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Two National Parks

Posted on March 28, 2024August 5, 2024 by traveler

Since I retired, I am more inclined to indulge my impulses and hop onto the road with little or no advanced planning. This is what happened when I literally woke up one morning and decided to visit the closest national park to the area. I had just gotten a 35 mm digital camera and wanted…

US Maps

Posted on January 23, 2024January 29, 2024 by traveler

I purchased a cloth map of the United States in January 2024 that I have used to pin stops I made during journeys referenced on this site. A photo of the map is below: As I added pins for each trip I posted about, I took pictures of those additions to the map, beginning with…

Catching Up and Looking Ahead

Posted on January 22, 2024January 23, 2024 by traveler

In the months since I last posted, I made my move from Iowa to Maryland, or the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia). It was wonderful to spend my first Thanksgiving in years with my family. It was also nearly as wonderful to miss the 20 inches of snow that fell in Iowa and below zero temperatures they experienced…

Back to Boone, And the Arboretum (Sort of), Too

Posted on October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 by traveler

Sorry, but my transitioning back to the East Coast has caused me to fall behind with my posting here. This is the first of three posts that will have to serve as placeholders until I can find time to catch up. Only this one will be published in the meantime with references to all three…

A Fair (Almost) Day at the Iowa State Fair

Posted on October 30, 2023 by traveler

I had agreed to volunteer a couple of hours at the state Democratic Party booth at the Iowa State Fair. I hadn’t attended the fair since my first visit with my host daughter in 2009, so this seemed a great excuse to make a final trip before I head back East. Considering that I was…

Gateway Arch NP-Backtracking

Posted on July 25, 2023August 10, 2023 by traveler

I *knew* I had taken pictures during my 2010 trip to the Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri. I found the ones posted here on my Facebook page. I’m still hopeful that I will find the rest on the camera I used or the computer to which I uploaded them. Unfortunately, the only…

Trekking in Riverside, Iowa-Another Quickie Trip

Posted on July 23, 2023August 14, 2023 by traveler

Did I mention that I’m a Trekker (okay, Trekkie, whatever)? I first started watching the original series in syndication in the early 1970s. In the early 1990s, I attended my first Star Trek convention in Tallahassee, Florida, while I was a grad student at Florida State University. While my personal collection of Trek mostly consists…

Iowa Weekend Quickie-Sunday

Posted on July 18, 2023July 24, 2023 by traveler

The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad train excursion was not scheduled to begin until 1:30 p.m., but I left home at 10 a.m. to give myself plenty of time to gas SB, get breakfast, and take care of business that I could address on a Sunday morning. Like yesterday, the weather was mostly sunny and…

Iowa Weekend Quickie–Saturday

Posted on July 18, 2023July 25, 2023 by traveler

I am a North Carolinian, born and raised, but I have now spent nearly a third of my life in Iowa. I decided I wanted to take in some parts of my adopted home that I haven’t visited before I hie myself back to the East Coast. As usual when I plan a trip like…

Coming Together and Another Quickie Iowa Weekend

Posted on July 12, 2023July 18, 2023 by traveler

When I first started sharing stories and pictures about my travels, I had set up the blogs on WordPress, taking advantage of their free service. However, I’ve noticed that the free service has been adding more and more advertising to the pages, whereas this blog–which uses WordPress to create the posts but is hosted on…