First off, it's been a long time since the last blog, and it's not really Cody's fault, but he's going to get blamed anyway. So be it, I apologize. Second, this will be the last blog, since the trip is now over, and has been for a month. We had a beautiful drive through Tennessee, ending up in Pigeon Forge. We stayed at a hotel room (SOOO nice) and left early the next morning after our FREE pancake breakfast!! As we drove through the Great Smokies, some of the trees were just beginning to change color into bright reds and oranges. [View Full Entry]

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As we drove through Ohio on our way to Louisville, there was one place we had to stop for Grandpa Linscott: White Castle. Cody had never been there before, so we decided to give it a go. We ate our burgers as we drove from Columbus to Cincinnati. When we first drove in to Louisville, we (of course) got lost and headed west to Indiana. We finally got turned around, and found a spot to sleep for the night. The next morning we headed back in to town, where our first stop was to the Louisville Slugger Factory in downtown. The [View Full Entry]

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One of the good things about being back east is being close to the majority of my family. Not only did we get to visit my Aunt Lori and cousin Dan in Michigan, we also made stops at my Great Aunts' houses in Mansfield, Ohio and Sharon, PA. Additionally, we made it to Pittsburgh, PA, and saw my Aunt Karen and cousin Christian, as well as my Aunt Mary Beth and cousins Sophie, Anne Marie, and Lucy. But, first things first. After the Henry Ford, we headed south to Toledo (specifically Waterville) to show Cody where I was born and our [View Full Entry]

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As most of Tuesday (9/16) was taken up by driving to Detroit, we decided to get tickets to visit the museum for Wednesday, September 17. We were surprised, and very happy, to find that with a Verizon phone, the audio tour of the museum was free! Apparently, they have a deal set up with Verizon to allow customers to dial #THF (#843, 313-483-4098 for non-Verizon) and then enter individual item numbers to listen to the history of Henry Ford and pieces in his collection. It was great! So for anybody who wants to, we will include the item number with the [View Full Entry]

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This one is out of chronological order, you still have Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island, Michigan to come, but I wanted to put this one together now. For those of you who don't know, I have a thing for round rooms or turrets on houses. Someday it is my plan to have a house that has a super tall turret that I can turn into my library, with a huge ladder on wheels that I can wheel around the round room. Until then, I am constantly on the lookout. Mackinac Island was a fantastic place to get ideas for my future [View Full Entry]

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First of all, for anybody who was wondering about how my recent (09/23) job interview went, it was great! They said that I will hear back in 3 or 4 days. Yay! We headed east on Thursday, September 11, from Duluth across the top of Wisconsin and into the Upper Peninsula (UP) on Highway 2 to the 28. The one thing that we wanted to make sure to do while we were in Wisconsin was get some nice, fresh cheese curds. The one thing we didn't do while we were in Wisconsin was to get some nice, fresh cheese curds. So [View Full Entry]

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One of the neat things about our trip so far is all of the suggestions we have gotten on places to visit. Traverse City is one of those places, thanks to my dad and the people he works with. We arrived in Traverse City on Friday, September 12, at night. Because it was dark, we decided that we would put off the sight seeing until Saturday morning, but we did make a quick stop at Pangaea's pizza, where we got our food and drinks to go. After mooching internet from a local restaurant, we found a KOA about 15 miles south. [View Full Entry]

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One of Cody's good friend from La Junta, Liz Nicklos, now lives in Minneapolis, MN and since we had never been we thought this would be the perfect time to stop. Monday, September 08, we got up early, headed out to get some breakfast and up to the Mall of America to get our shopping on. First thing: the MOA (as we'll call it) is HUGE! They have everything there. We didn't know exactly where to start, so we just went up to the very top and circled our way on down and around. The first store we stopped at was [View Full Entry]

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Wall, South Dakota: gateway to the Badlands. More importantly, home of Wall Drug. To steal a saying from the 1000 Places to See book, "Like ZsaZsa Gabour, Wall Drug is famous for being famous." It all started way back in the Great Depression, when this small town drug store was struggling along with the rest of the country. In order to bring in more people, the owners got the bright idea to advertise along the nearby interstate that they had free ice water. Soon customers were flocking in, more than they could handle. So they expanded. They soon decided that more [View Full Entry]

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So we headed out of Cody around noon on Friday, September 5. The original plan was to hit Devil's Tower along the way. Unfortunately, we forgot to take into account the time change in which we lost an hour. In addition to being after Labor Day, and National Parks closing at earlier times, we arrived at Devil's Tower after it closed. We did see it from the highway, though. Cody got into a verbal altercation with a nasty female road construction worker, who was not doing her job in Gillette, WY, when he drove slowly past where she was standing with [View Full Entry]

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