I Swear I Only Have Eyes For You
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…
Riley is no longer loved.
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…
The Heidelberg Project
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…
Harland Sanders Café and Museum
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…
Field of Corn
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…
The Sock Monkey Museum
As a kid, I only ever encountered a sock monkey once. I was unimpressed with the toy and found better things to play with. That changed when I visited the Sock Monkey Museum during our trip called Blown Away by Christmas in the Windy City.…
Ypsilanti Water Tower
I never felt so uncomfortable taking a picture as I did for this one. I am a bus driver, and the school board I serve has this excellent policy of having PD Days the day before a long weekend. This is great because it turns…
America the Beautiful
Life has a way of changing plans. I had to cancel our original summer vacation and discovered we could do it again. Because so many of the places we would visit in the first itinerary would be fully booked, I had to come up with a…
Falling Head Over Heals for Waterfalls
After an unusual hiatus from travelling, we will be venturing out to see a bunch of waterfalls. These natural wonders where one can watch water falling over some rocks were the first destinations we sought when we first discovered an entire world outside of our…