Monthly Archives: July 2014

About thirty miles west of Dubuque sits the small town of Dyersville. Within that mailing address is the farm that until 2012 belonged to the Lansing family. Set your GPS to Lansing Road and drive until you see this sign: …

Pikes Peak in Iowa? A short seven-mile drive from the Effigy Mounds National Memorial you can find Pikes Peak State Park. To reach there you have to pass through the town of Marquette where you get to see this chap: You …

Today’s stretch of the GRR will take me from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Dubuque, Iowa. This is a distance of 119 miles by direct route and, assuming no diversions, only a slightly longer 130 or so by the GRR. In …

Seven-eleven. Would this be a lucky day? Possibly, though it certainly didn’t start auspiciously. Though she’d made me a delicious French toast breakfast Thursday, I had two reasons to skip Liz’s breakfast on Friday. First, I had a rather strange …

Let me get this out of the way right up front – the phrase “a night of disco” is a mild exaggeration meant to grab your attention but it’s true because the night, indeed, included disco. After driving over 3,000 …