Blogs from Kansas, United States, North America - page 8

I got a mid-morning start as I departed the Pine Grove RV Park in Greenwood NE for a week-long stay at the Tuttle Creek Cove Campground in Manhattan KS. I had selected Manhattan for my base camp because of its centralized location, unlike my circumstantial midpoint landing in Nebraska the previous week. I returned to Lincoln NE from Greenwood to head south on US 77. Near Beatrice NE, I made a stop at the Homestead National Monument of America. This National Park Service attraction is actually two separate facilities. A coin flip found me first visiting the Homestead Education Center which is the more artifact laden of the two. The Farm Implement Room has an awesome collection of well documented vintage agricultural equipment. One room of the center has an interesting exhibition of photographs of one-room ... read more

No likey the mornings. Sally went down to get breakfast and I stayed in the room to watch the sunrise from the opposite of my normal day. So entranced that I forgot to take a picture of it coming up over the historic water tower in Salina. Circa 1999. Sweet view!... read more

After logging 700 miles yesterday we headed out early this morning…almost in the wrong direction. Despite a blinding sunrise from, obviously, the east, I headed straight into it—until Marcia stopped me (on the entrance ramp to the highway) and pointed out I was headed home. Clearly underfed, she handed me the last donut from yesterday, insisted I guzzle some more coffee, and got me turned 180 degrees. Thank goodness she relies on maps, not gps, and a good sense of which way is which—as in, the sun rises in the east. (OK, I cannot help myself...she does not need no stinkin' GPS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ). We were back on MO36, a great road I highly recommend as it rolls through the driftless region from Hannibal and Cameron and covers some nice rolling terrain. (By the way, the NPR ... read more

Wow how time flies Here I am in Kansas City and wondering where the time went. It all seems to blend in. Anyway I hit Atlanta and the hotel I stayed in was walking distance from the hotel. In fact it is the same hotel Gaynor and I were booked into in 2003 and when we turned up then it was closed for renovation even though we had prepaid for it. So got to stay there this time and I set out to explore the city by foot even though it was 90+ in the shade. Went to the underground town(http://www.underground-atlanta.com/) for an explore. Not much different to my previous visit but still interesting that years ago they just built over the top of these streets as the city progressed and then discover later they have ... read more

At Last! We are on our way. We have a 11am flight to Chicago, then leave there at 4pm. We arrive in Dublin at 5am on Sunday and have a flight to Amsterdam that arrives at noon. All packed and ready to go. Two carry-ons that weigh in at 22lbs and then two daypacks. Have double thought every item, Bill has not!... read more