A blog about our Happy Family adventure
Our travels have brought us to a nice place to catch our breaths at my parents’ house in Williamsburg, Virginia. Perhaps, here I can catch up on the blog, among myriad other things!
We had a wonderful family Thanksgiving, with all the traditional foods and festivities, and we vegetarians cooked a Tofurky in juxtaposition to my [...]
On our way from Kansas City to Springfield, MO, our CouchSurfing host, Dana, suggested that we stop at the George Washington Carver national monument as an interesting sight to see, and it was.
This was George Washington Carver’s boyhood home. The monument has been recently renovated and has lots of information about him and the science [...]
My grandmother was born in Chillicothe, MO. And many of you know that I’m really interested in my family genealogy. So I took the opportunity today to visit Chillicothe, MO and St. Joseph, MO to do some genealogical research.
We started at the genealogy room of the Chillicothe Public Library, meeting with a genealogist there. Then [...]
We drove 9 hours the next day to Lawrence, Kansas. This is a much longer drive than I’d normally like to make, but there wasn’t a lot we wanted to do between Colorado and our Lawrence destination (though there are a lot of things to see in Kansas if we’d had a lot more time). [...]
We departed Boulder tonight en route to Lawrence, KS. We had hoped to get into Kansas tonight, but got a late start. And then we ran into lots of blowing snow, fog, and slippery roads (who knew that Boulder would be so nice, and just an hour East it’s deep winter!?). So after driving 40 [...]