The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
We were settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a couple weeks around Doug’s jury duty service, and took a weekend trip around the Northeast corner of our home state. Let’s be honest, there is …
As we can’t help but mention repeatedly, we spent some extra time in our home state due to Doug being called for jury duty for a full month (of which he was called to serve …
The Porter Sculpture Park in Montrose, S.D., is regularly rated as one of America’s best roadside attractions. More than 60 large-scale metal sculptures grace the site, all created by local artist Wayne Porter. Porter himself …
We went to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota, hoping to get some birding in, but we didn’t do very well. I went in hoping that we would see some new lifers since is …
We spent a week or so around Madison, Wisconsin, parked up for much of that time at a campground in William G. Lunney Lake Farm County Park. The meadows and marshes in the park had …
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 …
Doug and I spent a few hours in the Morton Arboretum birding and enjoying the trees and flowers. Even though we walked a few miles, we only saw a fraction of what there is to …
We had to make an emergency trip home to New Jersey, so we naturally took some walks and tried to find new birds while we were in town.
Polly’s Pop in Independence was made using water from a local spring from 1923 to 1967. The brand was revived in 2016, and you can watch production on a vintage bottling machine through a glass …
Doug and I spent a few hours walking along the Bush Creek looking for birds, and oh, I, uh, didn’t realize that there were, um, gardens here, too? But we could just pop in for …
