Every step into the State Historical Society of Missouri is an enriching experience. Yeah, I got the chhance to tell my story last year. But honestly, it’s more fun to learn. Last month was a photo essay recounting the Beatles’ … Read More
When a restaurant becomes more than a meal
Heading west on I-44, we hit a late-spring snowstorm that quickly turned the roads into a luge run. So we retreated to a town called Traveler’s Repose to let the snowstorm pass. Well, that was the name of the town … Read More
Runagroundabout
If your groundhog saw this, you’ll get six more weeks of stuck. A rare sighting of a runagroundabout somewhere in Harrison County.
Tragedy on the Big Island
We passed a rocky shore, the scene of two tragic events. On April Fools Day, 1946, a Tsunami smashed into this spot at Laupahoehoe, Hawai’i, killing 24 people, including nineteen schoolchildren. Eighty years earlier, a lifeboat crashed into this ragged … Read More
Reading The Good Badass Samaritan
Notable podcaster Josh Colvin invited me to read a story for his American Miles: A Roadtrip Podcast. If you’re in a hurry, my story, The Good Badass Samaritan, begins at 45:40. But if you have time listen to the whole … Read More
America’s Next Big Water Park
The location of Missouri’s next proposed water park may surprise you. It’s not in a resort or even a town. But it’s the doorstep to more than five dozen Missouri communities, and three quarters of the state’s population. A few … Read More
Pondhog Pondering
Pondhog Day is coming! Watch for the pondhog. If the pondhog sees her shadow, you have thirty seconds to put her back in the hole and slide off the ice before you fall in.
Acadian recipes
Dad traveled everywhere. So when he told us one of the most fun events he ever attended was a fais do-do, a Cajun dance party on a Saturday night deep in the bayous outside Lafayette, Louisiana, it stuck in my … Read More