2021 in-between times – part 9: December was busier than expected
When I started looking at our December pictures and wondered if the month deserved a blog post of its own, I was amazed at how much happened during the month:...
cooking on the road, the “best ever” foods we’ve found
At home and on the road, we usually cook a large amount of a couple of items to eat throughout the week so we don’t have to cook every night....
2020 blitz to the Northern Plains – visit friends on our Christmas card list and college memories
With Covid-19 restrictions affecting travel in the U.S., we decided to spend a couple of months in states where the virus hasn’t closed everything down, so we’re taking off to...
2020 North Dakota – part 1: Jamestown and a link to Kevin Costner
So what do we call a trip that takes us north close to the Canadian border and then a little west? The title we came up with is Northern Plains,...
2020 North Dakota – part 2: Jamestown and all you want to know about buffalo/bison and how to build a tipi
Jamestown’s city fathers wanted tourists to come to their city, so they made bison their marketing draw. In 1959, they commissioned a 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete giant to stand watch over Jamestown in...