One Couple’s Quest for Fun Kayaking, Cool Bike Trails and a Great Cup of Coffee
The band, not on the interstate A bad 60’s music reference aside, the best description for the second leg to Panama City Beach would be traffic, coffee, traffic, coffee, then more traffic. I-65 was bumper-to-bumper at 80 mph. It reminded me of the old adage,”Either lead, follow, or get out of the way”. When traveling…
We had three events scheduled for Friday: a tour, a visit to the farmers market, and a show at the Opry Our walking tour started at 9:00am. I found this tour online and even though I wasn’t sure about it, it had great reviews. Nashville Underground Donut Tour. Really, who walks around downtown Nashville looking…
But first, Nashville We thought it best to break up our trip to Florida but an overnight stay in Nashville. We’ve done this before and it always seemed to work out. Starting out we needed some early caffeine. So we stopped at The Union Coffee and Ice Cream shop in Downs, IL. I think if…
This was going to be a big day as we were driving 1.5 hours to West Bend and another hour to Storm Lake then returning “home”. We headed out on Friday July 22 and stopped in Webster City at a very nice coffee shop for breakfast – Morning Glory Coffee. After breakfast, we drove to…
When I was very young, my parents took our family to Northwest Iowa to visit my mom’s relatives. While there, we took a side trip to West Bend to see a grotto. I did not remember much about this place but was motivated to visit again. Since David and I planned for our 2022 summer…
William Shatner was coming to Milwaukee WI in March so we jumped at the chance to see him. He’s 91, just went to space, and is a cultural icon. We’d seen his Shatner’s World show in 2019 and it was a two hours of great stories. On our drive through Wisconsin, we decided coffee was…
For most of the Iowa tour, we stayed at a centrally located Airbnb. Many of the out-and-back excursions were less than a two hour drive. Our general plan was to start driving to the destination, find coffee along the way then do the activities of the day, eat supper, then return for the night. This…
When we choose to visit the museum, we were not sure what we would find. Iowa is a really neat place but not really known for it’s rock-n-roll pedigree. Of course there is the famous accident that took Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly in 1959 at Clear Lake but not much else…
As we were traveling to start the day we stopped for coffee at Coffee Revolution in Davenport, IA. The shop is a little bit of a drive south of I-80 but easy to get to. The shop had lots of branding items and gifts. In fact it seems that if you are a regular, you…
Clear Lake, Iowa is a great place to visit. Lot’s of stores, restaurants and some good coffee shops. Also it has an very interesting historic site just outside of town. It is the location where Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valen’s plane went down on February 3, 1959. The site has a small…