We look forward to this race every year in Iowa City, Iowa. It’s a challenging event-over 9 miles downstream. The river can be very different year to year. We also look forward to seeing family living in the Iowa City area. Sometimes they even come out to cheer us on! We left Friday and found…
Tag: Coffee
Our never-ending search for that great cup of coffee during out trips across the US. Our goal is to visit local or regional coffee shops and cafes. These are often times a little bit out of the way. And we only mention places that we enjoyed so if it’s listed, it’s worth a try-at least we think so.
Nooga Loop 6.7
Chattanooga Tennessee is an eight hour drive for us. That’s a little far for a race but this one looked particular interesting. So we thought we’d give it a try. The race was on Saturday so we headed out early Friday morning. Our first stop was one of our favorites, Joe Sippers in Effingham IL….
The journey home
We made our last stop in PCB at 7am at The Pour. In fact we actually had to wait a couple of minutes for them to open up. We bought two very large cups and put the coffee in our thermos. We took one last view of the nice courtyard/patio and we were on our…
Last days in PCB
We started the day at The Pour, again. It was beautiful outside so we sat on the patio soaking up the sun. Our primary activitiy today was kayaking. Powell Lake was about 45 minutes west and seemed like a good choice. Powell Lake is defined as a coastal dune lake. It’s fresh water but at…
Settling in to a routine at PCB
Our favorite local activities. We woke up to a beautiful morning, We headed to our new favorite PCB coffee shop, The Pour. But first we had to drive by Parlor Donuts to get there. For days we had been unable pass the donut shop without stopping. But today we wanted breakfast at The Pour so…
Monday at PCB
No, not that PCB. We noticed almost immediately upon our arrival that the locals referred to the town as PCB. This took a little getting used to because I remember in my younger days PCB’s (polychlorinated biphenyls) had a bad reputation. In Florida, it means something much better. Today we discovered Parlor Doughnuts-again, at Panama…
I like Traffic jams
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…
Nashville-Day 2
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…
Heading to Panama City Beach
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…
West Bend, Storm Lake, Kamrar July-2022
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…