Our goal was to get as far south in the state as we could on this month’s trip since it would only be warm(er) for a few days. We had […]
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After leaving Springfield, Mo., we drove northeast to where the Mississippi joins the Missouri River. Our first stop was St. Louis where we had a number of side trips and then our first encounter with the Louis and Clark trip. A week later we drove north to Kansas City where we had more side trips and then our first “beyond Louis and Clark” stop at Fort Leavenworth, just across the Missouri River, at the Frontier Tribute Museum in Kansas.
Can’t wait to get further north along the Missouri where we’ll learn more about these 2 men, the Corps of Discovery, and their amazing adventures.
So why would we chose to spend January in Mississippi? Well, we didn’t have any doctors appointments on the calendar so our schedule was completely open. The one state in […]
Spending time with our Florida family is always a treat, especially when we can come south when the weather’s nice in the fall and spring. While we spent most of […]
After walking through the houses with our tour guide, we took off on our own to see Edison’s laboratories in one building and in one of Henry Ford’s specially made […]
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were great friends after spending time traveling together (post 13). Ford often visited Edison in Florida and finally bought a home next door so they […]
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I did not realize his (JD) home was intact after Katrina.
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