Generally, I publish my adventure posts eight to 12 weeks after I leave an area. And that will be true for my time in the Portland area as well. But I took so many more photos than I’ll have room to include on the posts, I thought I’d do a sneak peek today. A photo […]
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 […]
After sharing the free adventures I found in Dubuque as well as the two museums I explored, it’s time to share my Crystal Lake cave adventure and a few things I learned along the way. In the first Dubuque post, I talked of how experiences break the stereotypes I hold of different places. In Iowa, I […]
Last week I shared my discovery of a few fantastic free adventures in Dubuque. This week I want to share my visits to two Dubuque museums. As best I can tell, I visited half the museums in Dubuque, a community of 60,000. Mathias Ham Historic Site It’ll be no surprise to longtime readers that I […]
One of the things I love about the RV life and traveling is the way it breaks my own stereotypes and preconceived notions about a place. I mentioned this in my visit to Texas. I expected one stereotypical thing, but found a much richer, fuller, more nuanced place. Texas, it turns out, isn’t all cowboys […]
Last week, I started the conversation about racism with a post about a museum I visited during my time in Middle Tennessee. Today, I share my other two experiences that fall into the same category. I said it last week but I think it’s worth repeating. My three stories of racism represent a very small […]