The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Nineteen sovereign Pueblo nations can be found in New Mexico today. Their ancestral lands once stretched into Colorado and Arizona, home to magnificent dwellings like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Despite centuries of colonization, Pueblo …
Think long and hard before you go to a Buffalo Bill site, because once you got to one, you’ll find you need to go to them all. Thus it was that shortly after visiting the …
Cheyenne is one of the state capital cities that is nowhere near the center of the state. It wasn’t even a dot on the map until the builders of the transcontinental railroad ended up there …
The Potter Sundry The Potter Sundry in Potter, Nebraska, claims to be the home of the Tin Roof Sundae. I’m not here to argue with any excuse for ice cream. It’s a small cafe with …
So I thought Buffalo Bill was a train robber or some other kind of wild west outlaw, but mostly didn’t think anything much about him at all. But that didn’t stop us from visiting the …
Pierre, S. Dakota, is a long way from everywhere. But it is in the center of South Dakota, which is why it won out over several other cities when the location of the capital for …
Another fun fact about James J. Hill that we learned from our visit to the James J. Hill House is the role Hill played in the biggest “short squeeze” in the twentieth century. Hill, with …
test Of course we went to the National Mustard Museum in Middleton (a western suburb of Madison). I can’t say it was very exciting–mostly a bunch of mustard jars from around the world to look …
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 …
The Washington Memorial Chapel is located in Valley Forge National Historical Park in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Though located within the park, the church and surrounding property is owned by the Episcopal Church. The chapel was …
