One Couple’s Quest for Fun Kayaking, Cool Bike Trails and a Great Cup of Coffee
Interesting side trips including tours, museums, caves, gardens, even parks.
A three TWO hour tour When planning this trip and scouting interesting activities, I found a number of boat cruises and excursion. I settled on Island Time Sailing. They promised dolphins as well. So two weeks before our trip I did my due diligence and checked the weather. Rain on and off was predicted for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’d heard of the Boone Dinner Train and it had come highly recommended so when planning the South Dakota we got reservations online. We bought out tickets in April for the July date. We were told that the dinner sells rides sell out very quickly. We arrived a little early and took our time touring…