April 3rd & 4th, 2023 A sixty degree night led to bursting redbuds as we left Osage Cove and headed for Texas. We had not only found spring but we found summer temperatures today, very warm, close to 90 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. I even found myself wishing for a few clouds. We would get to […]

Sunday April 2nd, 2023 Such a beautiful morning. I got to lay in bed drink my coffee and watch the sun come up over the lake. Such a gift. A fisherman was launching his boat and the birds were singing. This lake has numerous rock jetties that allows people to really ”get out” into the lake to fish. Got in […]

Saturday April 1st, 2023 Semper Gumbi as my daughter likes to say…..always flexible. The plan was to drive across northern Missouri and Kansas and land in Marysville Kansas where we would camp in a park in town, go to a local gym, get a workout and a shower and then ride the Blue River bike trail the next day. The […]

Friday March 31st, 2023 To day was spent mostly on the road. We were headed to Koekuk Iowa. There was camping in a large parking lot right next to the Mississippi River. There was a very intense storm system that was heading across a large portion of the country. A major snow storm back in Grand Marais and severe thunderstorms […]

March 30th 2023 This could be our last pilgrimage to Texas. Amy and James are in the throws of moving to Florida. This move has been in the making for a couple of years. Circumstances have now pushed the moving date up from 2024 to 2023. We are making this trip with Sunday the van and also are pulling our […]

Friday November 11th, 2022 Our return trip was somewhat unremarkable. There was a big shift in the weather, turning wet, windy and cold. We drove mainly two lanes back to Michigan and routed through northern Louisiana, central Arkansas, western Tennessee/Kentucky snd southern Indiana. We scored a free campsite in northern Louisiana at the Corney Lake Recreation Area. This was especially […]

Cant get enough of the big sky in Texas.

It was a good two weeks just settling into the daily routine on the farm. Amy and Sarah are quite the busy bees. Chicken chores, poop patrol, brushing Twister, lunging Sparkles the stick horse and wrangling the chickens. Whew, I am exhausted just writing about it all. My favorite time was spent in the flower fairy garden with Sarah. Whether […]

October 30th-31st 2022 What a fun weekend! Everything on Amys farm has a name, from the chickens to all the equipment. Their little tractor is named Peanut and their new side by side is named The Raspberry. On Sunday we piled into The Raspberry and went trick or treating to the neighbors. Amy has done a great job of ”neighboring”. […]

Thursday October 27th, 2022 I always have to snap a shot of the state line and text it to Amy. That means we are close, although in Texas, close is subject to interpretation. We got an early start on the day for 2 reasons. The first being that I wanted to get out of the Red Rock Canyon campground asap. […]