In depth recounting of my global wandering
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 G R R 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 …
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 or what some might call clickbait but it is true because the night, …
Bad on me for getting a later than planned start (again!) Wednesday morning. Like each of the previous stops on this trip, the C’mon Inn offered a “complimentary continental breakfast.” In his new book Carsick, John Waters makes a comment …