You know that feeling you get when you spend hours upon hours in a car and you finally see the rest area sign? Sometimes you want nothing more than to just get out of the car and walk around for a few minutes. Even though rest areas are nice, we found the best place to […]
Wild West Road Trip: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in Iowa
And we’re off! Our first family road trip together. We have driven all day before to get to family, but never day after day after day for a family vacation because we usually fly to our destination. We started off our day at the German American Heritage Center, which is located in Davonport, Iowa. You know […]
Seattle Space Needle
Seattle was our starting and stopping point for our Alaskan cruise. We only had a limited amount of time there so we headed straight for the icon that Seattle is known for…the Space Needle. We decided to kill two birds with one stone, so we had dinner at Sky City restaurant while we took in […]
Traveling the world for spoons!
I got married quite young, which was very normal at that time in the south. We didn’t have very much money, but we already had a passion for travel. No money and wanting to travel aren’t a good mix! So we did what we could…we started small. We traveled within our own state. We stayed […]
Alaskan Cruise: Ketchikan’s Saxman Native Village & Lumberjack show
Ketchikan was one of my favorite stops on the Alaskan Cruise. It really summed up an “Alaskan” experience for me. When I think about who lives in Alaska, I think about the native people who have been there for so long and I also think about the rough and tumble folks who came for […]
Alaskan Cruise: Russians, Eagles & Native Alaskans in Sitka
In the 1800’s, Sitka, Alaska, was the cultural and political hub of Russian America. The town reflects on that fact in most of its tourist attractions. Several of Holland America’s excursions are about Russian History. I have some Russian ancestry, so I thought it would be interesting to learn more while I had the […]