This week we are staying at the Ingalls homestead; On The Banks of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder taking place in 1880 published 1939, the fifth of nine books.There were a lot of things to see and do on the Ingalls homestead here are a few of the things we saw and did. When […]
We didn’t make it in time to nab a spot at our planned First Come First Serve campground in Omaha, so we kept heading north while making some phone calls. We finally decided on a family run creamery in Larchwood, IA. A bonus of this stop is definitely the fact that now we get to
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While in Kansas City we have been finding fun mini adventures to fill our days. Today we headed into the city to visit the Steamship Arabia museum. This museum is dedicated to displaying the artifacts found when the Steamship Arabia was uncovered from its grave in a Kansas cornfield. The ship had sunk in 1856
This week we went to Mammoth Cave National Park. It was cool with the… wetness and the… people and the… smells and the lovely not air conditioning that felt like air conditioning. It was 90 🥵 something outside and it felt amazing to go into the the caves and to make it worse we had
On Friday we stayed at a farm. We didn’t have any hook ups, like water or electricity, but we only stayed for a day so it didn’t matter. We got to stay there for “free” because Mom and Dad pay for harvest host, which is something that allows us to stay at places like farms
Today’s adventure took place at the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens. We headed to Hannibal, MO, a small town located on the banks of the Mississippi River, to see the town he renamed St. Petersburg, MO for his books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We enjoyed learning about the real life people that inspired characters
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Last night we camped in Bonnie, IL at the Bernard Family Farm. The current workers are the 6th generation of the family that have been working this land. The farm grows hay and soybean and is becoming a fiber farm too. For their fiber farming they raise alpacas, three species of sheep and angora rabbits.
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We were optimistic that posting our planned route might lead to connections that we had not planned, and it worked! Natasha reached out after seeing that we were coming near enough to Nashville that we might be able to see each other. For those who don’t know, Natasha is a classmate of ours from the
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It is HOT here. We had plans last night to stay in a Cracker Barrel parking lot in order to break up our 7.5 hr drive between the NC mountains and Mammoth Cave, KY. We parked at the restaurant, received permission to stay through the night and developed a plan for the rest of the
This week we went to The Biltmore estate and property. On the Biltmore property we went Falconing. We got to hold, feed and fly a Harris’s Hawk named Sam Adams. We got to hold a 3 year old Barn Owl named Oskar. They also had a Peregrine Falcon named Pisgah and another Harris’s Hawk named
