Nostalgia is a hard-to-describe feeling. Regardless of what one is referring to, remembering the past evokes warm, fond emotions. Whenever we are on a trip and able to be nostalgic, it really enhances the experience of the location. It is odd that as we age,…
A couple of years ago, we took our biggest trip to date. It was a trip to Alaska and back, with hundreds of stops in between. One of the places that we visited was Devil’s Tower. This iconic rock monument in Wyoming was impressive. It…
The All The Places We Have Been To Map shows that we have been to many places and met many new people while visiting all these locations. Numerous people. There are so many people, and estimating the number of new faces we have seen would…
Many people like to take souvenirs when they visit a place—a little memento of where they have been to help preserve the memory. On occasion, we want to take an interesting rock to bring home. However, a movie made this trend popular, and I have…
Detroit is only a four-hour drive from our home, making it the perfect distance for us to visit this area for a weekend escape. It was mid-April, and the main attraction for us was the opening of Greenfield Village, but like everything we do, there…
Something weird has happened to me when I take my wife on trips. An odd and often overwhelming sense of nostalgia fills me. This sentimental longing for the past, with positive feelings of emotion and even happiness, is happening more frequently. Only this year did…
Every year, 90 million acres of land in the United States of America are planted with corn. Corn is a vital crop used for food, animal feed, sweeteners, alcohol, fuel, plastic, and even medicine. Without corn, things will be very different in our society. The…
We love zoos. We love free zoos even more. But we did not love the parking. The cost of parking was as much as admission would have been at a regularly priced zoo. We were in Washington, DC, during the period between Christmas and New…
I have taken many pictures. I am fortunate to have Google Home, which displays my pictures daily. I have decided to share my albums with everyone. Many of the pictures have the location where they were taken. PICTURES FROM 2016 – 71 photos I did…
My very first post on this website was about our visit to a rock. Charlene, my beloved wife, was none too impressed that I was taking her to see a rock and expressed a lot of displeasure that we were wasting our time on it.…
