Two icons along Route 66 point to a third. Sticking up like a wart on the flat windy Texas Panhandle, where dust is a commodity spread liberally along the armpit of Oklahoma, a leaning tower teeters, posing for shutterbugs intent … 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
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.
Ca c’est bon.
Sometimes we find pockets of peace in this troubled world. Driving west to Lafayette it was mid afternoon when we reached Baton Rouge. Along the Scenic Highway we found Bellue’s, a nondescript storefront we would have passed had Cheryl not … Read More
The world is a stage
The world is a stage. Or your oyster. Or both. Upon recommendation from Rhoda the concierge we tried a pair of new spots across from our Julia Street hotel: Happy hour at Rebirth was a jolly hootful awakening; we sang and … Read More