So much to say about slow travel last week that I needed an entire new post to share my Harvest Hosts adventures along the way. As I said last week, my idea of slow travel adventures isn’t merely the places I overnight. I want to find road side attractions like I did during my first […]
Here it is. The final post from my three months in Branson, Missouri. It’s funny. Nearly every place I visit, I end up feeling like I didn’t do nearly as much as I could have or that I’ll have much to say. And, inevitably, it takes more posts than I imagine to fully cover my […]
Well, after the Branson, Missouri overview post and a post on the free things to do in Branson, now it’s time to move onto a couple of “everything else” posts. Today I wanted to share the other things I did in Branson that initially made my “free” things to do post. Technically, they are free […]
Last week I wrote a bit about the history of Branson and how this has been my least favorite place that I’ve visited so far, primarily because it’s too gaudy and high-priced—basically too commercial—for my tastes. Despite this, I was able to find fun things to do. And the cherry on the top was some […]
Despite the feature photo, I did not love Branson. In fact, of the places I’ve been so far, it’s my least favorite. Even so, I have a lot to share about what I learned, did and saw during the three months I stayed. My Alaska blood still hasn’t fully acclimated to very warm temperatures though […]
For 15 weeks during the summer of 1988, a few people went to a cornfield in Iowa to make a movie about baseball. So, I thought it fun that my visit coincided to the 30th anniversary of the making of Field of Dreams movie. The movie was released a year later. I remember seeing the […]