This week’s travels took us about 70 miles west of home, to three of Illinois’ state parks. It was a very short & easy trip on Interstate 80, and fortunately, wasn’t windy like our trip a few weeks ago! We are camping at Starved Rock Family Campground which has...
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...
This trip is a bit unusual, as it has had one purpose…Connor’s college graduation! Oh, and packing his stuff to be moved from Oxford to a storage unit in Columbus for a month, and then to Chicago. It’s kind of amazing how much stuff he has accumulated in four...
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...
We’ve spent some time exploring more of New Bern this week, while also tackling some necessary chores. On Monday, we started our Valentine’s Day with the most romantic thing a couple can do together…we went to the laundromat! I honestly cannot remember the last time I was in a...
Warning, this is a long post…but it is the last one for several months and covers several days! We had a quiet morning at the campground on Saturday; Connor had a paper to write, so he focused on that for a few hours while we relaxed, took a walk,...
Well, we are back on the road, but it wasn’t looking too promising a few days ago. In my last post, RoVer was at the repair shop for some electrical issues after we canceled our Hudson Valley trip. She spent that entire week there, and finally they felt they...