The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
There was plenty to keep us occupied as we passed through Kansas. Here are some of the sites we visited in the northeastern part of the state. Maybe driving across eastern Kansas isn’t the most …
We’d recently visited the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) in Pepin, Wisconsin, which was underwhelming. However, De Smet, South Dakota, not only has more of a claim to Wilder and her family, it has …
The famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Though the family struggled financially, they managed to just hang on to the fringes of “good society”, but they bounced around …
In early May, we needed to make an emergency trip from Kansas back east to New Jersey (1,100 miles in just over a day, woo-hoo!). After a few weeks on the East Coast, we reversed …
We stayed at the campground in the 700-acre John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky for several days. While there we were able to do some birding, see the total solar eclipse, and also …
You see the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum has a famous author mentioned (that’s Ernest) in its name, so it’s no surprise we found ourselves there. However, I thought it was a bit of a stretch to think …
I think if you look in the dictionary for “conflicted,” you will find an example of asking Doug if he wants to visit the historic home of an author, but it’s an author he doesn’t …
Willie Morris (1934-1999) was a writer born in Jackson, Mississippi. Though he was just six months old when his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, that’s still enough of a claim to have a library …
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) is yet another author I’ve never heard of, yet found myself touring her house and gardens in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, so Doug had read The Optimist’s …
Hello new state (in the van) Louisiana! We had just a day to spend in the French Quarter, much of which was taken up with the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and food tours we …
