Hi friends, Yesterday we departed from Holland, Michigan and headed towards Grand Haven to visit the Gerald Ford Presidential Library. It is only a 30 mile drive. We had programmed the library in the GPS and got very close before we discovered the roads were blocked. We went to the next exit and it was blocked too. So, we tried a third time and got close but again the road was blocked by police and other uniformed guards. Then we discovered what was happening. It turns out that Grand Rapids hosts the largest 25K road race in America and it was happening as we arrived. There was no way we could enter the city center. So, we found our way back to the freeway and headed west to Grand Rapids, about 35 miles. We were told ... read more

Well, it is now Thursday and we are still rolling. We got up this morning in Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio from Cincinnati. A friend, Debbie Ballew, recommended that we tour the Roebling Murals before departing. We are happy that we did. Very creative and informative. They are located close to where we were staying and never knew as we drove by that they were there. After this tour, we headed north towards Indianapolis. The roads were good and the landscape interesting. This is a rural state. We have never seen so much cultivated landscape. It is clear that only now have they been plowed and ready for planting. Much different in South Georgia. As we moved north from Ohio the land flattened out. We searched on-line for something to see in Indianapolis and found the ... read more

Hi, How much fun can two people have? We are finding out. Here's more from the Great American Road Trip. Today we had breakfast at our famous hotel, the Jailhouse Inn, in Bardstown, Kentucky. After breakfast, we got a tour of the facility. Turns out, this place was a jail since 1819. It was built with heavy limestone walls and looked impossible to break out. Only, once a couple of guys created a fake gun from soap and got away. We were lucky and just paid and left. We decided to make another unplanned stop on the way to Cincinnati. We drove up to Louisville to the Churchill Downs. Neither of us had been there before and decide to tour the facility. It did not eliminate the race from our bucket list at all. In fact, ... read more

Hi guys: We have finally kicked off our 2018 Great America Road Trip. We conceived this idea back in January when I closed the purchased of a new Acura RDX. We have a tradition of breaking in our new vehicles with a fun and exciting road trip. The first two were in Europe followed by trip to Massachusetts in 2016 in my new Nissan Rogue. I had many ideas for this trip including a drive all the way to Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore. Finally we decided that if we drove too far the return trip would be difficult. So, we decided on a North-South drive estimated to be approximately 2800 miles with visits to cities which we have yet to visit together in the past. Plus, our next door neighbors in Atlanta, Charlie and Sharon Trense, ... read more

Once again, we got up early to drive to Atlanta. But first, we wanted to cruise through our old neighborhood, the Green's at Lee's Hill. We lived here from the fall of 1995 until we moved to Brazil in the summer of 1997. It was fun to see how little things have changed there. As we were driving around, we stopped to speak to a man walking his dog. He told us that some of our friends were still living there. As we drove in front of our unit, I spotted a guy just inside his garage. It was our friend and neighbor, Gene Barlow. We had to stop. It has been 19 years since we moved. We have not seen anyone from The Greens since. But there was Gene and his wife, Shirley. They are ... read more