Thursday was a shorter day as we drove into Ann Arbor to visit the Gerald Ford Presidential Library. In all other instances, the Presidential Library and Museum are co-located, but Ford’s is a bit different; his library is at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. His museum is...

This week’s travels take us north into Wisconsin, about 200 miles from home. We’re in Southwest Wisconsin, in a small town called Spring Green. We’re staying at the Wisconsin Riverside Resort on the north shore of the Wisconsin River. We’ve been to Eastern WI before, but not to this...

This week was the first of our two summer camping trips in NY. We have a light summer planned, since we knew it would be a busy few months with Connor’s move in June and our upcoming move this Fall. We headed out of Rochester Monday morning with Chautauqua...

Our final weekend in Asheville was pretty quiet, and we departed early on Monday for our next stop. After six full weeks in North Carolina, we crossed the border into Virginia to start our journey back north. We stopped in Roanoke, VA and our primary destination there was “Black...

Before I get into the new stuff, I have an interesting update to my last post. As you’ll recall, we visited Winston Salem where RJ Reynolds tobacco company is headquartered. When he worked for Videk (a spinoff/subsidiary of Kodak), my Dad received a patent for a “Cigarette Package Inspection...

Tuesday was an “eclectic” day according to Mark…lots of variety! We started with a tour of “Korner’s Folly”, a home in Kernersville, NC. They bill it as “a house like no other” and I have to agree. The house was built in 1878 by Jule Gilmer Korner who was...

On Friday, we headed to the last of the “Research Triangle” cities, Raleigh…also the capital of North Carolina. Our first stop was a fabulous garden and nursery, Juniper Level Botanic Garden, that is only open to the public eight weekends each year, and we happened to catch one of...