It's not just travel...it's our lifestyle.
The more I volunteer for the American Red Cross, the more I learn about everything this organization does for the community. Recently, I was recruited to work on installing smoke alarms in homes that either have inoperable alarms or don’t have them at all.
I noticed that it’s World Elephant Day today, which started me thinking about our encounters with elephants through the years.
After several years of adventures, road trips, camping trips, and more than a few nights sitting by a crackling campfire, we’ve decided it’s time to find Blanche a new home…
As a high school and college student during the height of the Motown years, I was oblivious to the societal impact of the genre and its significance as a musical movement that transcended and overcame racial barriers. I didn’t care if the artists were black or white. I liked the music.
Here’s a new one for you: a holiday dedicated to a condiment. Really? I kid you not. August 5th is National Mustard Day, “a culinary celebration dedicated to mustard, one of the world’s oldest and most versatile condiments.” In fact, mustard is the most popular and widely used spice and condiment in the world, according to Wiki.
We love a good road trip. Occasionally we have a destination in mind, but more often we're reminded of the saying: "Roads were made for journeys, not destinations." If you're looking for inspiration for a summer adventure, here are some of our favorite journeys…
Have you visited your local library lately? We absolutely love the Clark County Library. I don’t know what we’d do without it.
I’ve found that no one guide has everything I’m after, so I’ve been carefully reading and vetting each guide I find, culling the information I want, and creating a personalized guide that fits our travel style.
Why has the Santa Monica Pier always been the traditional end of Route 66? It makes sense. Since it was built in 1916, the pier has been a place of celebration with a sensational backdrop of the Pacific Ocean sprawling endlessly over the horizon. After traveling 2,448 miles to complete the Mother Road, this definitely seems like ‘the end of the trail’. For sure, it’s a more dramatic and fitting…
While visiting the one-room school house in Goffs, California, we learned a number of new things, including how school children saluted the flag back then…
The driving distance between Needles and San Bernardino on US-66 is only about 212 miles and 3+ hours if you drive straight through without stops and assuming you don’t hit any traffic snags (or take wrong turns). Our mileage was a bit more since the route is not always signed well through several towns and significantly longer time-wise because… well… we never drive straight through and there…
July 20th is Peanuts’ Marcie Day, and I’m celebrating with my namesake. Over 70 distinct characters were introduced in the Peanuts comic strip during its 50-year run. My favorite, of course, was Marcie.
Had events unfolded just a bit differently, America's most famous highway might have followed another route entirely—or carried a number like U.S. 60 or U.S. 62. Here’s how it got the name Route 66…
We’ve stopped in Kingman a zillion times before on our way to and from US-40, and I’ve already written several blogs about our stops there, but we really never tire of seeing it all again. Plus, we’ve never visited Kingman as the first stop heading west on Route 66. We’re excited to be celebrating the Mother Road’s centennial birthday.
One road trip that’s always been on our bucket list over the years has been driving the entirety of Route 66 from beginning to end... Chicago to Santa Monica... but we’ve never managed it. This year, however, is Route 66’s 100th birthday, and it only seemed right to make this the year that we cruise along the Mother Road.
There are several ‘holidays’ to celebrate today. It’s National Kitten Day, Nikola Tesla’s birthday, National French Fry Day, and World Kabab Day among others. So much to choose from. I do enjoy wacky, weird holidays; the more obscure, the better - but Clerihew Day? What the heck is a Clerihew?
We took a long look at the available EVs in 2023, but didn’t buy. What’s different now and what did we eventually buy? Take a look…
Last Friday night, however, was spent celebrating in a different way. We attended a free presentation of What the Constitution Means To Me, “a semi-autobiographical play by Heidi Schreck that explores the personal and societal impact of the U.S. Constitution through the lens of four generations of women in her family.”
I’ve been reviewing some of our Camino photos, and there were some I didn’t use because they just didn’t fit in with the Camino route or the city we were visiting, or I didn’t have room in a particular blog for more photos. Cows, chimps, giraffes, bugs, lizards… what’s not to like?
It was 103°F (39.4°C) when we left Las Vegas, and the thermometer was continuing to climb. It’s been triple digits here for days, with more in the forecast. The highest temp so far this year? 109 °F a few days ago, and June is typically not the hottest month; July is. There’s not much to do about it, and we really can’t complain. We choose to live in the Mojave Desert, and deserts get hot in the…