A friend told us that if we were going to Nebraska we had to plan a stop at the Ashfall Fossil Beds. We are really glad he reached out to us! The fossil beds were discovered in 1971 when the jaw bone of a prehistoric rhino was discovered by a Paleontologist studying the geology in […]
Before arriving at the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD, we read By the Shores of Silver Lake as a family. It was wonderful to have that story fresh in our heads as we toured the town, but we quickly realized that we needed to start reading The Long Winter to understand some of the stories
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There are a lot of things to do in the rv. My favorite thing to do is play blackjack, but not everyone is a big fan of the game, so I don’t get to play it very much. We also play DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) quite often. It is a very fun game. I play
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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