest to cheer the road up! (Found on a lonely stretch of road in North Dakota.)

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After leaving Medora we headed east to the state capital. We spent a week along the banks of the Missouri River before continuing on our way to the state’s largest city. As we toured various sites near Bismarck and Fargo we followed a few interesting threads woven through North Dakota’s story. The tapestry, for our [...]

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It was going to be a long day; we were leaving Loveland, Colorado headed for Spearfish, South Dakota. A distance of 400 miles (give or take a few)—roughly double what we usually tackle. It may not sound like all that far to those of you in a passenger vehicle but considering that our top (safe) [...]

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First things that came to mind when I used to think about Colorado: Rocky Mountains, snow, Rockies (baseball team), Colorado River, Continental Divide, Coors beer, wheat, cows, and gold (not necessarily in that order). Well, I can toss some of that out of the window now. After visiting Colorado for two weeks the Centennial State [...]

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When the thermometer reached 107 degrees we knew it was high time for us to hit the road. Don’t get me wrong, we love Tucson, but sometimes enough is enough. The funny twist to the high temps is that they are usually required in order to bring the conditions that typify our monsoon season. According [...]

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The last leg of our summer trip found us in familiar territory: southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Several members of my family moved out to the San Simon Valley over a dozen years ago and we love visiting them; not only for their wonderful company but for the gorgeous views. The rhyolitic Chiricahua Mountains [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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