Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
This stop on the road trip wasn’t actually in Kansas but in Oklahoma. We stopped at Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma off of Route 66. If you can imagine a soda flavor, they have it. Keltin and I aren’t big soda drinkers but we couldn’t resist creating our own six pack of interesting flavors. At night
Keltin and I had had a ton of fun exploring central Kansas but we wanted a few more adventures before getting home. Between a United States road atlas and a copy of The Kansas Guidebook 2 we mapped out our route home with some fun stops along the way. A GPS maybe able to tell
The volunteer who told us all the wonderful stories at the Kansas Motorcycle Museum suggested that we check out some other places in town after leaving the museum. One place he suggested was the Smoky Valley Distillery, it was past five though and we were unable to visit but it is on the list for
Visiting the Hill Country Lavender farm was one of the few spontaneous things that we did on our trip to Wimberley. We drove past it on the way to a state park for hiking and decided to stop by on the way back to the cabin. We did make sure to check the website for
Keltin and I had some downtime before we could check into our cabin so we decided to explore the main square in San Marcos. Many of the shops and restaurants were closed but the street art was still fantastic. INSTAGRAM│FACEBOOK│TWITTER│YOUTUBE
One of the things that I loved about Florence and Italy in general was the street artists. You can find them by following the music or the laughter. In addition to the performers and musicians there are painters and other artisans selling their work in the piazzas. I spent more money than I want to
Like I said in my original post about Eisenhower State Park, we didn’t get to do nearly as much hiking as we would have liked due to the trails being super muddy but we did get a bit in and the trails over looking the lake are gorgeous! The non-muddy portions of the trail were
Early last fall I made a list of local parks and nature preserves that might be worth visiting and as of the start of 2020 I had only managed to visit one: Fort Worth Nature Center. Recently I got the chance to visit a second: Prairie Creek Park. This is a small park with walking
Over the past few years since Keltin and I started dating I have been to Kansas a number of times. There are somethings that are true: there are a lot of cattle and a lot of wide open wheat fields that span from horizon to horizon. The towns are smaller and farther apart and it
Last year while at the International Balloon Fiesta Keltin and I “adopted” a little stuffed alpaca named Geoff (pronounced Jeff but his full name is Jeffery) – Keltin picked the spelling. Anyway, when Bear in unable to travel with us, we take Geoff. Being that he is our fluffy traveling companion he has to have
