by Ann | Apr 24, 2018 | Experiences, Family, USA
[well]This is a guest post, written by Ann’s younger brother, Robert Shrewsbury. Robb and his family live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[/well] By Robert Shrewsbury On a recent business trip to Fresno, California, I had a meeting canceled and found myself with some...
by Steve | Apr 18, 2018 | Experiences, Feature Travel, Food and Drink, The Midwest, USA, Where we've been
I went on my first agritourism progressive meal today. Let me just say, I’m now a big fan. Ann and I are attending the Plains Safaris: A conference on tourism and conservation in the Great Plains in Kearney, Nebraska, this week. When I saw that one of the...
by Ann | Apr 6, 2018 | Experiences, Feature Places to Stay, Feature Travel, Pawhuska, Places to stay, The Pioneer Woman, USA, Where we've been
We were at the right place at the right time this week when we rolled across the windy plains of Oklahoma into the small town of Pawhuska for the seventh time in nine months, excited to see if there was any progress on the Pioneer Woman Boarding House. As you know by...
by Steve | Feb 22, 2018 | Cruising, Experiences, Feature Experiences, The World, Where we've been
I had no idea what a cenote was before our cruise to Mexico. In fact, I don’t even think I’d ever even heard the word. But I signed up to swim in one, anyway, because travel is about adventure, right? After leaving Chichén Itzá, we made a short drive over...
by Steve | Feb 5, 2018 | Cruising, Experiences, Feature Cruising, Feature Travel, Travel
When you quit your job after 21 years, the first thing you want to do is get away and have fun. That’s why the morning after my last day as a middle school principal, we were in the car headed south to the Port of Galveston for our first-ever Carnival Cruise....
by Steve | Jan 17, 2018 | Experiences, The Midwest, USA, Where we've been
We planned an overnight trip to Omaha recently on what turned out to be one of those bone-chilling cold days we have here in the Midwest. The forecast called for snow showers, 30-mile-an-hour winds, and temperatures dropping to below zero that night. Instead of...