White Water State Park / Root River Trail System
I really am an outdoor sort of person, always have been. Camped often with my parent’s decades ago, later with my kids and now with good friends. Have been known to scare a trout from time...
Author: Dennis
Mississippi Palisades or “where did you put that Canadian insurance card”
Today is the first day of an adventure that I have been thinking about for years. I have been on trips lasting more than three weeks before but never with the Princess. She retired this year...
Kettle State Park, PA or Poor Shower Curtain Management
Kettle Creek State Park in in Pennsylvania is the kind of place you can’t get to from here. Which is one of the reasons that make it a great place to explore. ( https://pennsylvaniastateparks.reserveamerica.com/camping/kettle-creek-state-park/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=PA&parkId=880112 ) For...
Went Fishing the other day…. or Gore-Tex really does shrink.
There is this beautiful property, Westover Farms, outside of Steelville, MO named after an entrepreneurial settler from back in 1854 according their website. http://westoverfarms.com/ Missouri is not particularly noted for it’s trout fishing as compared...
Beautiful Weekend, Good Friends
This past weekend we joined close friends on their annual trip to Cuivre River State Park in eastern Missouri. The stated goals of the weekend were to open the trailers for the first time of the...
An Unscheduled Adventure
We are on the road heading west to see our son in Colorado. Have made the run from the Illinois to Denver more times than I can remember. First run was in 1969 with my parents. ...
Cranes, Cranes and Cowboys or Cell Phones Don’t Float
The first day of spring looked a lot like the last day winter. Yesterday’s rain turned to ice overnight. The weather report calls for sun today but right now the clouds are heavy and low, duck...
Kearney, NE
Spent the last day of winter driving nine hours, mostly through rain hoping to find Sandhill cranes at the end. My friend, Jimmie, actually did the driving. I was in charge of navigation. Wasn’t too...
Getting started….
Since retirement almost two years ago I have been roaming around Wyoming and Montana and up into Alberta a few weeks at a time here and there. As I related stories from my road trips to...
