Road trips big and small, long and short. Day trips and vacations. Did I mention we like to travel?
We went to Decatur, Alabama for Memorial Day weekend to see the Balloons. We went here in 2007, and didn’t stay for all of the festivities because we had to be somewhere else. We’ve since found out that they do this event every year at Memorial Day. This year, the weather didn’t cooperate very will. … Read more
So… We made it home safely. Spent Friday night at Mom’s. Saturday’s drive home was pretty direct. It was only about 385 miles and weather was pretty good until we got close to the coast. Weather on the coast was pretty bad; there were 10 people struck by lightning on the beach. Ending stats for … Read more
Yesterday was a pretty short day, much like today will be. We left Omaha around 9:30 and it was an easy drive to St. Louis. Wasn’t really a lot of traffic but there were some lane closings here and there for construction. Today is the last official day of our vacation, we’ll arrive home tomorrow. … Read more
Starting to get a little tired of traveling… not too bad, was just a bit boring today when the scenery didn’t have too much variety… It got much more pleasant once we reached the Black Hills. We stopped in a Wal-Mart for souvenir playing cards for Nan’s collection and we were treated to watching a … Read more
We’re in Billings, Montana. We got here yesterday afternoon and we covered more ground in the shortest amount of time than any other time on this trip. Mostly due to the higher speed limit here, but also due to the fact that there’s not much here to see except big skies, lots of ranches and … Read more